Chapter 3: Other Program Expenditures

Other program expenditures were $4.2 billion in the United States in FY 90 (table 9.a). By FY 02, these expenditures had risen to $6.5 billion, an increase of $2.3 billion, or 56 percent (table 9.b). In FY 90, other program expenditures per pupil were $103 (table 9.c). They were $137 in FY 02, representing an increase of $34 per pupil, or about 33 percent (table 9.d). Other program expenditures accounted for 1 percent of total expenditures in FY 90 (table 9.e) and almost 2 percent of total expenditures in FY 02.