Chapter 3: Total Replacement Equipment Expenditures

In FY 90, total replacement equipment expenditures were $5.5 billion in the United States (table 8.a). By FY 02, this figure had risen to $6.9 billion, an increase of $1.4 billion, or 26 percent (table 8.b). Total replacement equipment expenditures per pupil were $135 in FY 90 and $144 in FY 02 (table 8.c), representing an increase of $9 per pupil, or 7 percent (table 8.d). Total replacement equipment expenditures accounted for 2 percent of total expenditures in FY 90 (table 8.e). In FY 02, total replacement equipment expenditures remained at 2 percent of total expenditures.