2The Daily Tar HeelMonday, October 16,1 989
World and Nation
Study how uoecjjual school
By GLENN O'NEAL
Staff Writer
A report released by the North Caro
lina Center for Public Policy Research
reveals an inconsistency in per-pupil
funding in N.C. public schools.
There is a 56 percent difference on
funding spent per pupil from the high
est school system to the lowest, said
Ran Coble, executive director of the
center, an independent, non-profit or
ganization that studies public issues
and evaluates state programs.
A comparison between the 1973-74
and the 1987-88 school years of state,
federal and local funding for education
shows that state funding has remained
consistently 69 percent, he said. Dur
ing the same period, federal funding
Paths
"You shouldn't have research at the
expense of teaching or research just for
research's sake."
Massey said Hardin's University Day
speech expressed what he sees as the
vision of the University.
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has been cut nearly in half, from 14
percent to 7.7 percent. Local funding in
the form of supplements has increased
from 19 percent to 23 percent in order
to pick up the federal difference, he
said.
One of the effects of the funding
difference is the number of course of
ferings, Coble said. A student at Blue
Ridge High School in the Jackson
County School System has 116 fewer
choices in' courses than a student at
Northern Durham High School in the
Durham County School System, he said.
According to a news release sent out
by the center, Jackson County ranks
47th in per-pupil expenditures, while
Durham County ranks 23rd. Durham
County is places sixth in local supple-
speech). To me that is a vision. To me,
there is a difference between specific
things you're going to do and a vision."
But Davis said he felt Hardin was not
leading the University in the right di
rection. "He has not emphasized teach
ing, nor has he made an effort to get to
know members of the General Assem
bly." Hardin also needs to work with the
General Administration and UNC-sys-tem
President CD. Spangler, Davis
said.
"As CD. Spangler says, it's easy to
find one problem and focus on it, but
Chancellor Hardin needs to step back
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ments, while Jackson County comes in
67th.
There are 140 public school systems
in the state.
The funding disparity also affects
the recruiting of qualified teachers for
the systems, Coble said. "Districts that
offer larger local supplements find it
much easier to get the better teachers to
go to their schools. That's a big advan
tage." Kathy Travers, executive director of
the Atlantic Center for Research in
Education, said, "We have found that
there are vast differences between the
counties' ability to supplement state
and federal funds available for educa
tion." The state gives education funds on a
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In reference to Hardin's proposal
earlier this year and speculation that it
might lead to UNC splitting from the
rest of the system, Davis said, "Before
anyone thinks about splitting away from
the UNC system, they must first at
tempt to come up with a better plan for
providing education to North Carolini
ans. I don't think they can find one."
The University also needs to keep
Carolina attractive to faculty, staff and
students, Lewis said. "We should treat
people well and do everything we can
to provide people with the capabilities
to fulfill their tasks."
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per-pupil basis, then counties contrib
ute what they find necessary to supple
ment their school systems, she said.
Counties with a large tax base can tax
their citizens at the same rate as coun
ties with a low tax base and generate far
more money, she said. The end result is
that students in counties with a low tax
base end up with an inferior education.
"Students in the state should get the
same quality of education regardless of
where they live," she said.
Travers said the state should supple
ment counties that do not do as well as
other counties in raising revenue for
education. ,
Coble said some states had a state
equalization fund to help narrow the
gap between counties with different tax
bases. The equalization fund is a spe
cial state fund appropriated only to
school districts with low property val
ues, he said.
The motivation of a student to take
advantage of a school's available re
sources needs to be taken into consid
eration along with the money spent per
child, said Ed Dunlap, associate execu
tive director of the N.C. School Board
Association, Inc.
The General Assembly recently
passed the Educational Accountability
and Improvement Act, which allows
local school boards to develop school
based improvement plans. The plan
allows the schools to spend state funds
to meet student needs, he said. "This
will go a long way to meet the prob
lem." Officials from the N.C Department
of Public Instruction were in meetings
Thursday and could not be reached for
comment.
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Hurricane Jerry menaces
Texas-Louisiana coastline
From Associated Press reports
NEW ORLEANS Tropical
storm Jerry developed into a hurri
cane Sunday and threatened to com
bine with the highest tides of the year
to swamp the Texas-Louisiana coast
with eight feet or more of water.
Thousands were ordered to head for
high ground.
"We're telling our residents to be
prepared for high winds, high tides
and surges, as well as to be prepared
for numerous tornadoes," said Gary
Stone, spokesman for the Emergency
Operations Center at Galveston,
Texas.
Jerry became a hurricane 1 1 0 miles
off Galveston at noon EDT when its
sustained winds hit 75 mph, or 1 mph
above the threshhold, said the Na
tional Hurricane Center in Coral
Gables, Fla.
The hurricane was moving north
northwest about 10 mph and was
expected to cross the upper Texas
coast late Sunday night, with
Galveston the most likely point to be
hit by the storm's center. The city of
200,000 was the site of one of the
worst hurricanes in U.S. history, a
storm that killed 6,000 people in 1900.
Fed plan to contain market panic
WASHINGTON The Federal
Reserve put out the word Sunday that
it stands ready to flood the banking
system with money to prevent the
second-biggest point drop in the his
tory of the stock market from devel
oping into something worse.
The Fed commitment came as the
Bush administration continued its own
efforts to reassure investors reeling
from Friday's 190-point plunge in the
Dow Jones industrial average.
White House Budget Director
Richard Darman, who in recent weeks
has been critical of the Fed's handling
of monetary policy, expressed total
confidence Sunday that the central
bank and other government officials
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contain the market turmoil.
Darman said that Treasury Secre
tary Nicholas Brady, Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan and Rich
ard Breeden, the new chairman of the
Securities and Exchange Commis
sion, were keeping in close contact
monitoring developments.
"I am sure they will do what is
right, what is prudent, what is sen
sible," Darman said in an interview
on ABC's "This Week with David
Brinkley."
Meanwhile, a senior Fed official
said Sunday that the central bank
intended to follow the example that
Greenspan set following the October
1987 market crash.
Anti-apartheid leaders freed
SOWETO, South Africa Eight
leaders of the anti-apartheid move
ment became free men Sunday, seven
of them after at least 25 years in jail,
and told rejoicing supporters that
equality for blacks in South Africa is
in reach.
Walter Sisulu, 77, a friend and
colleague of African National Con-
gress leader Nelson Mandela, proudly
presided over the first news confer
ence held by the organization in South
Africa since it was banned in 1960.
"Our determination has never been
weakened by our long years of im
prisonment," Sisulu told scores of
reporters and hundreds of ANC fol
lowers who packed a church hall.
"We have been strengthened by the
developments in our country and our
own clear vision of the future."
Some in the crowd wept as the
freed prisoners, raising clenched fists,
led their supporters in singing "God
Bless Africa,' ' the anthem of the anti
apartheid movement.
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