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The average number doesn't speak to the impact on individual districts. I'm sure the impact of federal spending cuts will be small on schools whose per-student
by xsmasher 6y ago
The average number doesn't speak to the impact on individual districts.
I'm sure the impact of federal spending cuts will be small on schools whose per-student budget is already large, and large on schools whose per-student budget is small.
In other words, cuts would hurt the poorest schools the most, and increase the divide that the parent article is talking about.
- bhupy 6y agoBut school funding has never been under the purview of the Federal government, and State government budgets are already earmarked for equalizing local disparities. 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 is the most reliant on the Federal government is New Mexico (14% of its education budget).