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| NC Average Estimated Teacher Salary |
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| Total number of NC Administrative Units |
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| In 2007-2008 lottery revenue for education totaled over |
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| LOttery funds do not require local matching and may not be used for... |
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| Funds are distributed to the LEAs based on county property tax and county property tax rate of the _________average property tax rate. |
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| Lottery revenue distributions were in these 4 categories |
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| college scholarships, more-at-four, school construction, class-size reduction |
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| Lottery funds are distributed by |
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| NC providers supplemental funding to systems whose ability to generate local revenue per_____is below the state average. |
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| Factors for low wealth schools are |
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| property tax base, square miles in county, per capita income |
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| In 2008-2009, there were ________low wealth counties in NC. |
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| Name 4 NC house of representatives |
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Virginia Foxx
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Brad Miller
David Price |
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| Name the NC Superintendent of Public Instruction |
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| Name the NC Labor commissioner |
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| Name the NC attorney general |
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| Name the NC insurance commissioner |
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| Name the secretary of state for NC |
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| Name the NC commissioner of agriculture |
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| This budget outlines funding needed for new initiatives and to meet new needs. |
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| What are two types of budget requests? |
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| Continuation and Expansion |
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| Continuation and expansion budgets are submitted to the governor who submits to the ___________. |
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| The General Assembly began _______________Funding in 1991 to help increase disparities in local supplements and local funding because of differences in tax base in different communities. |
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The NC Lottery revenue is allocated as follows:
______%prizes
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| NC has experienced a 31% increase in ___________since 1995. |
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| NC is now the ______most populous state in the nation. |
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| Of the approximately 15000 school districts nationwide, over _______of the school boards have authority to raise their own revenue. |
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| School districts in most states are independent units of_____________. |
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| Maryland, NC, and Virgina represent organizational exceptions as these states school boards are _______of general governments. |
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| School boards are the only elected governing bodies in NC that ________have the ability to raise some or all of their funds. |
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| Each year school boards have taken legal action against county commissions resulting in large and unncessary _____on behalf of both boards. |
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| In 2005 _________ruled unanimously that under the state's constitution NC public schools are entitled to proceeds collected for certain fines and forfeitures, including civil penalties resulting from on-campus vehicle parking and registration violations. |
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| The allotment per ADM in grades K-12 for textbooks is___________. |
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| Under NCLB this provides funds to local school districts to improve the education of disadvantaged students,____________. |
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| Title I is the largest federal funding program supporting elementary and secondary education. Funds are distributed according to a set of four separate formulas: |
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Basic Grant formula
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Education Finance Incentive Grant Formula |
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| NC provides supplemental funding to systems whose ability to generate local revenue per student is below the state average called____________. |
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| There are _______low wealth counties in NC. |
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| Exceptional children/academically/intellectually gifted funding per child is for children with disabilities school-aged 5 thru 21 counted on ___________child count. |
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| The initial state allotment for technology is ______________per ADM but more funds are actually appropriated. |
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| Technology budget category 015 has over _______different subcategories. |
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| The 4 main technology categories are personnel, staff development, communications, and ______________ for technology. |
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| Small county allotment is provided to those school systems with an ADM less than _________or with ADM between ______and 4000 whose county adjusted tax base per student is below the sate adjusted property tax base per student. |
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| In 2008-2009 there were ______counties that received small county allotments. |
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| For the 2009-2010 school year ______percent of the public schools in NC met AYP while _______% did not. |
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| 2009-2010 school year was the _____year of the NC ABCs report. |
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| The state board of education was directed to place a ________moratorium on the ABCs bonuses for the 2009-2010 fiscal year. |
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| ___________schools was designed to help schools improve their overall educational programs by providing resources, training and support called the NC Turnaround Program. |
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| High priority schools began with 2005-2006 school year and will be phased out on __________________. |
