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SECTION C. NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS (Cont,) <br /> <br /> PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE GOALS <br /> <br /> Public Education <br /> (As approved at th~ Legislative Goals Conference, December 10-11, 1992) <br /> <br /> 1. School Energy Costs <br /> <br /> Seek Iegislation to restore state funding for public school energy expenditures. <br /> <br /> 2. School Bus Replacement <br /> <br /> Support legislation to provide for full state funding of the schedule for replacement of school <br /> buses, including over-age buses. <br /> <br /> 3. State Funding and Budo~et Reform <br /> <br /> Support legislation to provide for evaluation and consolidation of education initiatives currently <br /> underway, such as the Basic Education and Senate Bill 2 programs, prior to implementation of <br /> new education initiatives or experiments. State efforts should emphasize: <br /> <br /> o Efforts to improve education with as much parent involvement as possible; <br /> <br /> o Efforts to improve early childhood education; <br /> <br />o Efforts to maximize local autonomy through elimination of arbitrary and <br /> counterproductive restraints on use of funds by local boards of education in concert with <br /> increased flexibility and oversight on the part of those who fund public education at the <br /> local level; <br /> <br />o Creative responses to budget constraints, such as use of school buses for appropriate non- <br /> school governmental transportation services or use of other public or commercial <br /> transportation services to transport students to and from school; and <br /> <br />o Efforts to remedy adult illiteracy and provide technical preparation for our future work <br /> force through support for the State's community colleges and technical institutes. <br /> <br />4. State School Construction and Critical Needs Funds <br /> <br />Support legisla:ion to continue the State School Construction Fund and the Critical Needs Fund <br />to assist counties in financing public school construction. <br /> <br />5. Low Wealth and Small School Fundin? <br /> <br />Support legislation to continue state funding for both the Low Wealth School Supplemental Fund <br />and the Small Schools Fund; but encourage refinements in the Low Wealth School Fund formula <br />to eliminate the requirement to meet the weighted statewide average adjusted county tax rate. <br /> <br /> -OVER- <br /> <br /> <br />