As just one example, the system of funding schools from local property taxes means that affluent areas have nice well-funded schools and impoverished areas generally don’t.
State and federal funding actually make up for the difference these days:
Considering federal, state, and local funding, almost all states allocate more per-student funding to poor kids than to nonpoor kids, though only a few—Alaska, New Jersey, and Ohio—are highly progressive. A handful—Nevada, Wyoming, and Illinois—are weakly regressive, and the majority have a weakly progressive distribution of funding to poor versus nonpoor students.
Note: There are a variety of reasons we might want school with poor students to get more funding, but that’s a different question than whether they get less funding right now.
State and federal funding actually make up for the difference these days:
https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-get-fair-share/
Note: There are a variety of reasons we might want school with poor students to get more funding, but that’s a different question than whether they get less funding right now.
Ok thanks for the correction. I’ll pick a different example next time.