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= abarrus County Board of Education's Mission Exhibit #2 is th~ C -1 -~m~ forward by our school board. They ale tryilg ~ ~come more accountable to the about where they want to go a,,u ~ 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 thmt is taking place to improve the education of our children. Exhibit #4 is a portion of a booklet on Senate Bill 2. ! have copied the pages referring to accountability. A concern of this board and past boards so I 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 ImprovementThey show andthe Accountability Plan" for Cabarrus County. 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 audit report. It shows an increase in spending on instructional supplies in the classrooms of $148,000 over the previous year. It also shows a decrease in total administrative services of $18,000. My reasons 'for commenting on these two specific numbers in the audit are that they show increases are going into the is not valid at this time. I have reviewed the requested school budgets from 1982 through i990. Each year, the board of connmissioners has cut the school boards' requests for current expense funds. This has resulted in an average 12% reduction in the schools' budget requests each of the last 9 years. In last year's budget session, we reduced the requested increase from 22% down to 15%. The result Of this trend of budge% outs is that Cabarrus Oounty is ranked 130 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. er carefully considering this information, to Join ! ask you, aft dir tion'fCr the fUndin~ of schools in this We have the opportunity and public support to do it now. county'you to make this the first year that we gain on the state I urge average instead of falling further behind.