Is there some way to normalize the amount spent on education per student with the need per student? NYC is also the most expensive place to live in the US, so conceivably the amount spent per student doesn't go as far towards their educational outcome. Baltimore is very poor, so conceivably the gap between the amount spent per student and the need per student is still high. Wealthy suburbs in Washington DC might already have so much support per student that their education system would do fine spending even less per student.
Or I suppose in other words: do education spending numbers actually cover what it takes to provide good educational outcomes? And if not, and we wanted to specifically improve education outcomes, could increased education spending still do that by offsetting other deficits? In more concrete terms: if we did something like give schools way more money could they pay for more things like after school tutoring and recreational opportunities to improve educational outcomes that might be happening in places like wealthy suburbs of Washington DC but not as much in Baltimore?
Or I suppose in other words: do education spending numbers actually cover what it takes to provide good educational outcomes? And if not, and we wanted to specifically improve education outcomes, could increased education spending still do that by offsetting other deficits? In more concrete terms: if we did something like give schools way more money could they pay for more things like after school tutoring and recreational opportunities to improve educational outcomes that might be happening in places like wealthy suburbs of Washington DC but not as much in Baltimore?