The Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Finance and Operations directs and supervises legislative and operating budgets, the Public
Education Capital Outlay budget and the Florida Education Finance Program allocations.
The state has such programs for special
education, transportation, bilingual
education, gifted - and - talented students, reading initiatives,
capital outlays and debt service, vocational
education, class - size reduction, and technology.
21CSF used the data reported by U.S. K - 12 school districts on the U.S. Census of Governments Fiscal Surveys and published by the National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES) as the primary data sources; the data includes local school district enrollments and annual revenues and expenditures, including those for
capital outlay and for maintenance and operations of plant.