A judge has ruled that 19 public schools should receive state aid for which they qualified as “persistently struggling” institutions as determined by state education officials, even though nine are no longer on the Education Department’s academic warning list.

Albany state Supreme Court Justice Kimberly O’Connor decided the schools were promised the state funding under a two-year program approved by the legislature in April 2015. In her Dec. 28 ruling in Cortes v. Mujica, 5102-16, she directed the aid to be dispensed now.

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