2007-08 Adopted Plan - Wake County Public School System

Budget HighlightsFederal Grants FundThe federal funding budget for 2007-08 is $56,965,065, which is adecrease of $1,629,908 or three percent from 2006-07.The federal budget included in the Plan for Student Success was builtbased on grant awards from 2006-07, including an estimate of carryoveramounts. Federal grants typically have different fi scal years than thoseof the school district. Therefore, carryover funds will occur.Federal Months of Employment ComparisonFY2005-06FY2006-07FY2007-08Increase/(Decrease)PercentAdministration 148.00 72.00 60.00 (12.00) (17%)ProfessionalEducator5,419.00 5,286.00 5,257.50 (28.50) (1%)Professional654.20 553.04 552.04 (1.00) 0%- OtherTechnical 1,999.00 1,975.00 1,961.00 (14.00) (1%)Offi ce/Clerical 102.00 97.50 97.50 0.00 0%Other 186.50 11.00 11.00 0.00 0%Total 8,508.70 7,994.54 7,939.04 (55.50) 1%special education services are served in full-time programs that require aclassroom teacher assistant. Additionally, some students require a oneon-oneteacher assistant to meet their individual needs.Also, the Occupational Course of Study (OCS), one of the four pathwaysleading to a diploma, requires fi eld-based training and employmentexperiences (600 hours/student). Due to increases in the number ofstudents served in the OCS program, one transition training facilitatorfor each new high school and four additional positions for four new sitesare needed to provide the required fi eld-based training for OccupationalCourse of Study students.For the 2007-08 school year, 45.4 additional teacher assistant andtransition training facilitator positions are needed. Local and state fundingwill be required to fund the required teacher assistant and transitiontraining facilitator positions.Often special education students require related services. A total of 16.5local positions, including three occupational therapists, one physicaltherapist, a half-time audiologist, and twelve speech therapists, arerequired for the 2007-08 school year to meet the needs of some studentswith disabilities.Positions funded with federal carryover dollars are recurring costs to thesystem and will require local support for subsequent years.Special education growth from April 2001 to April 2006 averaged 4.3percent per year. The April 2006 special education child count indicatesthat more than 15 percent of projected student growth will require specialeducation services.Using a projected ratio of one teacher per 13 new students and a projectedincrease in 2007-08 of 1,216 students, 94 new special education teacherswill be required to meet the needs of the additional students. In addition,18.7 positions are needed for the schools being converted to year round.Of the 112.7 positions needed, 93.7 can be funded with the projectedincrease in state funds and 19 positions will require local funding.State and federal funds are not available to cover all required positions.State funding is capped at 12.5 percent, and federal dollars do notprovide full funding. Twenty to twenty-fi ve percent of students receiving20Budget 2007-08 $56,956,065Budget 2006-07 $58,585,973Decrease ($1,629,908)Multiple Enterprise FundThe multiple enterprise fund includes the Child Nutrition program andother self-supporting programs such as Before- and After-School Care,Summer Camp, and Preschool Programs. Tuition or fees solely supportthese programs. We charge indirect costs at the unrestricted maximumrate of 13.995 percent on these programs.