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superintendents and local staffs in the counties be
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the one that would be responsible and come up with a
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firm figure that we could count on and not thinking
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that down in the legislature, that the Governor or
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budget people could just arbitrarily, and I'm not
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saying they would, but it could happen, reduce the
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amount and then the budget goes through, even though
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the legislature has passed certain laws, they could
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reduce the budget and in turn that would affect our
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employment or the number of teachers we would want to
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have, whether we would want to get experienced teachers
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or beginning teachers.
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It could tie our hands if we knew our allot-
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ment of the total State aid was going to be reduced by
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somebody who wanted to. We would look to the State
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Department to fulfill this responsibility.
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Now, this thing could happen, Mr. Case. We
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could have a Governor or budget department where maybe
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they weren't sympathetic to some part of the State aid
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budget, such as handicapped children. They could say,
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well, you shouldn't expand that. You shouldn't take
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