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Board of Education. We are now constitutionalizing it.

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I ask that" we go one step farther in this

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constitutionalization and implement this board with the

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State superintendent. In 1961 the General Assembly

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enacted what has been considered a model State Code, and

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many of the provisions have remained unchanged after

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approximately a half a century.

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THE CHAIRMAN: You have one-half minute, Dele-

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gate Blair.

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DELEGATE BLAIR: I read the educators also

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oppose appointment of superintendents by the governor.

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Abolition of such method of selection for Maryland was

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recommended in 1921, in a report to the Federal Education

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Survey Commission by Flexner and Bankman, wherein it is

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stated "that the superintendent who is the State's education-

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al executive should be chosen not by the governor but by

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a board as far removed from politican influences as pos-

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sible for a term either indefinite or long enough to

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remove danger of political complications ."

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This recommendation has been followed to today.

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I ask this be constitutionalized .