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Published: May 05, 2008 12:30 AM
Modified: May 05, 2008 06:11 AM

Wake to consider school funding plan

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RALEIGH - The Wake County Board of Commissioners is set to discuss a joint proposal today from the Wake Education Partnership and the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce on restructuring school funding.

Presented to the commissioners and the Wake County Board of Education in April, the proposal would put the responsibility for building and maintaining schools in the hands of the commissioners and leave the board of education to plot the course of education policy.

The proposal would also call for a multiyear funding formula for the school system. Budgets now are hashed out between commissioners and the board of education each year.

The proposal's goal is to keep to a minimum the arguments between the commissioners and the school board over construction and budgets, a WakeEd spokeswoman said in April.

The commissioners meet at 2 p.m. today in the Wake County Courthouse.

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