Poorly Funded Public Schools

From reading the book Savage Inequalities to researching the tier 1 and tier 2 schools across California, I have seen that many of the lowest achieving schools are predominately in poorly funded areas of the state.  The book has gone into great detail to express how poor the public schools are in the major cities such as Chicago, East St. Louis, New York, and New Jersey.  They go in depth about how these cities, mostly all in low income areas, have the highest percentage of dropout rates across the board.  Looking at the list of the lowest achieving schools in California, I can now see that most if not all of those schools are in areas of lower class and high crime.  Take a look at the tier 1 schools in California.  Oakland, Los Angeles, San Joaquin, Fresno and San Francisco are all schools on the list with some of the highest percentage for bad schools.  If you look at the correlation between the majority income in those school districts and the dropout rate, you can see that the educational advantage of living in a wealthier city is better than a poor city.