In Connecticut, about 8 percent of education funding comes from the federal government and the rest from within the state.

Compare against the federal share of Connecticut public K-12 education revenue in the latest data available as of October 2020 (for example Census Bureau Annual Survey of School System Finances for FY2018, or NCES revenue data). The claim is rough ('about eight percent'). True: the federal share is roughly 6–10% and nearly all the rest comes from state and local sources. Mostly true: the federal share is 4–6% or 10–12%. Mostly false: the federal share is 12–16% or under 4%. False: the federal share is above 16%, or most non-federal funding does not come from within the state.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Digest of Education Statistics, 2019 U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics · 3 February 2020

   “| Connecticut | 11,583,918 | 503,812 | 941 | 4.3 | 4,494,453 | 38.8 | 6,585,653 | 56.9 | 6,431,528 | 55.5 | 92,242 | 0.8 |”

2. E2 Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: FY 17 (Finance Tables, NCES 2020-301) U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics · February 2020

   “State and local governments provided $648.0 billion, or 91.9 percent of all revenues. The federal government contributed $57.3 billion, or 8.1 percent of all revenues (derived from table 1).”

3. E3 Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: FY 18 (Finance Tables, NCES 2020-306) U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics · August 2020

   “State and local governments provided $676.9 billion, or 92.2 percent of all revenues.”

E1 gives a Connecticut row from an NCES Digest table, but the quote has no column headings or table title saying what each figure measures or which year it covers. Under the rules, an unlabelled row like this cannot settle the federal share. E2 and E3 give national figures for FY2017 and FY2018 (federal 8.1% in FY2017; state and local 92.2% in FY2018). Neither gives Connecticut's federal share, so the evidence does not settle the claim.