Which of the following BEST explains how funding for public schools provides an example of states managing from the middle?

States manage education independently because $90$ percent of funding comes from state and local revenue, leaving them free of federal regulation.

States have little flexibility in measuring student success because the majority of education spending comes from federal revenues.

States comply with federal regulations despite only ten percent of their funding coming from the federal government; however, there are variations in priorities and spending. States manage education by using federal revenue to determine state spending per pupil and must comply with local factors like political leadership.