Your source doesn’t state that the money comes from the federal government. It says broadly that it comes from the people of the United States, this is true, typically school taxes are levied by the local government and disbursed to the the school to make payroll.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the federal government provides less than 10% of total funding for public K-12 education. The source you provided uses ‘government’ as a catch-all term, but in practice, school boards and local property taxes are what determine and pay teacher salaries. Unless a teacher is working in a high-poverty school receiving Title I federal grants, their paycheck is almost entirely funded by the specific taxpayers in their city and state, not the federal treasury.
Public schools receive funding from three different
government sources: local, state, and federal. Local and
state governments contribute the majority of funding
to support public school systems, while the federal
government provides a small fraction (only about 8% on
average). Even with recent infusions of federal funding
related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal share
remains the smallest.
Did you see that I sourced it, lol?
Your source doesn’t state that the money comes from the federal government. It says broadly that it comes from the people of the United States, this is true, typically school taxes are levied by the local government and disbursed to the the school to make payroll.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the federal government provides less than 10% of total funding for public K-12 education. The source you provided uses ‘government’ as a catch-all term, but in practice, school boards and local property taxes are what determine and pay teacher salaries. Unless a teacher is working in a high-poverty school receiving Title I federal grants, their paycheck is almost entirely funded by the specific taxpayers in their city and state, not the federal treasury.
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/u-s-department-of-education-101-federal-funding-in-k-12-education/
You’re right
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED656592.pdf
Three different sources of funding and teachers are still having to buy their own class supplies with already meager incomes.
What a freaking disgrace.