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Because their schools are financed by local property taxes so if everybody around you isn't rich, your public school is poor and bad.

• tbrownaw 3y ago
  Check out figure four here: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cma/public-school-revenue https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cma/public-school... Only five states get more than half of school funding from property taxes.
  • scotty79 3y ago
    "On a national basis in 2019–20, revenues from local property taxes comprised 37 percent of total revenues for public schools." Schools often operate on a shoestring budget. 30% more or less often makes a difference between decently founded school and a disaster. I don't think you can deny that local property taxes funding shapes US education and its perception.
    • tbrownaw 3y ago
      Maybe if state and federal funds were allocated without regard to how much local funding there is, but that's not actually how it's set up.