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In reply to the discussion: Where do you stand on homeschooling? [View all]exboyfil
(17,865 posts)is prety consistent across school districts with the larger more diverse school districts actually spending more per pupil. In most cases the Chicago city schools have much higher spends than the small city/rural schools in Illinois. Only a small handful of super school districts significantly outspend the Chicago city schools. Those school districts actually get little funding outside of their own district tax base (90% local) (as opposed Chicago which gets much more from outside the district (state and federal at 50%)).
The highest spend per pupil school districts are large urban diverse districts. About $13,500 for Chicago while several mostly white school districts surrounding Chicago spend significantly less.
Lets say you change the formula to income based instead of property tax based in Illinois - the richer school districts would just switch to a private school option. That is kind of what is happening now except you do have poor enclaves in these richer districts. The total number of these students is very small when compared to the rest of the state.
http://schools.chicagotribune.com/