> Are roads in wealthy neighbourhoods repaired on a different schedule than poor neighbourhoods too? School budgets are a small part of the effect, if any. Typ

> Are roads in wealthy neighbourhoods repaired on a different schedule than poor neighbourhoods too? School budgets are a small part of the effect, if any. Typically (at least around here) teachers in good districts are paid substantially less than in bad districts, and per-student spending is often lower in good districts than bad. As far as I can tell the good-district/bad-district effect is caused by a series of self-reinforcing loops, one of which is that schools full of the kids of parents who both can and will spend more on housing to be in a good school district tend to be better because they're full of those kids. [EDIT] I took your question about roads to mean whether, broadly, rich areas receive more government spending than poor areas, which is sometimes true for some things but does not seem to be a major driver of school inequality AFAIK