The only thing you are right about Truecon is that these large school districts have a higher failure rate, but where you get it wrong is that their larger number of students requires more staff, so your numbers are all off--you dont simply divide the amount of money by the number of students--these schools have massive student populations and therefore require more teachers and more school administration. Common urban issues not seen in remote rural areas will be represented very unevenly-drugs,domestic abuse, unemployment, etc will all have a larger impact un urban schoools.

The point is that you cannot measure it so simply as dollars per student-and even then your goal of using tax dollars to fund private religious schools via vouchers will take even more money from an already hurting system.

The point remains that in the more "typical" suburban schools the GPA, the rate of students going on to college, and the general educational level of the students continues to be excellent and well above the typical red state-namely because funding is higher and because the suburban schools have a lot less of the issues I mentioned which urban schools face.

One would think the majority rural schools of the red states would do better-but they dont--this is a result of underfunding by their own parents who favor keeping more of their money for buying four wheelers and cigarettes, and because church is given a status well above that of education, making mythology a replacement for science and history in many situations. The importance placed on religion over science is a built in limitation on their level of intelligence and in many cases in fact causes ignorance and intolerance as a result--making your typical Lush Limbaugh fan.