This is true. There are safeguards (that are currently failing) that my program would engage:

- The state is legally required to provide those kids with an education.

- There is funding allocated to help those districts.

If "we will not pay you if the kids do not learn" means there are zero schools in those districts then (1) the state government will get sued for not doing its job (because closing 100% of the schools makes the failure objective and obvious) and (2) it will have to update those funding formulas so that it is possible for some school (state run, or private) to break even while providing an education in those areas.