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Such a plan would end years of disputes over state financing disparities between suburban, rural and city schools, but would have to comply with a State Supreme Court ruling that has demanded equality between poor and wealthy schools.

The study showed that while the financing disparities grew in nine states, the gap between high- and low-poverty schools nationally shrank to $966 per student, from $1,139 per student in 1997, or 15percentt.

The financing disparity rankles Mr. Pilla.

State officials and leaders of AIDS service groups say the financing disparity stems not from discrimination, but from politics and the history of the disease.

"Nationwide, school finance disparities continue to seriously undermine the mission of this country's public schools," the report reads.

But because equalizing current financing cannot address disparities built up between rich and poor districts over time, and because discrimination suits have faded with the end of legally sanctioned segregation, the latest wave of cases has begun focusing on conditions and programs, not money.

Investigations by the Observer, based on detailed analysis of all councils' finances, show massive disparities in the ability to use council tax to offset central government cuts.

But Mr. Finn said he was surprised to see that in 26 states, including New York, state money aggravated disparities in financing between rich and poor districts, and white and black ones.

The bill provides a 20percentt increase for Title I, the principal federal mechanism for evening out disparities in financing high poverty schools, with new rules that tie increases to the poorest classrooms.

To some degree, the disparity in financing reflects a historical reluctance by Congress to expand the judiciary, said Eric E. Sterling, president of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, a Washington group that studies issues like drug policy.

We outline the implications that heavy reliance on personally financed services and economic disparities in overall services use has for disabled older Americans and their families.