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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has asked school systems to create proposed 3 percent, 5 percent and 7 percent budget cuts in state funding when creating a 2009-10 budget.
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Like many other agencies, Newton-Conover City Schools knows that it, too, has to cut some of the fat in its budget.
Board members for Hickory Public Schools took a first look at its budget for the 2009-10 school year at their work session Monday night, and cuts could be made in nearly every department due to the widening state budget crisis.
Eleven-year-old Beny Filp from Sweetwater Elementary School raised a blue sword as a brown dragon lunged at him. Flip dodged a few close calls before he finally slayed it.
After being told by the state in November that they'd have to trim their budgets, the school systems in Catawba County have decided which programs and departments will see cuts.
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