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| Low performing schools are defined by the ABCs Accountability system as being schools with fewer than _________% of the students' scores at or above achievement Level III and making less than Expected Growth. |
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| A continually low-performing school is a school that has received State-mandated assistance and has been designated by the State Board as low performing for at least _____of______ consecutive years. |
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| In 1975 the General Assembly enacted a law requiring a ____________system for all local school units effective July 1, 1976. |
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| The Uniform chart provides the Legislature, general public, and other agencies with a consistent guideline of how funds are used by various groups obtaining _____________. |
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| The fund code for state funds is________ |
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| The fund code for local funds is___ |
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| The fund code for federal funds is______ |
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| The fund code for capital funds is__________ |
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| The fund code for child nutrition funds is_____. |
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| Other sources of funding codes are as follows: |
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| The purpose code for funding instructional programs is__________. |
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| The purpose code for funding support services is__________. |
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| The purpose code for funding community service programs is__________. |
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| The purpose code for funding non-programmed charges is__________. |
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| The purpose code for funding capital outlay is__________. |
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| The object code for funding salaries is__________. |
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| The object code for funding purchased services is__________ |
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| The object code for funding supplies and materials is__________ |
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| The object code for funding equipment and captial outlay is__________ |
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In the following finance code what is the does the first number respresent:
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| The first number respresents that the source if from State funds. |
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In the following finance code what is the does the 2nd series of numbers respresent:
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5110 would mean instructional programs. |
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In the following finance code what is the does the 3rd series of numbers respresent:
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| 001 would represent the program in this case, classroom teachers. |
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In the following finance code what is the does the 4th series of numbers respresent:
1-5110-001-125 |
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| 4th series of numbers would represent the object codes. Anything starting with a 1 in the 4th series is for salaries. |
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| All expenditures must have an _________digit account code! |
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| Equal protection analysis arise in 2 basic contexts, one occurs when a __________constitutional right is infringed, particularly those listed in the Bill of Rights and those the court has deemed a fundamental right protected by the 14th amendment. |
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| Equal protection analysis arise in two basic contexts, one when the government action involves the useof a ______________such as race or national origin that may render it void under the Equal Protection Clause. |
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| The Equal Protection Clause of the _____________Amendment says no State shall deny to any person within it jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. |
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| It is part of ______________analysis that a federal court will employ when either a suspect class or a fundamental right is involved. |
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| It is a form of constitutional review tha tis used to determine the validity of _______that discriminates on the basis of suspect categories, such as race. |
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| Currently the only suspect classficiation to which strict scrutiny applies are race, religion, and ________.Sexual orientation has been given a quasi-suspect classification. |
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| Rational basis is the lowest form of ________ ___________. |
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| Judicial scrutiny is used in cases where a plantiff alleges that the legislature has made an arbitrary or _________ ____________. |
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| The rational basis test involves claims that do not involve a _________ _____and involve a liberty interest rather than a fundamental right. |
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| The __________Case was first initiated in 1968 in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California. |
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| The Serrano Case caused states to analyze their own school ________structure as it relates to equalizing funding and to local gov'ts ability to pay. |
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| The Serrano Case established important principles that have framed the continuing struggle for educational __________in states. |
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| The ____________Case was initiated in Texas in federal district court in 1968. |
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| During the San Antonio case it was ruled that the system of funding education does not violate the US Consitution because the Constitution does not mention _________. Funding of education is a state decision. |
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| The San Antonio case enacted a series of _______reforms but failed to reduce effectively the interdistrict inequities in access to resources per pupil expenditures and tax rate. |
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| The ________court case was first initiated in the New Jersey Superior Court in 1970 and was based on a 98 year old constitutional mandate that all children get a thorough and efficient free public educaiton. |
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| The Robinson Case gave states the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that students receive a _______and _______education. |
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| The Robinson case , since 1973 has initiated ________cases related to thorough and efficient education with six different governors in office. |
