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Wednesday, September 9, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
State proposes $40 million in additional aid to schools
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The state Board of Education Legislative Committee, in the shadow of a special session that failed to produce a comprehensive highway bill because of potential tax increases, yesterday put the finishers' budget proposal calling for a $40 million increase in school aid to schools.
Board members see it as a way to ease the tax burden for property owners.
"The concern is that the property tax burden is almost at its limit in most school districts," said board member Connie Hubbell of Topeka.
Board members want to shift that burden away from the property tax and believe it can be done by using the anticipated revenues from the federal income tax reform windfall to increase state aid to education.
The proposed budget will increase state school equalization aid by $40 million and increase the overall general fund budget by 6 percent, in part because of an increase in student enrollment.
"I think we can justify the need, because the budget was reduced 3.8 percent just one year ago." Hubbell said.
The state would increase its funding by 10.3 percent over current levels under the proposed budget.
The state currently contributes $456 million in general aid to the state's 305 local school districts. The board wants to increase that figure to $496 million.
The increase in state equalization aid is intended to eliminate substantial increases in property taxes and permit school districts to increase teachers' salaries to a level comparable to the national average. Teachers have been stable in Kansas, Hubbell said, but have not been increased in two years.
Board member Richard Robl of Hutchinson, while supporting the proposal, said it will take aggressive salesmanship to persuade lawmakers to increase the state's aid to local schools.
"Anytime you ask for money, our Legislature will review it very care-
tully," said Dale Dennis, assistant education commissioner. "I think the Legislature might be sympathetic to holding down the property tax to a reasonable level."
The area vocational-technical schools have not received funds for building maintenance or equipment in the last two years, Hubbell said.
reasonable for the board also will recommend that area vocational-technical schools receive $2 million in state capital outlay to maintain facilities and equipment on campus.
in the last two years.
A number of the area school facilities are older than 20 years and in need of repair, said Dennis.
The board is expected to formally act on the proposed budget today and send it to Gov. Mike Hayden later this month.
Hubbell said the state Board of Education will advocate that money from the windfall tax, funds the state will receive because of changes in the federal income tax, be used to pay at least a portion of the state's funding. The state will receive an estimated $135 million in windfall.
Cabinet offers resignations Customary move follows Peronist victories in Argentina
The Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The Cabinet offered to resign so President Raul Alfonsin can make whatever changes he feels necessary after last weekend's election losses to the Peronists, Vice President Victor Martinez said yesterday.
The eight ministers made the customary gesture after a meeting late Monday at Alfonsin's official residence in suburban Olivos, and the president has not yet decided to accept any of the resignations, Martinez said.
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Allisonn has not made a public statement on the elections. Spokesman Jose Ignacio Lopez said he would not act precipitously after his Radical Civic Union's losses in gubernatorial and legislative contests.
Ignacio Lopez said the president is analyzing the results.
regime.
Official sources said Alfonsoin would address the nation tomorrow, applauding Argentines for clean elections and reaffirming the success of democracy four years after his civilian government replaced a military
regime.
His party lost 12 seats and its three-vote majority in the 254-member House of Deputies. The Peronists also picked up four governorships from the Radicals in Sunday's elections and now hold 16 of the nation's 22.
Peronists still trail the Radicals in the lower house by 107 seats to 118. A small rightist free-market party, the Center Democratic Union, gained enough to become the nation's third-ranking party, and leftist factions lost ground.
It is the practice in Argentina for the Cabinet to offer a mass resignation after an election loss so the president can make changes without the necessity of dismissing ministers.
Economy Minister Juan Sourrourolle, architect of an unpopular economic recovery plan, also is said to be in trouble. The inflation rate for the last 12 months was 126 percent and the cost of living went up 13.7 percent in
"We've put our ministerial jobs up to the discretion of the president," said Conrado Storani, who is health and social affairs minister and is among those rumored to be on the way out. Debilitating strikes, many involving doctors and hospitals, occurred in the weeks before the elections.
"If it's necessary, the ministers will go because adjustments and modifications obviously have to be made," Martinez said yesterday.
Argentina is the developing world's third-largest foreign debt behind Brazil and Mexico, owing 350 creditors $33 billion. The foreign debts of the other two are more than $100 billion each.
Sourrouille restructured about $34 billion of the debt this year at more favorable interest rates.
Another member expected to leave the Cabinet is Labor Minister Carlos Alderate, a Peronist appointed in June in an attempt to assuage the labor-based opposition party.
Foreign Minister Dante Caputo is expected to remain on the job.
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