{
  "definition": "Vermont Agency of Education (AOE), \"Classifying School Districts by Size and Type of Education Offered\", FY2026: the district's budgeted education spending — the part of its voted budget paid from the statewide Education Fund, after offsetting revenues — divided by its long-term weighted average daily membership (LTW ADM, the Act 127 weighting used from FY2025), as AOE computed it. It is a budget, not actual spending, and it is the district of residence's: it includes tuition the district pays for its students at other public and approved independent schools.",
  "limitations": [
    "This is a budgeted figure, not actual spending. Do not describe it as what a district spent.",
    "The divisor is a weighted pupil count, not the number of students enrolled.",
    "Not comparable with the per-equalized-pupil figures of FY2012–FY2024. Each row’s scope also gives the group AOE places the district in.",
    "A district or agency with no value for this exact measure and period is listed as unavailable with an empty value. It is not zero, and no other year or measure is substituted.",
    "Do not compare this figure with a per-pupil figure from another state or another source: the definitions and the pupil counts differ.",
    "A per-pupil figure depends on what the agency counts and on the pupil count it divides by. This table is not a ranking and is not evidence of waste or of educational quality."
  ],
  "columns": {
    "id": "NCES LEA identity, or explicit ny-beds- state-only identity where no NCES LEAID exists",
    "name": "Published district/agency name",
    "page_url": "DistrictFacts profile",
    "value": "Reported amount in the stated unit; empty when unavailable",
    "unit": "cents",
    "period": "Exact source reporting period",
    "scope": "Original district measure definition; do not blend scopes",
    "status": "published or unavailable",
    "reason": "Explanation when unavailable",
    "source_id": "Registered source identifier",
    "source_url": "Official source URL",
    "source_sha256": "SHA-256 of pinned source bytes",
    "locator": "Workbook/table/row locator"
  },
  "licence": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "citation": "DistrictFacts, Vermont FY2026 budgeted education spending per weighted pupil: the source table, version 836c73d5473a45ce; compiled from sources identified per row."
}