A new report from
AASA: The School Superintendents Association highlights a few facts about federal support for education:
- While federal spending has typically been around 8-9% of total education revenue, even in a post-recession, post-stimulus environment, federal education revenue is still high. It averaged 11.8% in the 2011-12 school year.
- Over a quarter of schools relied on the feds for more than 15% of their total budget, and in 6% of schools, federal dollars account for more than 25% of total revenues.
Appropriations in both FY11 and FY12 represented cuts of $1.5 billion from education, and if sequester cuts continue, it could mean another $2.4 billion will be cut, even as total student enrollment is increasing.
Check out the report, Unequal Pain: Federal Public Education Revenues, Federal Education Cuts and the Impact on Public Schools. The short 8-page report includes some state-by-state tables, as well as some "voices from the field." Let us know if you're relying more on federal dollars these days, and if so, is that happening because your share from the feds has gone up, or have the state and local dollars simply decreased?