Local education agencies spent $28.5 billion on free public elementary and secondary education during 1968-69, which represents 92 percent of public school expenditures during that year. These data do not include money spent for administration at state and intermediate levels, community services, adult education, and summer schools for which…

The information in this report is directed to both the general information needs of educational researchers and the more specialized needs of personnel administering programs under P.L. 81-874--School Assistance in Federally Affected Areas--and P.L. 89-10--the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. For this reason, this publication…