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Dollars to the Classroom or Dollars to the Administration?

By Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.
Published on Tuesday, March 25, 2003
MARYLAND POLICY REPORT

Over the past many years, public elementary and secondary education spending in Maryland and nationwide has been steadily increasing. In the 2001– 02 academic year, for example, Maryland’s 24 county school districts spent over $7 billion on current-year operations. While most of this spending was related directly to classroom instruction, an alarming trend has emerged whereby an increasing share of budgetary growth has been related to central administration and other non-instructional uses.

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