Most school resources come from property values,
so affluent districts have more money to spend on students.
Much of local school funding comes from property taxes, and
so affluent districts can afford better schools.
Not exact matches
District 4 parents have even gone
so far as to accuse the school of deliberately keeping local families away in favor of more
affluent ones from other
districts via a manipulated waitlist.
So if a
district has two high schools — one serving mostly
affluent white students and another serving mostly poor and minority students — those schools had better offer a similar number of AP courses, lest the OCR come knocking on their doors.
Why racial achievement gaps were
so pronounced in
affluent school
districts is a puzzling question raised by the data.
We live in a rental in a very
affluent area,
so that the last 2 at home could go to one of the best public school
districts in our state.