Breaking: Census Bureau Releases Report On Public School Finances #funding
The U S Census Bureau today released a report on how public schools in the United States are financed. It concludes that public schools across the nation spent over 60 percent of day-to-day expenditures on classroom instruction in fiscal year 2015. The report contains a wealth of data pertaining to school finance, including numbers regarding how much is spent on special education. The 65 page report Public Education Finances: 2015 is available here. Here are some highlights: “School systems in all states and the District of Columbia spent $344.3 billion on classroom instruction,” said Stephen Wheeler, a project manager with the Census Bureau’s Educational Finance Branch . “This includes spending on salaries for teachers, instructional aides and substitute teachers.” Classroom instruction is defined as activities dealing with the interaction between teachers and students in the classroom or other learning situations. New York and the District of Columbia led the natio...