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