Employee benefits for instruction are expenditures that are made in addition to the gross salary, but are not paid directly to employees. These include health insurance (for current and retired instructional staff), retirement contributions, social security contributions, worker's compensation, unemployment compensation, and other benefits such as unused sick leave.

Facilities acquisition and construction expenditures include expenditures for new school construction, including renovation and expansion. They include expenditures on land, buildings, and equipment for new and remodeled facilities.

Federal revenues include direct grants-in-aid to schools or agencies, funds distributed through a state or intermediate agency, and revenues in lieu of taxes to compensate a school district for nontaxable federal institutions within a district's boundary.

Instructional expenditures are current expenditures for activities directly associated with the interaction between teachers and students. These include teacher salaries and benefits, supplies (e.g., textbooks), and purchased instructional services.

Interest on debt expenditures are expenditures for interest on long-term debt (i.e., obligations of more than 1 year).

Intermediate revenues come from sources that are not local or state education agencies, but operate at an intermediate level between local and state education agencies and possess independent fundraising capability; for example, county or municipal agencies. Intermediate revenues are included in local revenue totals.

Local revenues include revenues from such sources as local property and nonproperty taxes, investments, and revenues from student activities, textbook sales, transportation and tuition fees, and food services. Intermediate revenues are included in local revenue totals.

Noninstructional expenditures go mostly toward food service, and may include expenditures going towards enterprise operations, such as bookstores and interscholastic athletics.

NPEFS stands for the National Public Education Financial Survey, the state-level finance survey, and source of the data in this report.

Other instructional expenditures include instructional expenditures that were not coded to a specific item, such as salaries or supplies.

Other program expenditures include expenditures for community services, adult education, community colleges, private schools, and other programs that are not part of public elementary and secondary education.

Purchased services for instruction include expenditures for services provided by private businesses and nonprofit institutions. These include computer-assisted instruction, educational television, and the professional services of teachers who are not on the school district's payroll. Rental equipment and service contracts for instructional equipment are also included under purchased services.

Replacement equipment expenditures include expenditures for equipment for schools that are not new or recently renovated. Equipment is generally defined as items that last more than 1 year, are repaired rather than replaced, and have a cost over a level set by the state or local education agencies.

Salaries for instruction include the gross salaries of permanent and temporary instructional staff (teachers, teacher aides, and substitute teachers) on the payroll of school districts.

State revenues include both direct funds from state governments and revenues in lieu of taxation. Revenues in lieu of taxes are paid to compensate a school district for nontaxable state institutions or facilities within the district's boundary.

Student membership is the count of students enrolled on or about October 1.

Supplies for instruction include class textbooks and other instructional supplies.

Support services expenditures are current expenditures for activities that support instruction. These services include operation and maintenance of buildings, school administration, student support services (e.g., nurses, therapists, and guidance counselors), student transportation, instructional staff support (e.g., librarians, instructional specialists), school district administration, business services, research, and data processing.

Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary education and other programs include current expenditures for public elementary and secondary education, and expenditures for facilities acquisition and construction, replacement equipment, other programs, and interest on debt.

Tuition paid out-of-state includes tuition paid to school districts outside the state, and to private schools both inside the state and outside the state, for educating elementary and secondary school students (grades prekindergarten through grade 12). Special needs children who cannot receive the education and services they require within their school district are sometimes sent to private schools.

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