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| Table 2. | Expenditures in public elementary and secondary education in the United States by expenditure category: Fiscal years 1990 and 2008 |
| Dollar amounts (in thousands) | As percent of total expenditures | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenditure category | FY 1990 | FY 2008 | FY 1990 | FY 2008 | |
| Total expenditures | 212,769,564 | 596,610,357,728 | 99.8 | 100.0 | |
| Instruction and instruction related | 121,356,642 | 333,598,810,297 | 57.0 | 55.9 | |
| Student support | 7,806,238 | 27,385,688,163 | 3.7 | 4.6 | |
| Administration | 21,336,069 | 54,571,055,839 | 10.0 | 9.1 | |
| Operations | 37,270,990 | 91,271,691,617 | 17.5 | 15.3 | |
| Capital outlay and interest on debt | 21,557,662 | 81,475,349,708 | 10.1 | 13.7 | |
| Other programs | 2,982,543 | 8,307,762,104 | 1.4 | 1.4 | |
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Estimates are revised from previous publications. Supplemental note 1 identifies the states in each region. See supplemental note 11 for further information about revenue types. See supplemental note 3 for more information about the Common Core of Data (CCD). | |||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1989–90, 2007–08, previously unpublished tabulation (June 2010). | |||||
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