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| The __________case initiated in 1994 when a lawsuit was filed by NC parent, children and school districts in 5 low-wealth rural counties against the state of NC. It was renamed in the US Supreme court in 1997. |
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| The Leandro case ruled that all school districts provide an ______education and a quality education for all education. |
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| In the Leandro case, Judge Manning stated that both the _____and State are responsibile for correcting violations to student success, ultimately putting responsibility on the State. |
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| The basis of school finance litigation has begun to shift from equity and fairness to securing the resources necessary to provide an _________ _________ to all students. |
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| ____________lawsuits focus on how much money is needed to provide all students in a state with a constitutionally guaranteed education. |
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| _________________ suits seek a higher level of funding for all students and thus avoid pitting districts against one another. |
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| The fiscal year begins on _______and ends on __________. |
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| The superintendent must submit the budget and the budget message to the board of education not later than _________. |
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| The board of county commissioners shall complete its action on the school budget on or before ____or such later date as may be agreeable to the board of education. |
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| Each local administrative unit shall establish and maintain an accounting system design to show in detail its__________,_______,_______,_________, and ________. |
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| assests, liabilities, equities, revenues, and expenditures |
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| Local administrative units shall use the __________ accrual basis of accounting in recording transactions. |
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| A local school administrative unit may deposit at interest or invest all or part of the _______ balance of any fund. |
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| The _________officer shall manage investments subject to whatever restrictions and direction s the Board of Education may impose. |
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| Each officer, employee and agent of a local admin unit or individual school whose duty it is to collect or receive any taxes or other moneys shall deposit his collections and receipts_____. |
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| If the Board of Education give its approval, deposits shall be required only whent eh moneys on hand amount to as much as $_______, but in any event a deposit shall be made on the _______business day of the month. |
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| Each school finance officer shall report to the Secretary of the Local Government Commission on _________and _______ of each year. |
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| One duty of a principal is to ________ and _______ pupils. |
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| The Principal should improve ________and _________spirit. |
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| The Principal should conduct _____ drills and inspect for fire hazards. |
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| The Principal is to protect school _________. |
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| The principal shall report certain acts to_______ ____________. |
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| The Principal is to _________student records. |
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| The Principal is to establish school ____________teams. |
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| State funds allocated for classroom materials/instructional supplies/equipment may be transferred only for the purchase of __________. |
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| State funds allocated for textbooks may be transferred for the purchase of instructional supplies, instructional equipment, or other __________materials. |
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| State funds allocated for noninstructional support may be transferred for ______positions only. |
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| Representatives to the SIP team shall be selected by _____ballot. |
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| Parents serving on the SIP team shall reflect the ________and socioeconomic composition of the students enrolled in that school and shall not be members of the building level staff. |
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| The SIP shall require kindergarten and first grade to notify parents or guardians when their chidl is not _____at grade level by the time the child enters second grade. |
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| The SIP may include a decision to use __________funds. |
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| The SIP shall include a plan to provide ________lunch period for every teacher on a daily basis or as otherwise approved by the SIP team. |
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| The SIP shall include a plan to provide duty-free instructional planning time for every teacher, with the goal of providing at least _____ hours of planning time each week. |
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| By ______of each year, the principal shall disclose to all affected personnel the total allocation of all funds available to staff development. |
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| Lottery funds are based on ADM as a _________of state ADM and property tax rate based on statewide average. |
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| Your LEA Name and Number? |
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Carteret County
160 |
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| Your LEA Total Lottery Distributions.... |
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Carteret County $810,535 |
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| True/False: The Purchase of land for public school buildings is an allowable type of captial outlay. |
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Planning design fees funds can be use as an allowable type of captial outlay projects.
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Construction funds are an allowable type of captial outlay project.
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Renovation and enlargement are allowable use of funds for capital outlay projects.
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Repair is a use of funds for a captial outlay project.
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School technology (from tax funds not lottery) are an allowable type of fund for capital outlay.
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| A continualy low performing school is a school that received state mandated assistance and has been designated by the State Board as low peforming at least __of____consecutive years. |
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