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Public schools learned Wednesday that their monthly payment from the state of Oklahoma would be shorted by an additional $6.8 million, bringing the total reductions since January to $93.4 million.

The Oklahoma State Department of Education sent out a memo Wednesday ahead of Thursday payments to local schools notifying them that state revenue collections continue to fall short of expectations in both the 1017 Fund and the Common Education Technology Revolving Fund.

Those are two revenue streams that feed into state aid for common education, the primary source of state funding for public schools. All but 37 school districts — whose local tax revenues exceed the amount at which they would qualify — receive state aid.

Officials at the state Department of Education have predicted that payment reductions would be necessary in May and June, the final two months in fiscal year 2017.

In Oklahoma, state aid to local schools includes money from six sources: the General Revenue Fund; the Common Education Technology Revolving Fund; Education Reform Revolving Fund, commonly referred to as the 1017 Fund; Mineral Leasing Fund; Oklahoma Lottery Trust Fund; and the constitutional reserve fund, which is also known as the Rainy Day Fund.