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> Higher-income households reside in distinct neighborhoods and send their children to better schools than low-income households.

But state and federal funding supplements local tax school funding to achieve approximately equal funding per pupil, and the US is 4th in the world (behind only Luxembourg, Norway, and Iceland) in per-student primary education spending [1]. So what makes those schools "good"?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/238733/expenditure-on-ed...

parent SenAnder 2 years ago

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