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Rutgers has already begun laying off noninstructional staff members and cutting programs.

Administrative costs include any noninstructional personnel like principals, librarians, nurses and social workers.

But the creation of a K-12 regional district, which dissolves several smaller ones, decreases noninstructional costs.

They could not be reached for comment yesterday, and a telephone call to the union that represents most noninstructional school aides was not returned.

The state found about $18 million in excessive noninstructional expenses, and about 80 percent of that figure is in salaries.

Rewards and sanctions that the governor called for in his address would prompt districts to keep administrative and noninstructional costs low, he added.

The new bond eliminates the expansion of libraries and noninstructional spaces, and an all-day kindergarten.

Attracting parents, elective officials, teachers union members, supervisors and noninstructional workers, the meeting was a watershed in the return of local involvement in the city schools.

"It's noninstructional," she said.

The dean replied that there was a statute of limitations for unions made at a time when "amour - instructional and noninstructional - was in fashion."

Hiring Private Companies His major cost-cutting weapon has been the hiring of private companies to provide noninstructional services, a trend seen across the nation.

The district diverted $2.4 million from noninstructional expenditures into the classroom last year, a feat Dr. Geiger hopes to more than match in his new budget.

The results were startling: in 1996, 63 districts will lose $9.5 million in state aid because they spent more than 30 percent above the statewide average on noninstructional costs.

Also while chancellor, Shalala supported passage of a revised faculty speech code broadly restricting "harmful" speech in both "noninstructional" and "instructional" settings.

The budget includes a cut in four noninstructional staff positions and provides for 15 additional teachers to account for an increase of 1,000 pupils in the last four years.

Mr. Roemer has trimmed $521 million from the budget since his election, including the elimination of 6,900 state jobs and cuts in services ranging from Medicaid to noninstructional school costs.

A spot check of new budgets that councils have already sent to the New Jersey Department of Education for approval shows most have deep cuts aimed at noninstructional spending.

"What concerns me is that taxpayers in other districts in the state are being forced to contribute to noninstructional costs that are excessive, and we think that is unfair," he said.

Under the Equal Access Act, a school receiving Federal funds that allows one or more student noncurriculum-related clubs to meet on its premises during noninstructional time may not refuse access to student religious groups.

In an interview today, Leo Klagholz, Mrs. Whitman's State Education Commissioner, said the department had clarified its terms, and was now referring to the excess spending as related to "noninstructional" areas, rather than "administrative" ones.

It does not prohibit private, personal prayer, the wearing of religious symbols or clothing, the use of religious texts in class for academic purposes, voluntary expression of religious beliefs by students in school assignments, or participation in religious activities during noninstructional time.

"For some reason, Newark seems to employ an inordinate number of noninstructional employees, which, of course, raises criticisms of the sort mentioned by the C.C.I. report, such as nepotism, cronyism and the like," the decision said, referring to the State Education Department's Comprehensive Compliance Investigation report issued last summer.