
President Trump's campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education could prove more costly for red states than blue. Why it matters: Funding for public schools primarily falls to local and state governments, but federal funds work to fill the gaps. • States that voted for Trump last November, on average, use more federal funding in their education apportions than states that voted for former Vice President Harris. • "That dependence is, in large part, because they're just lower wealth states and they don't have the same capacity to step...