Derf's Grotto

[Tearex]

I think that solution would miss the mark horribly.

"but a correct system would be all the property taxes be collected and evenly distributed to all locations "
You are correct, that is a socialist slant. This is a centralized government solution that puts to much control in a federal government that commands what local government should do at the local levels.

Do you really think that where we stand in the world rankings, is equivalent to the problems in poverty stricken areas?

Why U.S. can’t get back to head of the class (because it was never there)

America is an exceptional, vibrant, creative nation, the greatest democracy ever to grace this planet. We don’t need to create fantasies about our educational history.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-myth-of-americas-historical-educational-supremacy/2012/07/02/gJQAwpgAHW_blog.html

If you factored out the poverty stricken inner city schools (k-12), then we probably rank much higher in the world standings. It is our higher education system that has sets us apart from the world. There is just not as much demand from a society, for world class University degrees as there is for technical vocation degrees.

We are talking about the disadvantages in education, in poverty stricken areas.
That being said, you did not respond to the idea of putting education in the hands of the individual in poverty area's, as opposed to more money distributed evenly by the all controlling central government bureaucracy's. In other words....the money should follow the child ,not the unions or the centralized bureaucracy's!