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Vi <br />education services as regular education, North Carolina <br />expends only about 1.6 times as much. <br />We estimate that in current dollars approximately $100 <br />million would be required to fully meet the goal of bringing <br />North Carolina's expenditures for exceptional students in <br />line with national cost estimates.. We recommend that the <br />Board establish a plan to meet this goal by requesting <br />increases in the exceptional child appropriations for each <br />of the next five years. Such a plan would require annual <br />increases on the order of $20 million. <br />2. MAINTAXN THE CURRENT ARRANGEXENT OF FUNDING BOTH <br />EM=ICAPPED AND GIFTED PROGRAMS AS PART OF A LARGER <br />EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENiS PROGRAM. <br />The literature demonstrates that funding gifted <br />programs with special education or in a manner similar to <br />special education is not unusual among the states. In <br />contemplating this issue, we considered econQmy of scale and <br />the need for local flexibility to be advantages to <br />maintaining the current arrangement. <br />3. MAKE REFINEMENTS IN THE CURRENT �`.ETHOD OF <br />ALLOCATING FUNDS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN,s PROGRAMS WITH <br />MORE DETAILED_STUDY OF TEE IMPLICATIONS OP A SYSTEM WHICH <br />WEIGHTS ALLOCATION$ ON THE BASIS OF SEVERITY OF <br />BXCEPTIONALITY AND-WEALTH OF, THE LOCAL SCHOoT,, DISTRICT. <br />We do not recommend major changes in the allocation <br />methods for the 7,991 -93 bienni=. However, for the longer <br />term, some fora of weighting system which provides increased <br />