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it. He is a very good lawyer, too, I might add. You may
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never get that in the record again, Steve.
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MR. RAVER; Let me point out, you sec, a part
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of the problem here is knowing how this school finance
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business works. We have a State foundation minimum program
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which guarantees that every child will have a certified
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teacher, 180 days of school, et cetera, and these are the
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bases, statutory bases on which the State Board of Educa-
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tion, including the State Superintendent, must prepare a
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budget and submit it to the governor. We have talked
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about the estimates, and the fact that they are subjective
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to some degree, and I won't repeat that discussion, but
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let us say now the Board of Education goes to the governor,
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as we are right now for fiscal '67 End says, We ere pro-
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jecting this budget, $348 per pupil times 800,000 pupils.
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That is the key figure in your basic calculation. Then,
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the next thing they have to do is break this down on the
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basis of 45 professionals. This means anybody from Assis-
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tant Superintendent to principal, vice-principal and class-
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room teachers. Break this down to a requirement of 45
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professionals per 1000 students, or roughly, 800 times 45.
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