It yields a lower bound, understating the potential impact of portability
on federal funding for public schools, and showing how portability would matter even in areas with little private school presence.
Its Title I section, the largest single source
of federal funding for public schools (some $ 15 billion to $ 16 billion annually), provides for the newly named School Improvement Funds program, which (along with other parts of Title I) can be tapped for school leadership efforts.
By insisting charter schools are public schools, charter advocates are distancing themselves from Trump's proposed cuts to
federal funding for public schools.
Home schoolers do not want state or
federal funding for public school.