You bring up a very good as well as a very complicated point. Local funding of public education, that is to say property taxes supplementing state foundation program allocations, is effective when you have, as is the case of the rest of the US, local control of the public school districts. The problem that our system in Hawaii has sought to address is the issue of funding equity. Schools in districts with high property values and a relatively affluent population receive more funding than schools in low-income low tax districts. You end up with situations like Fairfax County VA where most of the schools are well-funded and quite successful versus some districts in northern MI where schools have been closed and programs curtailed. Funding of public education is complex and is a balancing act among competing needs and societal goals.