From the Twitterverse, Superintendent Darrel Stufflebeam (@dstuffelbeam) explaining “classroom” spending:

“Things that do not count as ‘classroom spending’ (this will take more than one tweet): teacher training, food service, bus drivers,…

“More things that do not count as “classroom spending”: natural gas, librarians, nurses, counselors, speech therapists, principals, …

“Third tweet of things that don’t count as “classrooms spending”: superintendents, custodians, fuel, insurance, secretaries, electricity,…

“Fourth and final tweet of things that don’t count as “classroom spending”: phone service, copier service, water.

“Should add that constructing classrooms does not count as ‘classroom spending’. That’s right, classrooms are not ‘classroom spending'”