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Exhibit #2 is the Cabarrus County Board of Education's Mission Statement and Goals, This is a real step forward by our school board. They are trying to lay out a visible plan for the public about where they want to go and become more accountable ts the public, This is something that even we haven't done as a board. Exhibit #3 is the SAT Improvement Guide, ! have enclosed copies of Just a couple of pages to give you an idea of the serious planning that is taking place to improve the education of our children. Exhibit #4 is a portion of a booklet on Senate Bill 2, I have copied the pages referring to accountability' A concern of this board and past boards, so ! have been told, is that the school board should be more accountable for any increase in funding given to them by the commissioners. The fact that the school board and faculty voted to participate in Senate Bill 2, shows they are seriOUS about trying to improve our children's education. Exhibit #5 is excerpts from "The School improvement and Accountability Plan" for Cabarrus County, 'They show the different specific performance indicators that will be measured to evaluate improvement and qualify for differentiated pay for our staff. Exhibit #6 is excerpts from the Cabarrus County 1988 school year · . increase in spending on instructional audit report, It ~hows ~ of $148,000 over the preViOu~ yea~ It also shows a deer- L- on th~se two specific n $18,000 My reasons for oorm~en~lng- show increases are going into ~he in the audit are t~at ,~ases in administration costs at the - --ooms and not ior lu~ the past but school's central office. This has been a concern in is not valid at this time, he re nested school budge ts f !~8~ t~ ~om c he ! have reviewed t ~ q~rd of commissioners nas ~ .... lted lggO. Each year, ~e ~ ~ ~-~ense funds. . This nas ~u ~ of the last 9 years, In last year's budget session, we reduced the requested increase from ~2% down to 15%, The result of this trend of budget cuts is that Cabarrus County is ranked lSO out of 140 school systems in the State of North Carolina by "the Forum" in its efforts to finance schools. Cabarrus County is ranked 43 out of 140 systems in its ability to afford better schools, ! ask you, after carefully considering this l~formatlon, to Join ion for the funding of schools in this me in setting a new direct support to do it now. We have the opportunity and public °°unty'you to make this the first year that we gain on the state I urge average instead of falling further behind.