His high school was in one of the country's worst school districts with a 40 % dropout rate, he says. (businessinsider.com)
Yet they were starting from the bottom; New Orleans was the second - worst school district in the nation's second - lowest - ranked state. (nytimes.com)
The conclusion from my answer is that increasing funding to bad school districts above a minimum baseline level would NOT cause them to catch up to the good districts, because that would not address the underlying socioeconomic disparity differences of populace. (politics.stackexchange.com)