> the ultra-ghetto urban public schools here have money upon money, and yet the teachers do not get funds directly Any statistics or citations to back this up?

> the ultra-ghetto urban public schools here have money upon money, and yet the teachers do not get funds directly Any statistics or citations to back this up? In my experience, one cannot characterize thousands of schools this way because they have different governance and spending formulas across states, county lines, city limits, and even multiple districts within cities (which is especially true in urban cities).