It's interesting how effectively CP laws killed anonymity and free speech tools. All it takes is one bad actor (and a compliant media apparatus that will parrot "known for hosting CP" on command).

The study [1] doesn't look at state-level averages, but uses school-district-level funding and demographics data.

> there are public schools in Boston and NYC that have endowments larger than the total budgets of a dozen other schools combined

Table 1 from the study also includes funding standard deviation data (the "SD" column). The highest one is $765, meaning that 99% of schools are within 3x that amount around the mean. There may be outliers like you say, but they are statistically irrelevant.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...

Somehow none of the government proposals are about the latter though. They're probably just unaware of the possibility - I'm sure that as soon as someone tells them about it, they'll abandon all the surveillance-type proposals and switch to parental controls :)

> Clearly the police felt the AI was "responsible enough" to be the only thing they needed to trust.

Yes, that's what the OPs "incompetence and negligence" referred to.

A common myth - federal and state governments supplement school funding to roughly equalize per-pupil expenditure. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357203