For those of you scrolling who don’t have 2 minutes to peer at tiny graphs on your phone, no worries, no shame, understood. Here’s the short version:
Minnesota chronically, systematically underfunds school districts with more Black and brown kids. White suburban districts use local property taxes to boost per-pupil funding, by a factor of more than 3x at the extremes. There’s your “allocation problem.”
I’m sure that’s what the AEI guy was talking about.