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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They just compared average HHI income vs how much is spent per student[/quote]

Yes, this statistic is meaningless, but what do you expect from a group called Wallet Hub.[/quote]
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Here’s the raw data chart https://wallethub.com/edu/e/most-least-equitable-school-districts-in-maryland/77088

I can’t even fathom how they are defining the word “equitable” . The methodology says that a county that spend more per pupil than state average is “more equitable”. That sort of makes sense. But then they are saying that the higher a county’s average income is compared to state average the less equitable it is? And the bigger the difference between the two scores, the worse the county is at being equitable? So for a wealthy county to be more equitable, it needs to have a higher per pupil spending in proportion to it’s higher wealth? That’s kind of the opposite of equity.

What I think wallet hub discovered is that a lot of tax money at the state level gets transferred from MoCo and Howard County to fund education in poorer counties. This isn’t a dig at MCPS (as OP seems to think). It’s a dig at the state for how it is inequitably distributing funding back to the counties.[/quote]

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