The other school funding divide: States with more poor students tend to spend less, creating hard-to-fix disparities

The image of school funding inequities in the American mind is often urban schools serving predominantly low-income students of color going without, while just miles away, suburban schools serve more white, affluent students in gleaming facilities with an army of college counselors.

Those “savage inequalities,” as they were termed in a prominent 1991 book, certainly still exist in some parts of the country. There’s another key driver of school funding inequity, though, one that is harder to see and might be harder to fix: massive differences in spending between states.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2019/07/31/school-funding-states-research-inequality-edbuild-23billion/