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flow from its abolition, namely, the school system in
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politics? Do you have any evidence to support that state-
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ment?
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MR. RAVER: Yes. I thought I quoted liberally
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from the Report of the Commission which shows how bad
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things were prior to 1916, and let me say that the lews —
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and I didn't put this in here, but Mr. Sachs, the pro-
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vision in Section 52, Subsection (11), was written in in
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1916. It was an amendment to the Constitution at that
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time.
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MR. SACHS: I understand that all right.
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MR. RAVER: It must have been thought to be
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important. Since then, I know, and remember that I work
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with all 50 school systems through my fellow secretaries,
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I know of no school system in the country, the entire
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country, that is as free of political interference as is
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the school system of Maryland, and this came about since
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1916, so don't you think it is perfectly logical to con-
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clude that this and other changes as well were responsible
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for this sudden change, the sudden freedom from political
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domination and control? Let me give you one other line of
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