This handbook is one of a series to facilitate and improve the collection, maintenance, and reporting of educational information. As a guide for recording and reporting information about State education agencies, this handbook defines and provides classifications of terms concerned with State education authorities, their personnel, and their property; and State education departments, their functions, personnel, property, and financial operations. Standard nomenclature is used so that more easily comparable data may be obtained. The guide will assist State agencies to communicate more clearly and effectively with their publics, their legislative bodies, and their educational organizations. (Author)