Percentage of New Jersey public school expenditures directed toward instruction, instruction related-services, and student support services, 2003-2004. (New Jersey’s percentage is above the national average.)

Percentage of New Jersey public school expenditures directed toward administration, 2003-2004. (New Jersey’s percentage is below the national average.)

New Jersey’s rank among the 50 states in administrative spending.

Source: U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, “Common Core of Data,” issued July 2006.