In recent years, educational policy makers have expressed increased interest in information about private elementary and secondary school expenditures. However, there is currently no national data collection of the finances of this school sector. A study was initiated for three main purposes: to determine the extent to which expenditure data are…

Relatively little is known about private school finance in the United States. Since this lack of data impoverishes educational policy discussions that compare public and private schools, a strategy, was developed to collect finance data from private schools. High-quality data can be used to determine the total amount spent on elementary and…

Data on private school finance are not available to inform educational policy discussions about private education. Because of interest in private school finances, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) contracted with the Pelavin Research Center of the American Institutes for Research to explore the feasibility of collecting data…

In 1992, the National Center for Education Statistics reached the conclusion that the comparability of international education statistics needed improvement. The International Expenditure Comparability Study was undertaken for this purpose. The first volume presented detailed discussions of problems in the comparability of international education…

Although policy makers have expressed interest in expenditures by private elementary and secondary schools, nationally representative data in this area are not available. In the absence of expenditure data it may nevertheless be possible to derive national estimates of total expenditures by private schools indirectly, by using the information that…