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pays off old notes with equal lump sums, the interest on the remainder of the notes decreases.
Instruction is up from $3.2 million to $3.5 million, but it decreased as a percentage of the budget from 73.2 percent to 72.4 percent, this occurs'Q*en though the budget includes two additional teachers, another elementary classroom teacher and a special education teacher for the elementary school. Also the Spanish teacher’s position is increased from part-time to full-time.
Probably the reason instruction is down as a percentage of the budget is that teachers and teachers’ aides will not be getting the step increases their experience entitles them to under the salary scales.
If the budget had been based on the expected enrollment of 1,030 instead of 1,010, the local cost for the budget would have been increased by $56,600, more than enough to fund the step increases for bus drivers as well as teachers and teachers' aides. This would also require $24,400 from the state.
These employees, like all others, will be getting a significant increase in take-home pay, because under the proposed budget, the school system, rather then the employees, will be
73.6%