To identify the need for construction and to estimate the cost of meeting existing and future capital outlay needs of Florida's 67 school districts, this paper attempts to provide a broad overview of the Florida system. More specifically, the paper describes how the State system of public schools is organized, the history of capital outlay survey techniques, a system of inventory known as Florida Inventory of School Houses (FISH), and capital outlay sources and funding techniques for grades K-12. Narrative descriptions and statistical data pertaining to school construction programing are contained in the main body of the paper which describes programing and an appendix which contains tables and statistics, most of which illustrate school construction programing in the State of Florida. (Pages 22, 30, 31, 50, 66, and 87-93 may reproduce poorly.) (Author/MLF)