Appropriations and Budget

Subcommittee on Education

IS 11-059: Dollars to Classrooms

Representative David Brumbaugh

November 2011

How do we define “Instructional Expenditures?”

Instruction includes the activities dealing directly with the interaction between teachers and students. Teaching may be provided for students in a

school classroom, in another location such as a home or hospital, and in other learning situations such as those involving cocurricular activities. It

may also be provided through some other approved medium, such as television, radio, computer, the Internet, multimedia, telephone, and

correspondence, that is delivered inside or outside the classroom or in other teacher-student settings. Included here are the activities of aides or

classroom assistants of any type (graders, teaching machines, etc.) who assist in the instructional process. If proration of expenditures is not

possible for department chairpersons who also teach, include department chairpersons who also teach in instruction.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics

2008 2009 2010 3-Yr

55.99% 53.37% 54.17% 54.49%

Average % Instructional Expenditure for All Schools

Source: State Department of Education

0 - 56.9 57 - 59.9 60 - 64.965+

2008

2009

2010

338

11887

15

373

9675

15

344

10993

140

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

% Instructional Expenditure

# Schools

Schools by Percentage of Instructional Expenditure and Year