The NCES provides a wide variety of resources and information at its website. Go to the NCES website (https://nces.ed.gov/) for this project. You will need to use the About Us and the Data and Tools links to help find your answers.
a. What is the purpose of the NCES?
b. From the Data and Tools link, click on Search for Public School Districts and type in the information for a local school district or one with which you are familiar (perhaps the one from which you graduated). It is recommended that you follow the advice on the right-hand side of the screen on how to search for your school district. Using the links found under District Details, answer the following:
(1) How many schools are in the district? How many students?
(2) What is the student-teacher ratio?
(3) What are the total revenues per student, and what is the primary source of revenue? What percentage of the total revenues is provided by the primary source of revenue? What percentage of total revenues is provided by the federal government?
(4) What are the total expenditures per student and what percent of expenditures goes to instruction?
(5) Were revenues greater than or less than expenditures for the period? What was the amount of the difference and what percentage is the difference of the total expenditures?