[juve1996]

We have very clear evidence money solves a lot of problems. Why doesn't it work here? It works everywhere else in our capitalist economy.

In any case the difference is quite clear. If a school in a rich suburb doesn't get much federal money than, say, a inner city school, that gets a lot. That rich suburb already has money. They obviously wouldn't get further funding - but are likely much richer?

[streptomycin]

The numbers I cited before were total $ per pupil from all sources.

[juve1996]

The numbers you cited also have a citation that leads to a 404 and are only for 1 year, in one specific state. Hard to draw any reasonable conclusion from that.

[streptomycin]

NJ has been doing it for decades, the Wikipedia article gives a pretty good overview. There's similar programs in other states, and many examples of poor/bad schools that get tons of funding. Such as basically every major city in the country.

Possibly entire states and nearly every city for decades is not enough time, success may be right around the corner!

[juve1996]

Again, I'm just asking for actual data, I'm not invalidating your claim, I'm asking for real support of it. I pointed out the Wikipedia article's citation links to a 404 - so I can't even validate (nor did you.) You've just accepted your premise, and what I've found is, "success is never around the corner" for those who have already made up their minds.

Good luck!

[streptomycin]

Actual data of what? The Wikipedia article talks about of different things and links to a lot of different things. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%252C31&q=a... are plenty of papers about the Abbott districts, it's been going on for decades, and that's just about NJ, similar things have been done many places. And not even all by the government. Zuckerberg gave $100 million to Newark, Bill Gates tried a bunch of stuff, but I haven't heard much from them lately, maybe they reached the same conclusion after seeing what their money achieved.