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BULLETIN Raleigh, N. C.
Raleigh
BLIC SCHOOL
Vol. XXXI, No. 3
November, 1966
Public Schools 'B' Budget Requests
Top Current Funds by $137 Million
A total of S137 million over and above current allotments (Budget “A”)
for public schools has been officially justified and formally requested by
the State Board of Education and the Department of Public Instruction
through its proposed “B" budget to the State Advisory Budget Com¬
mission. (The “B” budget in all State agencies represents those anticipated
monetary needs for the next biennium over and beyond current allotments.)
Budget items include requests for additional personnel, salary increases
for all public school personnel, and extended terms of employment for a
number of personnel categories. In addition, requests have been made
which would provide for the elimination of book fees and other school
fees; the initiation of a pilot kindergarten program in each of the eight
educational districts; transportation for certain categories of city students;
expanded television and in-service education programs; and continuation
of the Governor's School and the Comprehensive School Improvement
Program.
Approximately 400 additional personnel have been requested for the first
year of the biennium, 1967-69, and nearly 800 for the second year. These
requests arc for additional specially allotted teachers for the educable
mentally retarded (200 the first year of the biennium, 400 the second
year) ; teachers for crippled children and those who have speech and
hearing handicaps, 30 and 60; teachers for high school instruction in home
economics, trades and industrial education, distributive education, diversi¬
fied and comprehensive vocational education, and office education, 133 and
235; teachers of home economists for adults, 5 and 5; and local directors
of vocational education, 30 and 60. These personnel requests total
$6,135,893.
Expanded Services
Requests for additional or expanded services total $4,735,812. Major
items include: request for expanded services in education by television
to include art, music, foreign languages, and primary grade instruction
in the elementary school, and government/world geography, seventh- and
eighth-grade English-history and secondary school music; request for
additional educational leadership services under the State Board of Educa¬
tion; request for transportation services for pupils within municipal
corporate limits who reside one and a half miles or more from school;
request for State funds for continuation of 60 performances each of the
Shakespeare and Sandburg projects (currently sponsored by private
enterprise); request for increased aid for disabled citizens; and request
for funds to initiate pilot kindergarten projects in each of the eight
educational districts.
Salary increases included in the “B” budget include a recommended
raise in teachers’ salaries, 8.73 percent, 1967-68 and 17.58 percent in
1968-69; principals and supervisors, 5 percent and 10 percent; superin¬
tendents and assistant superintendents, 10 percent and 5 percent; property
and cost clerks and attendance counselors, 5 percent and 10 percent; pay
for substitute teachers from $10 to $15 per day; remuneration for those
working with student teachers, 850 per student teacher; janitors and
maids, 5 percent and 5 percent; mechanics, 5 percent and 10 percent; and
bus drivers from S30 to $40 per month. Proposed salary increases rec¬
ommended in the “B” budget amount to $83,044,252.
In the area of books, instructional supplies and materials, the budget
item for 1967-69 totals $13,675,048 — to be used to provide for new
adoptions of elementary basal textbooks; to provide $5 per year per high
school pupil for basal and supplementary textbooks, thereby prohibiting
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State Support Survey
Shows N. C. as Third
North Carolina ranked third in
the nation last year in the per¬
centage of State funds used for
public schools, according to statis¬
tics published recently by the Na¬
tional School Boards Association.
The survey shows that 65.9 per¬
cent of the money going for school
support in North Carolina schools
is provided by the State. Only
Delaware and Louisiana are listed
ahead of North Carolina in this
comparison.
Local Support
Local governments in this State
furnished 22.3 percent of the school
financing last year, placing North
Carolina fourth from the bottom
in this category. The Federal fur¬
nished 11.8 percent of the Tar Heel
school support for 1965-66, placing
the State 12th from the top in this
category. Alaska drew most heavily
from Federal funds, getting 27.5
percent of its school financing from
Washington. Arkansas and Missis¬
sippi tied for second place, each
getting 20 percent of its school
money from Federal sources.
The statistical report showed
North Carolina’s current expense
budget for schools figured out to
$379 per pupil in average daily
attendance, placing the State 43rd
among the States.
Number Enrolled
North Carolina was 10th high in
the number of pupils enrolled in
its schools with a total of 1,205,613.
Iri average teacher salaries, the
State ranked 40th with an average
salary of $5.337.
A chart listing the median school
years completed by persons 25 years
and older shows 8.9 years for
North Carolina, placing the State
43rd. Seven states claim averages
of 12 years of schooling or better —
Utah, Alaska, California, Colorado,
Nevada, Washington, and Wyom¬
ing.
