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DR. SENSENBAUGH: Ho has no discretion, other
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than the fact that the figures can be refined by going
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through his Budget Bureau and Mr. Perkins, for instance,
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being an analyst, has every right to check our figures for
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statistics purposes and so does the —
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THE CHAIRMAN: I think the important thing here
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is that when the provision was put in the Constitution,
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there were either bracket State appropriations to the
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Board of Education or it was done generally through a
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budget request made by tha State Department of Education
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in terms of so many dollars needed for certain purposes.
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Now, today that is not true. There has been
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a great evolution in the way in which the school system
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is financed.
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Starting with the Sherbow Commission report,
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you had the institution of a series of grants in aid formulae
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which together with equalization are supposed to make up
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the basic program, and I don't see how the Governor could
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change the amount of dollars called for by the application
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of those formulae, even though this provision we're talking
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about is out of the Constitution. So, my point is hasn't
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