Torrington School Superintendent Chris Leone has provided further explanation and data on the Title 1 funding cutoff at Southwest School that we wrote about this morning.

CLICK HERE to read Leone's blog entry on the topic. He points out that the Title 1 issue has been known for some time, and mostly relates to changing demographics at the school.

He says the "size of the headline" in this morning's Register Citizen may have made it seem like a more urgent or recent phenomenon.