Biden’s comment was really quite a foolish thing to say, but he really didn’t have much to do with education spending in coal mining areas of the country. Accor

Biden’s comment was really quite a foolish thing to say, but he really didn’t have much to do with education spending in coal mining areas of the country. According to [1], federal funding for high schools represents around 7 or 8 percent of the total. Historically, the Federal government doesn’t fund elementary, middle, or high school education; that responsibility falls on the local and state governments. Furthermore, funding doesn’t seem to be the problem with US schools, see [2]. [1] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cma.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cma.asp [2] https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm