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Show Educational spending at $1.8 billion in Utah cent. Other public education expenditures expen-ditures climbed by $9.3 million, or 8 percent and spending for higher education rose by $33 million or 9.5 percent. According to the Foundation analysis, current expenditures in the Utah public schools totaled $1,062 million in 1989-90 and accounted for 81 percent of all local school expenditures and 59 percent of total expenditures for all educational purposes in the state. This was equal to $2,598 per pupil in average daily attendance. Per pupil costs generally are significantly higher in the sparsely-populated rural districts than they are in the more heavily populated urban districts. Last year, for example, per pupil expenditures varied from a low of $2,296 in the Alpine District to a high of $6,810 in the Daggett School District. Current expenditures in the Davis School District during the 1989-90 school year totaled $121,358,234 or $2,440 per pupil in average daily attendance. at-tendance. Approximately 70.6 percent per-cent of these expenditures went for classroom instruction, 11.1 percent for plant operation and maintenance, 6.9 percent for administration, ad-ministration, 4.9 percent for pupil services (including transportation), 3.8 percent for instructional staff services, and 2.7 percent for all I other activities. Foundation analysts point out I that for the state as a whole, j classroom instruction accounted for about 68.9 percent of all current expenditures ex-penditures by local school districts, plant operation and maintenance for 10.8 percent, administration for 7.3 percent, pupil services including transportation for 5.9 percent, instructional in-structional staff services for 4.1 percent and all other items for 3 percent. SALT LAKE CITY Spending for all educational educa-tional purposes in Utah totaled $1.8 billion, the Utah Foundation, a private tax research organization, has reported. Included in the 1989-90 education edu-cation expenditure total was $1.3 billion for local public education and secondary schools, $125 million to finance the state school office, state-operated schools (such as the applied technology centers, the school for the deaf and blind, etc.), along with other state educational educa-tional programs, and $383 million for higher education (the nine state-owned state-owned colleges and universities and the State Board of Regents). The report observes that 79 percent per-cent or $1.4 billion, of last year's education spending total came from state and local tax sources. The remaining re-maining 19 percent or $378 million, was derived from other sources, such as federal aid, tuition and other charges for services. Total education spending was increased in-creased by $146 million, or 8.8 percent per-cent during the 1989-90 fiscal year. Local school expenditures were raised by $104 million, or 8.6 per- |