Lastly, the political context of education is very different, especially in public education. (educationworld.com)
In other words, it explains why there are extremely bad districts; but not why there are «good» districts; (2) Stating that funding is needed to address poverty - even when true - is misleading in context of education funding; most of the cost of which has nothing to do with feeding poor kids; (3) Experiments shown that throwing money at that problem don't help nearly as much as projected (e.g. Camden, NJ). (politics.stackexchange.com)
With regard to the larger context of education reform, ATE voted at their Delegate Assembly in Las Vegas to support the repeal of the Dickey Amendment. (ate1.org)