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January 04, 2005 1 min read
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The share of federal, state, and local revenue for education varies greatly from state to state. For example, the state share of funding for the 2001-02 school year ranged from a low of 31.5 percent in Nevada to a high of 89.1 percent in Hawaii.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Educational Statistics, 2001-02

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