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> Only half of school funding comes from local taxes. That still leaves a lot of wiggle room for school revenues, and a lot of influence on those revenues (and
by yellowapple 6y ago
> Only half of school funding comes from local taxes.
That still leaves a lot of wiggle room for school revenues, and a lot of influence on those revenues (and, correspondingly, student education) by residents' economic class.
And further, just because the state/federal spending is "targeted to level the differences" doesn't mean it actually does so.
- refenestrator 6y agoAs a general rule, minority-heavy urban districts spend ~2x the $/student than middle-class white exurban districts in the same state. Definitely true in MA. Go check the numbers for your state, maybe it's an outlier, I don't know. Money goes less far in the city and they have more issues to deal with, but the $/student is not "inequitable" to borrow a word.