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Ken Barnes is taking that over. He's much more energetic
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and forward looking, but that 4,000,000, which roughly
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half of that is Federal funds, we do have jurisdiction over
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State funds and jurisdiction over how much Federal funds
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we should accept.
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Now, you get to aid to education. These are
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where the mandatory things come in, which are mostly as a
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result of a formula under the lav; passed by the legislature
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The first one is classroom expenses, which is almost
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$102,000,000 and that is under the formula set up from time
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to time by the legislature for schoolteachers, books and
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operating expenses and things of that nature. We do not
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attempt to screen that, only from the standpoint of whether
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we think their population estimates, which is an integral
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part of this formula, the biggest part of it, whether we
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agree they are good estimates or not.
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THE CHAIRMAN: But, even if you thought they
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weren't good estimates, you would be powerless to change
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it.
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MR. RENNIE: No. Under an opinion of the
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Attornev General, we can do this. This is one of Paul
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