What category comprises the largest cost of public education at the local level?

What category comprises the largest cost of public education at the local level?
 
  a. Construction (new schools, improvements, etc.)
  b. Labor (teachers, staff, etc.)
  c. Student health (nurses, inoculations, etc.)
  d. Transportation (busses, lawn equipment, etc.)

 Q. 2

Statewide accountability standards introduced by the legislature were intended to incorporate __________ into the public school system.
 
  a. mathematics
  b. college level programs
  c. diversity
  d. variability between school districts
  e. competitive market forces

 Q. 3

The largest area of direct state spending is
 
  a. social services.
  b. transportation.
  c. education.
  d. public employee pensions.

 Q. 4

Meaningful state support for public schools began in
 
  a. 1879.
  b. 1915.
  c. 1918.
  d. 1949.
  e. 1984

 Q. 5

The largest and fastest growing component of state budgets centers on
 
  a. transportation.
  b. social service spending.
  c. public employee pensions.
  d. public works.

 Q. 6

The largest budget item in Texas government is
 
  a. Medicaid.
  b. education.
  c. transportation, including highways.
  d. corrections.
  e. government administration.

 Q. 7

Which of the following is NOT true regarding trends in state and local revenues?
 
  a. Federal revenues sent to the states play a larger role in state budgets than 60 years ago.
  b. States now collect about twice as much of their overall revenues from income taxes than 60 years ago.
  c. States have not been as reliant on fees and charges to fill out their revenue portfolios since the 1980s.
  d. A much smaller proportion of state revenue is now generated by selective sales taxes on gasoline.

 Q. 8

Individual legislators' trading votes among themselves is known as
 
  a. apportionment.
  b. appropriations.
  c. logrolling.
  d. bonding.
  e. general obligations.