SAN DIEGO — The San Diego school board is set to decide how to distribute federal anti-poverty funds on Tuesday, continuing a heated debate that has divided teachers, parents and their elected representatives.
The board appears poised to reverse a decision made last year to raise the school poverty threshold for distributing federal Title I funds. Trustees all but decided to rescind that vote on Nov. 8.
Under a proposal from trustee John Lee Evans, the San Diego Unified School District would continue to distribute the funds on a sliding scale to schools where at least 40 percent of students qualify for free lunch. Schools with the highest rates of poverty would get the most money, as
