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From the article you linked: https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/content/04.2...

Compare California and Massachusetts. It seems to demonstrate the point of the poster you replied to. Despite MA relying nearly twice as much on property tax, as state revenue versus California, it seems to have better outcomes. Mostly because as the article discusses, MA appears to use targeted transfers from state revenue to poor districts.

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And, as is often the case, there's a very loose relationship in Massachusetts between per-student spend and educational outcomes as measured by tests. It's common for urban districts in particular to have high spend and generally poor outcomes.

Property tax in California has its own history and complications that makes it difficult to compare California's funding of things based on property tax to anywhere else in the US.

can you link to an article detailing this issue? i'd love to dig deeper on this topic

https://www.kqed.org/news/11701044/how-proposition-13-transf...

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/california-props-...

Late edit: the Wikipedia article would also be something to read up on - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

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