With enrollment and funding dropping in rural school districts across Educators are left with another challenge: find money to school the students who remain.

Indianapolis Public Schools is struggling to compete with charter, private and township schools in the battle to attract students. For the third year in a row, the city's largest district is bracing for yet another decline in enrollment.

An email Chalkbeat obtained from the U.S. Department of Education to the Indiana Department of Education says the state incorrectly applied provisions of federal law when determining this year's Title I poverty aid for charter schools.