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state than anticipated. That won’t become clear until after the fiscal year ends on June 30. But basic aid per pupils for 1983-84 is $6 more than expected, which works out to over $6,000 at current enrollment figures. In addition, the county has received more than projected for special education, vocational education and sales tax revenue.
The School Board must go before the supervisors in June to ask for authority to transfer, funds within cat-, egories of the school budget. We suggest that the School Board also ask for a supplemental appropriation — not to exceed the unexpected windfall that now rests in the county’s coffers — to at least restore the $4,500 cut from the instructional allowance at the elementary school.
Principal Maggie Pipper won’t go on a spending spree. If the money is restored, Pipper will follow through on her original plans — made last year when she thought she would be getting $22,000 — to purchase computers for the elementary school. The computers are necessary if our children are to achieve the technological literacy called for by the National Commission on Excellence in Education.
The school budget cuts were made to spare the county taxpayer. The county taxpayer has been spared. We now have additional state money sent from Richmond for education programs in the county’s general fund. It’s seems only fair that at least a small portion of that money go for education.
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