"Public school funding in the United States comes from federal, state, and local sources, but because nearly half of those funds come from local property taxes, the system generates large funding differences between wealthy and impoverished communities" (Biddle).
Bruce Biddle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, did a study on under funded schools in America. He explains that schools often become underfunded when the taxpayers do not pay high enough taxes to keep the school afloat. This can be an uncontrollable problem when the taxpayers of the communities are impoverished and barely living with what they are making. Taxes are a large part of the funding for school systems, which creates a large gap between the wealthy and the impoverished. Schools within certain districts might also experience differences in funding. Many school districts fail to take into account the needs of the underprivileged students. They are thinking of the districts as a whole and generally forget to discuss the individual underprivileged school. The chart below shows school districts per-student funding rates.
When poverty in an area is high, funding for the schools tends to be low. This is not how the statistics should work, but it is how they tend to fall. Below is a chart of the amount of per-expenditures vs. student poverty rates.
People do not choose to live the impoverished lives they sometimes do, and it is not fair that the children in the education system get cheated. (Biddle)