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 across the district are required to attend several professional development workshops every single 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 personally found this year's tests harder than the ones in previous years.
- The state's standardized tests are administered to students just once each year, near the close of the spring semester.
- The new funding was so generous that it placed the district among the very best-resourced school systems in the entire state.
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