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The committee will ask to amend this section to

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clear doubts in the minds of some who have expressed them

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that the word "provided" be amended to "promote", thereby

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alleviating this difficulty.

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To deny a commitment to this concept of equality

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of educational opportunity, is to make the entire demo-

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cratic process of an informed citizen a sheer mockery.

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The General Assembly has a responsibility to work to this

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end in evaluating the needs of any given community at any

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given time.

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Section 3 was written not in reference to an

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archaic school fund but instead as the committee expressed

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in a unanimous vote at one time to insure that funds

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designated for educational purposes should not be appro-

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priated for other purposes. This was a unanimous vote at

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that time and since then the committee on tax and finance

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have come up with those provisions relating to all funds

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in the State which would imply that such has been covered.

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Moving to Section 4, it is rather curious, at

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best, that the minority rejects the concept mentioned of

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a State Board of Education in the Constitution. Twenty-