Financial management site WalletHub released a 2015 ranking of the “Best & Worst Run Cities in America.” To measure how well each tax dollar was spent on education, police and parks in the 65 most populated U.S. cities, it considered standardized test scores, crime rates and total acres of park land, among other data, noting, “We define the best-run city as one that yields the highest returns on all of its public-spending investments. (Full methodology appears at end of chart here.) Here, the top and bottom 10 from the list.

For a closer look at the dollars and cents of municipal spending, see Next City’s “The Biggest Bills 4 Cities Paid in 2014.”