Funding for New Jersey's low-income school districts tumbled in the most recent recession, and the Abbott districts — a group of poor urban districts that for almost two decades received special appropriations from the state — were hit especially hard. A comparison with the state's other...

Funding for New Jersey’s low-income school districts tumbled in the most recent recession, and the Abbott districts—a group of poor urban districts that for almost two decades received special appropriations from the state—were hit especially hard. A comparison with the state’s other...