Axios

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 in and make up that difference,” Kevin Welner, the director of the National Education Policy Center, told Axios. State of play: Average federal spending in the 2021-22 school year was 17% in Trump-voting states compared to 11% in states that voted for Harris.