> Property taxes pay for schools.

Are there any other countries that use a local-tax funding model for public schools? Most other nations that I know use a national funding model.

Poor schools actually get more government funding per student.

This is why good school districts California usually have ties to non-governmental chairty parents associations that parents contribute directly.

It is also a huge part of why California passed prop 13. After property taxes we're separated from funding local schools, homeowners were simply much less willing to pay for taxes that won't go to their kid or community.