Inter-district magnet schools receive additional state funding — $7,085 per suburban student and $3,000 per city student — in an attempt to recruit enough students to racially desegregate across town ...

Christopher Peak Photo Tamiko Jackson-McArthur: This isn’t over. The state has blocked New Haven Public Schools from making any substantial changes to its inter-district magnet program. An official ...

Of the 18 magnet-school plans reviewed by the state auditors, Capital Prep was the only school to have such a provision.

A New Britain student attending Hartford’s Classical Magnet, for example, costs the state $12,000 in the magnet subsidy, $1,400 in busing costs and counts for another $6,733 in New Britain’s ...