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me tell you that I have formed my opinions on education

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after twenty- five years of grass roots digging for im-

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provement in the schools of our State.

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I have served as the State President of the

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Homemakers, and then as State President of the Maryland

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PTA. In these voluntary jobs, I have made my 'first trips

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to Annapolis, urging the legislature to support school

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appropriations; and we were able to get Governor Tawes

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as a. staunch ally. When a vacancy occurred on the State

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Board of Education, he asked me to serve.

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During the same time I have been the Program

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Service Chairman of the National Congress of Parents and

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Teachers, the largest volunteer organization in the world,

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and 6 Director at large of the National Association of

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State Boards of Education. I tell you this only because

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I have been out digging to try to find those new explosive

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ideas, and I visited schools all over the United States

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and in several countries in Europe and had a wonderful

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opportunity to compare Maryland's educatiop system with

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that of other States.

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But I would be the last one in the world to