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Those figures never weigh parental wealth, income, and credit access.

• thaumasiotes 6y ago
  What adjustment are you thinking of making? If you want to bump up the Beverly Hills per-student spending by assuming parents in Beverly Hills spend money on their students that doesn't show up in the school budgets, you still have to give up on the idea that "funding from local property taxes is the reason schools in the south side of Chicago are doing worse than schools in Beverly Hills, full stop". Unless, of course, you're proposing to prohibit parents from spending money on their own children, as some people in the US actually have. The analysis would fail anyway, though; spending on students (by parents) is also negatively correlated with student performance within families. Parents seek to bring low-performing children up to the level of high-performing children more than they seek to boost their high-performing children further.