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).

> 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%.

Do you have a source for this?

Yes: 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.

This is largely true because States refuse to fund education equitably, allowing local public school funding to fluctuate wildly with local wealth.

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.

But 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-educati...

The State that is the most reliant on the Federal government is New Mexico (14% of its education budget).