California can't fund any of its public schools properly because of Prop 13. None of the wealthy homeowners care about this, because they're all too old to have kids in school.
Letting schools continue to suck with the excuse that they just need more funding is the sickening anti-education policy.
Yes, an organization that is shitty due to bad policies won't improve, and might become worse, when given more funding.
The easiest way to live in the area as a schoolteacher is to marry an engineer or someone else with a home, too.
(I went to a tiny rural elementary school located between a tractor supply store and a goat pen. Three teachers taught six grades, two grades per classroom. Compared to the SF schools, it was incredibly under-resourced -- and yet it was a Good School, academically much higher-performing. I think about this sometimes when people point at money as obviously the reason why Johnny can't read.)