Essays and data-driven analyses by Drew Wells — software, infrastructure, and numbers worth a second look.https://blog.wellsstar.dev/https://blog.wellsstar.dev/posts/effectiveness-per-tax-dollar/https://blog.wellsstar.dev/posts/effectiveness-per-tax-dollar/Austin ISD raises and spends the most per pupil of Texas’s big urban districts — and posts the best results. It also sends roughly half its local property taxes back to the state, and that single fact can flip its efficiency ranking from last toward the top.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTdataeducationtexaspublic-finance