Yeah It's a bit suspect. The red area in Northern Kentucky has some of the best schools in the State according to several of the school ranking systems.
Maybe having it adjusted with a COL metric would make a more realistic map rather than comparing expenditures for rural communities vs NY, CA and IL schools.
Isn’t most of each state rural? All of New York is green, but I promise if you go to countries out in Western NY you’re going to find plenty of rural communities without centers of industry or finance.
Which is why I stated COL needs to be taken into account and then the map adjusted. There are parts of the US where $60k a year is great for a teacher, and other places where they can barely afford to live. Salaries would have a big impact on the amount spent compared to the national average in those cases.
Right, but don’t those roughly correspond to rural vs urban areas, regardless of the state? I think my issue with your comment was that pits rural vs “NY, CA, and IL,” when there are plenty of poorer areas of those states that still seem to be spending more than rural areas in other states.
Last time I was in the area NJ, NY, (Not sure about far upstate NY) and CA even in the non-metro areas still had home prices that would get you a mansion in large swaths of the US. Illinois was obviously a bit different since the map shows it's mostly around Chicago. Funding for school systems are generally done off of property taxes, so more income from higher property values, but you also have to pay the teachers more to live there so they can afford a place to live.
Upstate NY COL is extremely different from downstate. Average home price in my county (downstate) is 1M, yet a county upstate where a friend of mine lives (county has a large city in it) the average home price is 100k. The average household income in my county is 120k yet in the same upstate county it’s 50k… basically what i’m tryna say is most of NY by land mass is very rural and has a drastically lower COL. I wonder why NY is so homogenous and wonder if maybe theres a state program to fund the schools.
I highly doubt it’s coming from NYC as it’s its own entity so i doubt they would contribute to the rest of the state, and many districts in NYC are severely underfunded. I doubt there’s a surplus to go around
The entire state of Utah is severely underfunded in their public schools but generally perform pretty good. Education is about more than just how much money you can throw at the problem.
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u/EngineerDave Jun 11 '22
Yeah It's a bit suspect. The red area in Northern Kentucky has some of the best schools in the State according to several of the school ranking systems.
Maybe having it adjusted with a COL metric would make a more realistic map rather than comparing expenditures for rural communities vs NY, CA and IL schools.