easy · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A school district significantly increased its per-pupil funding to improve academic performance. However, standardized test scores in the district declined over the next three years.
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the decline in scores despite the increased funding?
- Teachers in the district are required to attend professional development workshops every summer.
- Rather than spending on instruction, the district poured most of the new money into building an elaborate sports complex.
- Many students in the district reported that they found the tests to be more difficult than in previous years.
- Standardized tests are administered once a year in the spring semester.
- The new funding was so generous that it placed the district among the best-resourced in the entire state.
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