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At the scale of the US, those numbers can be highly misleading. Public schools in high-income areas are likely either receiving less from the government or it s
by kyralis 6y ago
At the scale of the US, those numbers can be highly misleading. Public schools in high-income areas are likely either receiving less from the government or it simply makes up a tiny percentage of their budget.
I suspect that the percentage is a bit higher when you look at low-income areas (either within states or even at the state level).
- bhupy 6y ago> I suspect that the percentage is a bit higher when you look at low-income areas (either within states or even at the state level). Okay but how many standard deviations higher? In every single State and school district, Federal funding is a tiny minority of the total budget. If we're talking about public libraries, even an order of magnitude higher %age of budget attributable to the Federal funding is a whopping...4%.
- kyralis 6y agoDo you have a source for this?
- bhupy 6y agoYes: https://www.governing.com/topics/education/gov-state-education-spending-revenue-data.html https://www.governing.com/topics/education/gov-state-educati... The State that's the most reliant on Federal spending is New Mexico; 14% of its budget comes from the Federal government. In every State except for Oklahoma, YoY education spending increased in 2019.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThis is largely true because States refuse to fund education equitably, allowing local public school funding to fluctuate wildly with local wealth.