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Do School Districts Matter?
According to a new study, their quality has little effect on student performance.
America's 14,000 school districts control nearly all of the $500 billion in annual public education spending. Though they wield outsized influence on how money gets spent, their quality varies widely (just ask any parent considering a move out of a city to a suburb). But how much does district quality actually matter to student performance?
Not very much, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution.