| Fitzsimon File:
Monday numbers
By Chris Fitzsimon
459 million—amount in dollars the budget approved by the 2011-2012 General Assembly cut in public school funding (Report on Continuation, Expansion and Capital Budgets, House Bill 22, N.C. General Assembly 2011 session)
347 million—amount in dollars the budget approved by the 2011-2012 General Assembly cut in funding for the university system (Ibid)
117— amount in dollars the budget approved by the 2011-2012 General Assembly cut in funding for the community college system (Ibid)
923—amount in dollars the budget approved by the 2011-2012 General Assembly cut in total funding education (Ibid)
49th—ranking of North Carolina in per pupil spending in education after cuts made by the General Assembly in 2011-2012 budget (Office of Governor Beverly Perdue, “Unless We Act, North Carolina Schools Will Lose Hundreds of Millions of Dollars of Additional Funding Next Year,” January 20, 2012) [Read more...]
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