How does the education system in US look like?

Property taxes typically fund our state schools. That’s how you have so much difference in quality between rich and poor areas.

Most states of have some sort of redistribution system to equalize the funding - the average school gets a little under half from property taxes and a little under half from the state, with the balance from federal. Poorer districts will get more from state/federal and richer districts will get more from property taxes. Some states are better at effectively redistributing the funding than others.

School performance correlates much more strongly with the socioeconomic status of the students than it does per capita funding. Though some charter schools have managed to produce better results with less money with kids of same SES.

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