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when you look at averages on a state level it appears this way, but locally in cities you can see significant disparities within the same school districts based
by micromacrofoot 8mo ago
when you look at averages on a state level it appears this way, but locally in cities you can see significant disparities within the same school districts based on zip codes — there are public schools in Boston and NYC that have endowments larger than the total budgets of a dozen other schools combined
- like_any_other 8mo agoThe study [1] doesn't look at state-level averages, but uses school-district-level funding and demographics data. > there are public schools in Boston and NYC that have endowments larger than the total budgets of a dozen other schools combined Table 1 from the study also includes funding standard deviation data (the "SD" column). The highest one is $765, meaning that 99% of schools are within 3x that amount around the mean. There may be outliers like you say, but they are statistically irrelevant. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858419872445 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...