State Revenues as a Percentage of Total Public School Revenues | Eastern NC Now

Publisher's note: The author of this post is Terry Stoops for the John Locke Foundation.

    The National Center for Education Statistics recently published The Condition of Education 2020, which is a compendium of education statistics and data collected and compiled by NCES researchers.

    One of the more interesting data points is state revenues as a percentage of total public school revenues. In the Southeast, no other legislature contributes a larger share of state revenue than North Carolina. Most other states rely on local sources of revenue, particularly property taxes, to fund their schools.