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).
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.