In 2016, National Public Radio (NPR) released a report titled Why America's Schools Have A Money Problem. It generated a lot of talk among educators and well-concerned Americans alike. The report accompanied the following graph depicting the blatant problem with school funding across the nation:

Quoted from the NPR report:

“That $9,794 is how much money the Chicago Ridge School District in Illinois spent per child in 2013. . . It's well below that year's national average of $11,841.

Ridge's two elementary campuses and one middle school sit along Chicago's southern edge. Roughly two-thirds of its students come from low-income families, and a third are learning English as a second language.

Here, one nurse commutes between three schools, and the two elementary schools share an art teacher and a music teacher. They spend the first half of the year at different schools, then, come January, box up their supplies and swap classrooms. . .

[Another district] sits less than an hour north, in Chicago's affluent suburbs, nestled into a warren of corporate offices: Rondout School, the only campus in Rondout District 72. . .

It has 22 teachers and 145 students, and spent $28,639 on each one of them.

Class sizes in Rondout are small, and every student has an individualized learning plan. Nearly all teachers have a decade of experience and earn, on average, more than $90,000. Kids have at least one daily break for ‘mindful movement,’ and lunch is cooked on-site, including a daily vegetarian option.”