I want to know how much each state in the US spends per pupil on an
annual basis in terms of its "ADA" or "Average Daily Attendance"
funds.

Note I am *not* talking about general per-pupil spending.  Those
figures can be found here.
http://www.nea.org/edstats/images/03rankings.pdf

So for example California spends about $7000 per pupil on average
across all the districts in the state.  But this figure takes into
account the widely-varying local supplemental funds, some districts
are much richer than others.  Whereas the actual amount that
California provides directly on a per-pupil basis (its ADA funding) is
about $5500.  This is the figure that I want to know for every state.

The figures should be as recent as possible, preferably from last
year.
You should not need to do separate research on each state, there
should be a list somewhere with all states on it, probably ranked by
spending.

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 11 Oct 2003 14:00 PDT

Dear manzoid,

I have found a table that lists per-pupil spending by state, based
upon "Average Daily Attendance" for 2001/2002. However, the ADA
funding amount for California is listed as $7119, so I am not really
sure if the table indeed contains the figures you expect. So I decided
to post the first 10 entries, and you can decide whether this is what
you are looking for. If you accept these figures, I will post the
complete dataset:

Expenditures Per Pupil in Average Daily Attendance
2001-2002

Rank   State                Exp/ADA
 1   District of Columbia  $14,359 
 2   New York              $11,472
 3   Alaska                $11,103
 4   New Jersey            $11,029 
 5   Connecticut           $10,825
 6   Rhode Island          $10,294 
 7   Massachusetts         $10,270 
 8   Delaware              $10,166 
 9   Illinois              $ 9,788
10   Vermont               $ 9,764 

Please let me know whether this is what you are looking for.
Regards,
Scriptor