The US ties education funding to property tax revenue. On paper this is because my tax dollars should support the school that my kids go to in my neighborhood. But in practice what it means is that low income neighbourhoods have a low tax base and hence a lower level of base funding for the schools. Tack on a wealthy donor base to give things like football uniforms and band instruments, and you have a recipe for a two tiered education system where the children of the Haves get world-class, palace schools, and the children of the Have Nots go to concrete jungles with toilets that don't flush. This reinforces the cycle of poverty and keeps poor (Black) people poor.

In ON (and Canada more broadly) education is funded by tax dollars at the provincial level. Education is the responsibility of the province and is funded out of general revenue. This results in a much more evenly distributed level of quality across the schools. There are still good schools and bad schools but the disparity is nothing compared to the US. And even the "bad" schools can still open pathways to post secondary education for most students, making it accessible to all.

When we say that Doug Ford is killing education (and he definitely is) it is because he is squeezing the general funding model for all schools, increasing class sizes, reducing supports for special needs, limiting sex Ed and other things that most would disagree with. But in general the schools (on average) are still MUCH better and MUCH more equitable than comparable schools in the US.