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by milliondollar 1751 days ago
I would welcome you to move to VT, which has had fully state based funding since 1996 or so. The outcome has been decidedly mixed.

One clear thing that has happened is every student is getting a lot of money spent on them! (~$19k). Spending has increased substantially. There is a lot of waste. Despite losing 30% of students since that time period due to demographics, the number of teachers has actually increased. Staff to student ratio is 1:4.

But performance has not changed, and has actually gone down a bit if you squint at the numbers.