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ATTACHMENT B <br /> > STATE AND LOCAL SCHOOL FUNDING IN NORTH CAROLINA: <br /> A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE <br /> North Carolina's first state constitution in 1776 included SUN <br /> an education provision that stated, "A School or Schools .)� a ■ <br /> A.ENERGy <br /> shall be established by the Legislature for the convenient <br /> Instruction of Youth." The legislature provided no financial A3 <br /> support for schools. �z��� <br /> — �- �� <br /> A century later, the constitution adopted after the Civil War <br /> required the state to provide funding for all children ages 6-21 _ <br /> to attend school tuition-free. In 1901, the General Assembly - ■ I <br /> appropriated $100,000 for public schools, marking the first 1 r <br /> time there was a direct appropriation of tax revenue for 1 <br /> public schools. Today, the constitution mandates that the • <br /> state provide a "general and uniform system of free public t) ` 4*11.0 <br /> schools" and that the state legislature may assign counties mil _ - <br /> such responsibility for the financial support of the free public <br /> schools as it may deem appropriate." N.C. Const. art. IX, § 2 - -4, <br /> (see note, "Sources of Local School Finance Law: The North _ � s <br /> Carolina State Constitution"). i , <br /> miiiii The constitution adopted after the Civil War required 1 4. <br /> i <br /> the state to provide funding for all children ages 6-21 <br /> to attend school tuition-free. <br /> 1 <br /> ISOURCES OF LOCAL SCHOOL FINANCE LAW: <br /> THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONSTITUTION <br /> Article IX, Sec.2. Uniform system of schools. <br /> (1) General and uniform system:term.The General Assembly shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general <br /> and uniform system of free public schools,which shall be maintained at least nine months in every year, and wherein <br /> equal opportunities shall be provided for all students. (2) Local responsibility.The General Assembly may assign <br /> to units of local government such responsibility for the financial support of the free public schools as it may deem <br /> appropriate.The governing boards of units of local government with financial responsibility for public education <br /> may use local revenues to add to or supplement any public school or post-secondary school program. <br /> >6 <br />