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for a statewide system of public schools....

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Plnase note here the financing is removed to

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another section.

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Section 2. The General Assembly shall provide

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for and maintain a system of higher education....

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Section 3. The University of Maryland shall

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be the State university and shall be given autonomy in

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the control and direction of all expenditures provided for

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it.

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Section A. The State school system shall be

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supported and maintained without discrimination.

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In this, of course, the words, race, creed,

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color, would appear there, I presume.

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Those of us who appeared before the Committee

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on Miscellaneous Provisions recommended that the State

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Board of Education and the State Super intendent of Schools

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be given constitutional status as is now being done in

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many other states.

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I might say parenthetically in line with what

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the University of Maryland is asking for in way of autonomy

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We are not asking for autonomy, but we did ask they be