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1	go over this, which was our responsibility, and we
2	accepted it. We worked very closely with those budget
3	people. They raised many questions.
4	I might say while I was in the State Depart-
5	ment, these figures are not just something that the
6	State Superintendent or his staff just draws out of
7	a hat. There are very careful studies made. We follow
8	the birth rate, we follow the immigration as well as
9	the out-migration factors and it's quite a complicated
10	procedure in establishing the independent study that
ii	we made in the State Department for the number of
12	pupils Statewise that we thought necessary.
13	Then we broke it down by counties. Then we
14	asked each county to submit its estimates. We would
15	go back and forth. We sometimes felt some of the
16	counties were too high or too low in some cases. Some
17	were inclined to be a little low, some inclined to be
18	a little high. Sometimes they wash out all right, but
19	we have back and forth, and this thing is very care-
20	fully done through the State Department and the local
21	county superintendents and it seems to me that is the