1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
16
19
20
21

DELEGATE MAURER: I think it is very essential,
because the minority report, for which this amendment
is a substitute, tried to handle it by saying that the
public schools could be a department, but the problem there
is that if it became a principal department, it would
have to be headed by- a single executive.
That is just the eventuality which I would
like to avoid, and it seems to me that it is essential to
protect our universities, our colleges and the state
public school system, and while it is difficult to do it in
a few words, I too, would prefer to be able to spell it
out, if this applies only to the eventuality they are set
up as departments.
It seems to me this takes care of the eventuality
without mandating that they become principal departments.
I see no other way of handling it.
Might I also say that I think this does allow the
Convention a three-way choice, because the existing wordinc
of the blue sheets, as we have worked with them, provides
an exception for schools too because it says "unless
otherwise provided by law", but then I point out there