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Where does school budgets' money go? Salaries
Labor costs take biggest chunk of local systems' spending
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The larger a number is, the less meaning it sometimes seems to carry. When you think of a small number like five, it’s easy to picture it exactly in your mind — maybe you see five apples, or five pencils, like the ones you used learning to count as a child. You can picture, not just what looks like around five or so, but exactly five.