9 Paying for school.

• Position: STATELINE - Public school funding - Brief article

Public school revenues amounted to $604.3 billion in FY 2011, down slightly from $608.4 billion the year before. State governments paid for the biggest share--44.1 percent--followed by local governments at 43.4 percent and the federal government at 12.5 percent, according to a U.S. Department of Education annual report. On the expenditure side, the average amount states spent per pupil decreased by 1.5 percent, to an average of...