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Pretty much the rest of the country has awful public schools. Every large city has a few good ones and a number of less than wonderful ones. I think a meaningf

Pretty much the rest of the country has awful public schools. Every large city has a few good ones and a number of less than wonderful ones. I think a meaningful separation point might be the cost of living and more specifically the taxes raised from housing. If you have houses with an average price of $1M and houses with an average price of $300k, in the latter a public school system would simply have less to work with.

HALtheWise 4y ago
This gets brought up a lot, but in (all? most?) US states the additional state and local funding that goes to low-income schools more that makes up for the decreased local property tax revenue. That manifests as a negative correlation between affluence and per-pupil spend, and (at least in Ohio where I grew up) a negative correlation between per-pupil spend and various measures of academic success. I wish people would look up the data on this sort of thing before confidently making claims. https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-get-fair-share/ https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-...