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positions include the school treasurers, secretaries, SIMS operators (student information), janitorial staff, maintenance staff, and other critical support staff at the school sites. This must cover substitute costs for teachers as welh Currently the State provides less than half the total funding required for these support positions in our district. The new state mandated student information management system, named NC Wise, will require even more local resources to implement, Textbooks: The State budget has not provided sufficient student growth funding for many years, As an example, the state currently provides $58.30 per student per year for textbooks. This funding is primarily meant to help the district obtain new textbooks from the five-year adoption cycle (each subject area rotates on a five-year basis for new textbooks). The state does not provide funding to cover a complete "set" of textbooks for a district's growth. If LAPS grows each year by 400 students, we need to provide those students with a "set" of textbooks to cover all of their subjects, On average, this set of textbooks will cost the district $500 per student or a total of $200,000. We are presently receiving $1.8 million from state funds while supplementing this allocation with $445,50.3 in local dollars annually. Instructional Supplies: The state provides $47.44 per student in instructional supply funding for the entire year. These funds are supplemented by local funds of approximately $83.11 per child. The state needs to provide more resources for instructional supplies, Instructional Technoloey: The state currently provides only $.3.64 per student for technology which is a decrease in funding from FY 200.3-04 (the amount was $5.59 per student), This year's total state allocation for Durham Public Schools is $112,148. This is inadequate to even paztially fund the techmology program of PPS. This is an area that is heavily supplemented from local funding. Salary and Benefit Increases: Sy Statute, all public school employees are "state" employees, Irr order to utilize funding appropriately from the various sources (local, state, federal, grants), the school system camlot separate salary increases for those employees who may be paid from other funding sources. As such, the county picks up the tab for any state-legislated salary increases and benefit adjustments for the public school employees who aze paid from local funds, 2