The disparity in the northeast is also more pronounced because blacks are concentrated in innercity schools that are deeply underfunded. The Buffalo School District my brother works and went bankrupt and taking over by the state. The conditions have slightly improved, but the teacher pay is still much lower. Even within that school district the “Good kids,” or smart kids, are taken out of the underperforming schools and put into magnet schools. This segregation is bad for the underfunded schools. It warps the perception of the worth and value of children within those schools. It speaks to them as being less than. The white suburban schools are geographically segregated by class, and so all the tax money from the houses goes to the schools, making them super funded in comparison. I’m not aware of any other country that has still such a segregated system of taxing schools locally and not distributing taxes on a per student basis nationally.
The decision structure behind this American funding system is uniquely and based on white racist attitude and negative perceptions and doesn’t portray a generosity of heart and striving for an ideal of equality, but of against it. If you were to judge a country as being democratically robust by its school funding equality system of taxation and spending, we would fall some near the very bottom. It’s too bad our judgement of democracy is not done by our actions but by repeated slogans and repetition that “we” are a democracy just because “we” say so.

Thanks for continuing to raise awareness on the vast injustice, inequality, and ant-democratic funding that has become normalized and labeled the opposite of what is: not “for all.”