Kansas City just threw money at schools, after the desegregation case. Test scores were and are still issues. Money didn't solve their problems (billion dollar lesson)
so money alone can't change the effect of white flight (and white flight here was simply MASSIVE after bussing etc..). That's a pretty huge thing to overcome with money. That it mostly actually coincided in CA with actual cuts in funding to schools (prop 13) definitely didn't help anything. I think we pretty much live in that landscape formed a few decades ago as far as education goes. With everyone *still* "fleeing" to get a house in a good school district etc.. There is no free lunch for having a lousy public school system of course, and what you don't pay to try to improve the schools (which may or may not work as so many of the problems are bigger than just the schools - people growing up in poverty etc.) you most definitely *WILL* pay in an extra 100k spent for a house in a good school district.