Schools are largely a reflection of the families that send their kids there. The notion of "fixing" the school absent a concurrent "fixing" of the families in the area is wishful thinking. When you have neighborhoods where the kids see their first book in Preschool or Kindergarten, where the parent[[s) aren't laser-focused on education and where parents don't attend school functions or parent-teacher conferences, you have a problem unfixable by mere increases in funding.