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;: <br />1990, the proportions ranged from 7.1 percent to 17.1 <br />percent of ADM. As of June 1, 1990, 33 percent of local <br />districts were over the 12.5 percent funding cap on <br />handicapped children in terms of the children they served, <br />although the state as a whole was.well below the 12.5 <br />percent Cap. By the same token, the proportion of <br />academically gifted students funded would be expected to <br />remain below 3.9 percent of ADM, on average, because the <br />state's funding formula limits each local district to 3.9 <br />percent of its ADM. Although the academically gifted as a <br />percentage of local ADM ranged from .6 percent to 15.5 <br />percent in June, 1990, districts generally identify far mare <br />students as academically gifted-than are funded. Indeed, 84 <br />percent of local districts were over the 3.9 percent cap in <br />1990. <br />Other trends noted in this study include the fact that <br />in North Carolina the academically gifted consistently <br />represent the largest category of exceptional students <br />served. Second, all other categories of exceptionality have <br />experienced steady increases over time except for the <br />Mentally handicapped category, which has seen a decided <br />decrease in proportion of students served. The <br />Behaviorally /Emotionally Handicapped (B /EH) category has <br />experienced a substantial increase with the proportion of <br />the population sewed as B /EH nearly doubling over the 158=- <br />. , <br />90 period studied. we anticipate no decline in the <br />identification rates of handicapped children, given the <br />