That's an incredibly simplistic view and betrays own biases. For example, point 1 could better be described as "per capita state spending" and that completely

That's an incredibly simplistic view and betrays own biases. For example, point 1 could better be described as "per capita state spending" and that completely annihilates your point. In the same way, for point 2, you would have to calculate the percentage of funding change per student, not the macro view alone.