[15thandwhatever]

It tends to be a negative correlation.

In the Northeast US, you'll generally see the best performing districts have a lower amount spent per child than the underperforming districts.

The underperforming districts will have higher property taxes (as a result of the higher education cost). This generally leads to parents seeking to move to a different school district for financial and educational reasons.

In education, at least, more money does not equate to better students, but instead, more mismanagement.

[forgotpwtomain]

> It tends to be a negative correlation.

This definitely needs a citation. It might not have significant correlation either way, but I cannot find a reference for the former (some cursory googling [0][1]).

[0] https://www1.udel.edu/johnmack/research/school_funding.pdf [1] https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa746....

[douche]

Special education students are more expensive to educate than bright students.

You give a gifted student a $100 book and let them get after it.

You give a troubled behavior student with multiple LDs a full-time ed tech at $30k per year salary minimum, or whatever else is required, by federal law, to fulfill their IEPs.

[15thandwhatever]

Ugh, I didn't stop to consider the special education component (and its cost). That's my bad.

This reminds me of a similar theory in regards to affluent towns with low taxes that have minimal social programs, that "export" their elderly to nearby cities with higher taxes but have programs such as Paratransit and Meals-on-Wheels.