233.2 million—amount in dollars that the Senate budget proposal cuts funding for teacher assistants for 2014-2015 school year. (“Senate budget deals with self-imposed budget challenge by eviscerating TAs and critical areas of health and human services,” Progressive Pulse, May 29, 2014)

7,400—number of teacher assistants positions affected by the funding cuts in the Senate budget proposal (Ibid)

110 million—amount in dollars of the funding cut for the teacher assistants for the 2014-2015 school year in the two-year budget passed last summer (Ibid)

70—number of school nurses cut in the Senate budget (Ibid)

30—percentage of funding for the Department of Public Instruction cut in the Senate budget (Ibid)

28 million—amount in dollars of funding cut to drivers education program in the Senate budget (Ibid)

390 million—amount in dollars cut from overall education spending in Senate budget to help pay for average 11 percent salary increase for teachers who forfeit career status protections (“Senate leaders defend education cuts, WRAL-TV, May 29, 2014)

0—amount in dollars of new funding in the Senate budget for textbooks (“Breaking down key NC Senate budget proposals,” News& Observer May 29, 2014)

15—amount in dollars of total funding per student for textbooks in Senate budget (Ibid)

35—amount in dollars of minimum cost per textbook, printed or digital (Ibid)

3,342—number of aged, blind or disabled people who would lose their Medicaid health care coverage under the Senate budget (“Senate plan means Medicaid cuts, changes to DHHS,” WRAL-TV, May 29, 2014)

11,886—number of aged, blind or disabled people who would lose their Medicaid eligibility under county special assistance programs in the Senate budget (Ibid)

34—percentage cut in technology funding for the court system in the Senate budget (“Justice suffers again in Senate budget, N.C Policy Watch, May 29, 2014)

438 million—amount in dollars of the cost of the tax cuts passed last summer built into the initial revenue forecast for the 2014-2015 budget (“Raising the Bar in the Budget Debate: North Carolina should rebuild for the future, not cut back,” N.C. Budget & Tax Center, May 2014)

191 million—amount in dollars of the additional cost of tax cuts passed last summer built into the budget for 2014-2015 (Ibid)