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Resolution ion Support of Taxing Authority WFD REA,S, over 80 % of the boards of education in the United States are fiscally independent; and W + RRAS, North Carolina has a unique mcftd of finding public education by PUcin8 the control of educational policy with Ioaal hoards of education while requiring the BOY erning bodies of local govern unrnts to appropriate funds for educational purposes; and W MREA,S, the existing school funding atra ug mumt in North Carolina omen puts elected members of the board of education at odds with the budgetary and taxing deddonis of anotbw locally elected body elected by the .Same canstituency; and WHMKL4S, the decisions concerning the local needs of an individual school system shad be made by those who are the most kno wledgeatcte about school system needs; and WHEREAS, members of local boards of education are elected to be the educational leaders and decision-makers in their communities and have the legal duty to provide " adequate educational services to all children; and WHMF AS, the North Carolina Suprem Court, under %eadro, has hell that students, in North Carolina have a state constitutional right to a sound basic education; and , aehool boards are not in a position to fulfill their ~on to provide a sound basic fthumbon without the ability m raise necessary finds to provide these educational service; and WHEREAS, over recent years, the North Carolina Gene al Assembly and the State Board of Education have made adnzinistratoaa, teachers and stun tents moue accountable for the tonal progress of all school aged d9ldren in North Carolina, and WHBREAS, until local boards of education are granted tax levying qty, they ca mot reasonably be held accountable if their school systems are not Willing the needs of the children in their districts;