> Funding comes from local property taxes so rich neighborhood get more money, poor ones get less. I used to think so too, but I don't think that is exactly th

> Funding comes from local property taxes so rich neighborhood get more money, poor ones get less. I used to think so too, but I don't think that is exactly the case. School districts usually span many neighborhoods, rich and poor. Within school districts, there are school zones (school boundaries), or mappings of residential addresses to assigned schools. While it's true that richer neighborhoods tend to have better schools, the property tax money is collected centrally at school district level, and then distributed across schools, both rich and poor. I haven't seen evidence that districts distribute more money to schools in richer neighborhoods. If anyone is more knowledgeable on this, I would love to learn more.