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This series focuses on the discrepancies in school funding among the 537 schools examined by the magazine. They found a range of $2,200 to $8,600 in per-pupil funding for elementary schools;the range was $5,400 to $16,800 at the high school level. They also found that magnet schools who had selective enrollment practices and schools with better-off students tended to get more than their fair share. They used a tool they obtained from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform to analyze school district resources.