re: #86 Rightwingconspirator

The next paragraph is good, too:

Third, school system quality, indexed by NAEP performance, is correlated with higher property values generally; therefore all residents in a community benefit from strong schools. The direct positive correlation between school taxes and property values is also proved. This positive correlation between local tax per housing unit and property values suggests that most of America is under-investing in public education.

But definitely the paragraph you cited shows another problem: Even if we increase state funding, the neighborhoods themselves are still going to be impoverished. The wealth inequity growing in our country means that there’s a lot of places where this would be true, where spending would be less effective because it’s not local. There are two ways to solve the inequities of the property tax base: one is to supplement with state and federal money, which is less effective (but still highly effective, as shown by this study), and the next is to increase the wealth in those communities—or again, why Ta-Nehisi Coates is a smart dude.