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| | Glossary - A - Pennsylvania - SchoolMatters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | These expenditures are associated with operating activities that directly support the instruction of students (e.g., instruction, administration, operations and maintenance, and related functions). |
 | | Core Spending excludes expenditures that are less likely to directly support instruction, and that may lack comparability between school systems, such as daily operating expenditures for transportation, food services, and enterprise operations. |
 | | It also excludes expenditures, such as building construction and debt payments, that fluctuate widely from one location to another and from one year to the next. |
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