Well it's a bit complicated. Schools being funded locally means that a lot of that spending comes from a state or federal level and is 'required' to have variou

Well it's a bit complicated. Schools being funded locally means that a lot of that spending comes from a state or federal level and is 'required' to have various strings attached to it. So quite a bit of the money that comes in can't be used to say buy more desks or hire an exterminator or fix the AC. It has to be used to buy say SmartBoards or iPads because !technology! and !STEM!, a couple years back for instance my mom was issued an iPad and told to integrate into her teaching. One iPad in a class of 30+ teaching English. With ~100 teachers at the school though that'll show up as ~50,000 dollars worth of spending and it'll do jack all squat.