The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 19

turn 1 down the heat warm up to savings! TEACHERS GET INCREASE THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Jane 10, 1974 19-A Coggin, Floyd Favor Raises for all State Employes By SHARON BAILEY $34 million in general vation, and Nix estimated that cluding an allotment for li- ment for various vocational as earlier because the federal capital utlay or the staff- dents in average daily attendsome obligation bonds, to be retired to build all new classrooms brary services for the blind, education programs than government has increased its development program. ance. Two high-ranking state at about $3 million a year, for needed and to replace all may also disappear, he said, Carter recommended. support for the lunch prolegislators "at least The department has already This would "put the responWednesday said education construction. obsolete schools the state pleading for $85,000 -Funds for improving gram.

studied construction needs in sibility on the local boards to would have to lay out more the if you don't give speech therapy programs at money for school all but 25 school systems, and assign the legislators Wednesday for blind number of teachers that all state employes should This would include $36. than $131 million us anything else." the Georgia School for the construction. five of those are scheduled for needed for vocational educaa pay year In going through the budget, Deaf. -An additional $25,000 for assessment, Nix said. tion get raise next if million for local school conteachers get a raise.

struction, $1.7 million for pub- Nix also warned that Geor- and special education, lic and $2.3 could be hard hit next Nix pointed out nmuerous pro- for job placement the Professional Practices The superintendent asked and eliminate a tremendous State Sen. Frank E. Coggin, for vocational- year the loss of federal grams deleted by the gver- in high schools. Commission, which deals with the legislators to simplify the amount of paperwork," Nix library buildings, gia chairman of Appro- funds it nor and asked for funds. -More money for charges of teacher incompe- now-complicated formula by said.

million area by programs technical schools. originally expected to pupil priations Committee, and For the first time, some of Among them: transportation. Nix noted that tency. which teachers area I lotted to Nix also sked for pocket. more James H.

"Sloppy" the bond money for school The state almost certainly -The 5.9 per cent hike in some school systems are hav- -More, money for a state- systems. money but did not specify Floyd, chairman of the House construction could be used tc will lose $1.7 million it count- the teacher's pay scale the de- ing trouble making ends meet sponsored staff Following the several sec- an exact amount for GeorAppropriations Committee, renovate existing facilities in ed on for instructional materi- partment seeking. because of the rising cost of ment program to improve tions that make up the present gia's equalization program, is Appropriations Committee, addition to building new ones, als and another $1.9 million -Funds for an expansion of gasoline. teaching. Nix urged the law- formula, the systems end up with which the state attempts said they favored an across- officials noted.

for library materials is also in the state-supported kindergar- -A 1.5 per cent increase in makers to transfer $200,000 with about one teacher for to equalize the money availthe board hike for all state The department had re doubt, he said. ten program for handicapped state support for school the governor is proposing for each 23 students, Nix said, able to school systems per employes "if the funds 'can be quested $54.9 million for Another $691,000 in federal children. lunches. But Nix noted that in- a statewide assessment of proposing a flat formula of student with enrichment school construction and reno- funds for public libraries, in- -More teachers and equip- crease is not as critical now school construction needs into one teacher for every 22 stu- grants for poorer systems. Committeoint Appropriations its fourth day of hearings on Gov.

Jimmy Carter's proposed austerity budget for fiscal 1975 Thursday. A bare-bones fiscal document designed to account for the beating state revenues are expected to take as a result of the energy crisis, Carter's budget proposes no raises for teachers or other state employes. Coggin said his own first priority is to try to continue "im some form" hte one shot $50 million ad valorem tax rebate which the legislature voted last year, and a second priority is a state pay raise. The state is appealing a court ruling which declared the tax rebate was unconstitutional. A 5 per cent pay hike for teachers, university system personnel and other state employes would cost $43 to $44 million, estimated, making a $93 to $94 million total with the addition of a tax rebate at last year's level.

"It doesn't seem possible now to find that much in funds, but it does seem possible to do some of both," Coggin said. "Inflation alone will eat up most of what we can give them in salary increases." The joint appropriations panel listened Wednesday to a second day of testimony from State School Supt. Jack Nix, who asked that many of the items cut from the education budget by Carter be restored. Last September, the State Board of Education approved a list of priorities for education that placed classroom construction first, kindergartens sixth and a teacher's pay raise tenth. But Nix told the panel the priorities were drawn up before the energy crisis hit, when the board expected some $60 million more for education next year.

Nix is expected to ask the board, which meets Thursday, to reconsider its priorities and perhaps choose four or five to Carter is proposing an education budget of $575 million for fiscal 1975, $11.7 million below last year's figure and $204 million below the department's request. The cut is particularly hard for educa. tion officials to take after a plump $104 million increase from the legislature last year. At one point Wednesday, Nix was asked by State Terrell Starr if it were true that Georgia students were one year behind the national average in basic skills by the fourth grade and two years behind by the eighth grade. Obviously discomfited by the question, Nix acceded the point, but took issue with broad national rankings for failing to specify programs bein evaluated.

"I don't think we're 011 the bottom in vocational or special education, or in the lunch program," Nix said. think we're number one in the "But we have to admit our failures if we're going to get money improvements," Starr responded The Carter bulget includes Mrs. Sarnoff, RCA Chief's Widow, Dies NEW YORK (AP) Mrs. David Sarnoff, 79, widow of the former chairman of RCA, has died here following a brief illness. Mrs.

Sarnoff died Tuesday night. The Sarnoffs were married July 4, 1971, when Sarnoff was a young executive with the Marconi Wireless Co. of America, the predecessor of RCA. Sarnoff died Dec. 12, 1971.

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