If your school is determined by your location, the houses near a great school become prohibitively expensive. That makes them as economically exclusive as priva

If your school is determined by your location, the houses near a great school become prohibitively expensive. That makes them as economically exclusive as private schools while keeping all the tax subsidies of a public school. I don't think San Francisco's solution is a particularly good one, but I do think it's a legitimate problem.