Milwalkee riots

[A Theist]

Schools here are funded by property taxes raised in the district they serve. Schools in poverty-stricken areas have less money to work with, because real estate values are lower in their districts compared to wealthier neighborhoods. What that means is that poor folk here get less of precisely the resource they need most to break the cycle of poverty.
And because minorities in America typically make less than whites, that means they live in disproportionately poorer neighborhoods, meaning they receive comparatively poorer educations, meaning they don't have as much access to higher paying jobs, meaning that they live in ...

Schools here are funded by property taxes raised in the district they serve. Schools in poverty-stricken areas have less money to work with, because real estate values are lower in their districts compared to wealthier neighborhoods. What that means is that poor folk here get less of precisely the resource they need most to break the cycle of poverty.

In the state that I live schools aren't solely funded through just property taxes. The state also kicks in a good portion of the funding, although not as much as is received through property tax levies, but still a good portion. The federal government also kicks in a little money as well. In our school district better than 75% of its funding expenditures go to salaries and benefits packages for district employees. The rest of the 25% goes to various other expenditures. Very little left over for text books, computers, and other learning materials for the students. A few years ago our state offered matching funds for each district that passed a bond issue, which goes to building new schools and for maintenance and upkeep of its buildings. We also had an incident a few years back where a large school district  falsified student records to get more funding from the state. Needless to say the district superintendent and other district officials lost their jobs. Also in our state, if a student leaves the public school system and goes to a charter or private school, the school district which the student lives in still gets the money from property taxes, only the state money follows the student. That means the district is getting money for a student that doesn't attend its schools. Funding variables for schools are different from state to state in this country.