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Show Overseeing the operations at the nation's 86,000 public schools are 95,000 citizens who serve on school boards in 16,000 local school districts. dis-tricts. The cost of running the public schools this year is estimated at $100 billion by the National School Boards Assn. (NSBA). On a national average, says the NSBA, about three-fourths three-fourths of a school's budget goes for salaries. Another nine percent is spent on school operation and maintenance, main-tenance, while the rest is spent on textbooks, instructional instruc-tional supplies, utilities, transportation and a multitude multi-tude of other school services. |