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U.S. Claims Maine Bilked It On Migrant Kids

BANGOR, MAINE (CN) - The Maine Department of Education and Portland Public Schools "grossly overrepresented" the number of migrant children in Maine public schools to get $3.8 million in federal funding it did not deserve, the United States claims in Federal Court. It says Maine knew what it did was wrong, and called its practice "creative recruiting."

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