Public Education Finances: 1990-91.

Overview & Synopsis

The United States Bureau of the Census conducts an Annual Survey of Government Finances. This report contains financial statistics on public elementary, secondary, and higher education for 1990-91. The first section of the report includes table summaries of federal, state, and local education expenditures and elementary-secondary education expenditures. The second section on elementary-secondary education includes information on expenditures by enrollment size and per pupil, and revenue sources, expenditures, and debt transactions by state. The third section includes state and local direct higher education expenditures and local public school system finances for higher education by state. The fourth section includes individual public school system finances and per pupil amounts of financial items of individual school systems with enrollment of 15,000 or more. Relational statistics and rankings by state are included in the fifth section. Included are ranks of per pupil elementary-secondary public school system revenues and expenditures, and ranks according to relation of revenue and expenditure items to $1,000 personal income. Population, enrollment, and personal income by state are also included. Appendices A through D include definitions of selected terms, education finance data notes, two-letter state abbreviations, and detail of federal government education expenditures. (JPT)