California worst at both education and business

[tommy949]

Usually conservative states like Texas are average or below average for education due to the low taxes that are used to fund the public school system but it's a great place to do business so I figured something out. Usually states with low taxes like South Carolina and Texas are average or below average at education but good for starting businesses. States like Massachusetts and Vermont are good at providing public education due to the high taxes everybody pays for it at 10% while California is bad at business and education. In California, what are we paying our taxes for? For bad business and bad education? All those taxes that the residents of California pay go down a shithole to some unknown place and don't end up in our education system like in Massachusetts and in Vermont.

[Vessol]

So more money paid on public education equals better education?

Kansas City called, it would like you to take that assumption back.


"For decades critics of the public schools have been saying, "You can't solve educational problems by throwing money at them." The education establishment and its supporters have replied, "No one's ever tried." In Kansas City they did try. To improve the education of black students and encourage desegregation, a federal judge invited the Kansas City, Missouri, School District to come up with a cost-is-no-object educational plan and ordered local and state taxpayers to find the money to pay for it.

Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil--more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers' salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.

The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.

The Kansas City experiment suggests that, indeed, educational problems can't be solved by throwing money at them, that the structural problems of our current educational system are far more important than a lack of material resources, and that the focus on desegregation diverted attention from the real problem, low achievement."
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-298es.html

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

So more money paid on public education equals better education?

Kansas City called, it would like you to take that assumption back.



The OP provided their own counter example with California.