Govt. schools just can't get enough

First is this great post from Dr. Russ Roberts today.

Cafe Hayek: The tragicomic state of public education: "Are your local property taxes too low? Feel like the public schools aren't getting enough funding? After all, spending per student has only DOUBLED over the last 40 years and increased almost every year for the last 25 years or so. But we know it's not enough. Well now you can make a difference. You can contribute even more than what you're forced to contribute through your property taxes. At DonorsChoose.org, you can help the cash-starved public schools finally get the resources they need! This is not from the Onion ..."

Next is this piece from City Journal. Why should some school districts be allowed to have more money/resources than their neighboring districts? What about neighboring states? Countries?

Are Poor Students Worth More? by Nicole Gelinas: "New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein has seized on a popular reform idea for the nation’s largest school system: “fair student funding,” a new formula for allocating taxpayer resources among Gotham’s more than 1 million students. Klein believes that spending more money on the system’s lowest-performing pupils will make a huge difference in their performance. But “fair student funding” could erode support for public schools among taxpayers and parents."

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