Some states try to redistribute a portion of the property taxes, but it typically gets seen as a piggy bank ripe for raiding to fund various pet projects of the state legislature.
The neighborhood deltas got so bad that these donations themselves are pooled and spread around Palo Alto!
But what this means is that the kids in, say, Lodi are still getting shafted even though the whole point of spreading the money around was to try to level the school spending difference between rich and poor areas.
More funding relative to what? Certainly not relative to the funding Palo Alto schools are getting.
So are the ones in a 200 person town in Alaska. What does proximity matter?