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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Poking around the data, it’s not clear if that’s the case. Public education funding in places like New York and D.C. is actually quite high. Though disparities might be more evident if we zoom right down to the level of counties.

https://www.businessinsider.com/stat...schools-2020-9

Meanwhile, some states with the lowest educational attainment and spending, like West Virginia and Idaho, have lower than average crime rates.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...ls/1079181001/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...the-us-states/

The problem is that public schools don’t seem to be as effective at fixing social distress and dysfunction as we would like.

I think what it might come down to is whether these schools have sufficient funding for quality extra-curricular/after-school programs. I'm not going to go searching for it, so feel free to dismiss it, but I do remember seeing studies that correlated these programs with better outcomes for students.

I do agree that it's hard to make an apples to apples comparison because you also have to factor in population sizes into the funding equation.