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The proposed budget, which reflects a 14.4-percent increase ($2,839 billion) in expenditures over the current two-year budget period, also puts particular emphasis on eco-' nomic development and natural resources. »
Projected spending for the' current two-year budget period, which ends July 31, has been put at $19.7 billion. The fiscal year runs from June 1 to July 31.
Surprisingly, the budget dyes not provide funding for the muchtalked about sex-education curriculum that the State Board of Education has developed for public schools. The statewide program would-cost about $5.5 million in the first year.
Chris - Bridge, a Baliles spokesperson, told reporters that it would be a “mistake” to believe that the spending proposal represents the governor’s last word on the budget.A^he suggested Gov. Baliles might] address the sex-education funding question in his State of the
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