{"id":53215,"date":"2020-07-14T13:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=53215"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:34:06","slug":"federal-spending-covers-only-8-of-public-school-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/federal-spending-covers-only-8-of-public-school-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal spending covers only 8% of public school budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nState and local tax dollars cover the bulk of U.S. public school funding.<\/p>\n

The federal government spends just under\u00a0US$55 billion per year on K-12<\/a>\u00a0education, in addition to outlays for\u00a0early childhood education<\/a>\u00a0and post-secondary programs like loans and grants for\u00a0college tuition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s\u00a0just 8%<\/a>\u00a0of the total $720 billion it costs to run the nation\u2019s public schools during the 2017-18 school year, the most recent national data available.
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This amounts to around $1,100 per K-12 student.<\/p>\n

Federal funding has\u00a0never surpassed 10%<\/a>\u00a0of total public school funding, except from 2010 to 2012 when the federal government sought to reduce the\u00a0school spending cuts<\/a>\u00a0local and state governments made during the Great Recession<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 sent<\/a>\u00a0$54 billion \u2013 the equivalent of $56.5 billion, adjusted for inflation, in spending today \u2013 to schools. That infusion most likely\u00a0saved thousands of education jobs<\/a>\u00a0from budget-based layoffs. In contrast, recent federal aid provided so far, through the March 2020 CARES Act, amounts to\u00a0only about $13 billion<\/a>\u00a0for school districts, with an extra $3 billion for governors to use for K-12 education at their discretion.<\/p>\n

These funds may be spread even thinner if districts must\u00a0allocate funds to neighboring private schools<\/a>\u00a0based on enrollment levels. The Education Department, led by Betsy DeVos, issued guidance with this\u00a0directive<\/a>, but several states including\u00a0California<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Indiana<\/a>\u00a0have pushed back, arguing that federal funds for private schools should be limited to aid targeting low-income students.<\/p>\n

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Most K-12 federal funding supports the nation\u2019s most vulnerable students through the\u00a0National School Lunch Program<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Title I program<\/a>, which targets funding to schools serving low-income students. Federal K-12 funding also supports\u00a0special education<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 providing services for students with special needs.<\/p>\n

In short, federal funds make up a small proportion of total funding for U.S. K-12 education, but those funds largely serve children facing economic hardship or with learning differences.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0White House now says it may cut spending<\/a>\u00a0for school districts that don\u2019t resume daily in-person instruction when the next school year gets underway, or perhaps make additional funding contingent on\u00a0students being in classrooms five days a week<\/a>. As a scholar of\u00a0education finance<\/a>, I\u2019m concerned that this approach would harm the most vulnerable students and families. At a time when schools really need federal leadership and financial support, the administration is threatening to withhold funding from the highest-need schools.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> David S. Knight is Assistant Professor of Education Finance and Policy at the University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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