This is how a smaller piece of the revenue pie is funding public schools because money is being siphoned off to other “initiative” such as:

• Charter Schools
• Vouchers
• Tax Breaks to Corporations
• Sunshine Fund That Has Billions

Go back a couple of decades.

And about 57-62% of that budget would be directed toward public education in North Carolina.

But in the last decade with “reforms” has caused a per-pupil expenditure that is lower than it was before the Great Recession when adjusted for inflation.

And the money that is “allocated” for education is siphoned in different directions.

And how transparent they really are.

So, what we really have in North Carolina is this: