... relations, judicial functions, and the postal service. State and local governments were responsible for education, police, roads, sanitation, welfare, health, hospitals, and so on.The role of the ... equalizationlaws mandate redistribution across communities in a state to ensure more equal financing of schools. Local districts receive about 45% of the funding from local sources, primarily from local ... delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”Figure 1Figure 1 shows the spending patterns...