Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency

Re:Suburban school district uses license plate readers to ve... by micromacrofoot on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:17PM (#47353116)

Tying property taxes to school funding is designed to cause this outcome, it's not a mistake. The majority of US history involves actively harming the poor through policy.

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Re:Suburban school district uses license plate readers to ve... by like_any_other on Thursday March 12, 2026 @05:17PM (#47357253)

A common myth - federal and state governments supplement school funding to roughly equalize per-pupil expenditure. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357203

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Re:Suburban school district uses license plate readers to ve... by micromacrofoot on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:03AM (#47364621)

when you look at averages on a state level it appears this way, but locally in cities you can see significant disparities within the same school districts based on zip codes — there are public schools in Boston and NYC that have endowments larger than the total budgets of a dozen other schools combined

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Re:Suburban school district uses license plate readers to ve... by like_any_other on Friday March 13, 2026 @01:01PM (#47366923)

The study [1] doesn't look at state-level averages, but uses school-district-level funding and demographics data.

> there are public schools in Boston and NYC that have endowments larger than the total budgets of a dozen other schools combined

Table 1 from the study also includes funding standard deviation data (the "SD" column). The highest one is $765, meaning that 99% of schools are within 3x that amount around the mean. There may be outliers like you say, but they are statistically irrelevant.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...

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