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The data can also be interpreted: a court order to fix your damn school correlates with improvement. It's hard to believe that it's just money, some of these poorer urban districts have the highest per student educational spending, so a court order to spend money on students to me suggests "redirecting financial resources away from corruption"

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I have looked everywhere for a national dollar per student database. Do you know if such a thing exists?

In the U.S. the census appears to handle that. I'm not any kind of expert on this data, but try this PDF here: http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/13f33pub.pdf PDF Page 26

How I got there: http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educa... http://www.census.gov/govs/school/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/23/the-d...

Look at the list of top spending districts, I see two districts with good outcomes (fairfax and Montgomery county) and the rest are urban districts with notoriously bad public schools (plus Hawaii which doesn't have local school districts and has outcomes so bad that pretty much everyone flees to private options, eg Barack Obama).

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