An official revealed in July that more than a quarter of bursary applications from impoverished students are turned down.

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The New York City lawyer who helped win a landmark court ruling in 2006 that ordered billions of dollars more spent on schools has been quietly building a new case to show that even after more than a decade of litigation, the state still may be failing its most impoverished students.

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Impoverished, low-income areas are going to produce low-achieving students, generation after generation.

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