Monday, May 17, 2010

NC Senate Budget Would Permit Teacher Furloughs

NC Senate Budget Would Permit Teacher Furloughs
The Senate budget proposal, announced on Monday a lower education to reduce the next year, compared with the modifications requested by the Governor Beverly Perdue, but would give local school districts and teachers' length of service in the use of lottery funds as a last resort to prevent layoffs.

Curriculum, part of the bill about 19 billion U.S. dollars budget to bring the whole Senate should vote against the end of the week, would allow districts to require employees to take two days unpaid leave, "said Senator AB Swindell, D-Nash, one of main sponsors of the Senate budget. A number of school districts such as Charlotte-Mecklenburg asked that the authority of the General Assembly.

Swindell also said the decrease would piirit use part of the lottery prize to the state teachers' salaries to avoid layoffs.

The use of lottery funds represent a departure from 2005 Act, which restricts the net proceeds games used to recruit teachers to keep class sizes in early grades to teach at risk 4-year to build new schools and to provide scholarships to be necessary.

Swindell said that change would only be for next year, and the only lottery winnings, which are not anticipated in the current year's budget. Lottery would generate $ 73,000,000 profits over the next year as planned.

Public schools and health and social services have the most success in the proposed budget of $ 624,000,000, or other spending cuts than what is already required in the second year budget begins July 1 Dozens of offices in the state will see reductions of 5 percent or more. State salaries of public teachers and state workers should continue to be blocked for the second year in a row.

The changes aim to reduce the budget gap $ 800,000,000 and $ 1,000,000,000 of revenue the state flag. Size of the Senate Budget Committee is scheduled to discuss the full budget calculations on Tuesday.

While the Senate plan does not eliminate the requirement that school districts find another $ 80 million to cut the budget writers refused to increase the flexibility of application Perdue called the cuts a consistent second $ 135 million. But several other school fees were reduced further. Local school districts would see 9 percent cut in their central task, nearly 5 percent fewer assistant principals, and reduced by 21 percent for teams of nurses and social workers who help children at risk.

All in all public schools would see a reduction of 3 percent, or about $ 219,000,000 less than the budget of $ 7,100,000,000. Perdue had recommended a reduction of 3.5 per cent.

"We are very pleased with the cuts is not greater management flexibility," said Leanne Winner, lobbyist for the North Carolina School Boards Association, but other cuts are "going to affect the schools operate and how we can provide education for children."

University of North Carolina system, mainly seen expenditure remain flat and the system of college increased by 5 per cent pay rush of students trying to retrain or find new careers.

"It's hard to say you're happy with a budget that cut education," said Sen. Richard Stevens, R-Wake-President of the Senate budget subcommittee, which was approved plan for training on Monday. "But it is a better budget than it was."

Budget subcommittee on Health and social services has also recommended more than $ 4.2 million reduction Smart Start early childhood education and health program expenditure compared to plan the project was unveiled last Friday. The Panel has also asked for an additional savings of $ 18,200,000 Community Care of North Carolina, nonprofit initiative of the State managed care Medicaid patients.

Other sub-committees have approved their parts of the Senate's spending plan on Monday. Their plans for language:

Expenditure $ 15,000,000 to develop a pilot program running from 40 schools in which teachers use laptop computers and other technologies to better track student performance, but it is far from the demand for Perdue to $ 39,000,000.

Require the Ministry of Health Welfare and submit a plan to close the aging Dororthea Dix mental hospital in Raleigh, 30 June 2011.

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