I was surprised to find that (a) is not correct in many school districts. First, many poor schools are heavily subsidized by the state. Second, somehow there are tons of awful schools with decent funding.
Just click through [1] for example. The very first school on the list [2] has funding of $14k per student. This is way above national average. And that's NM - not the most expensive state in the world.
As for (b) - wouldn't it apply equally to both good and bad schools?
> The very first school on the list [2] has funding of $14k per student.
The problem is that, according to the Gates Foundation, $14K is about the minimum point at which you start to have a functional classroom (and that study was about 10 years ago, now, so the number is higher)
As for (b) - wouldn't it apply equally to both good and bad schools?
[1] https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-school-districts/?page...
[2] https://www.niche.com/k12/d/bernalillo-public-schools-nm/