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evidence. When I talk with my fellow secretaries, through
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the year, about what are you doing legislativewise , what
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advancements are you making, this, that, ond the other,
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too many of them for good comfort say, Well, wo fought
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for and won the battle to sustain our appropriations. I
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hope we don't get to this point in Maryland. We have
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never had to fight that battle here in ray twenty-two years.
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I think it is because of this provision. There are
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probably certain people who would like, the teachers'
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groups and the rest to be put in the motion to have to
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fight to sustain their appropriations. I am not making
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any kind of veiled implications to the Committee here,
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but there are people I would think would like to see our
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energies absorbed in that connection. I would rather
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advance the school system, not fight for the status quo.
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MR. SACHS: I don't disagree with that general
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proposition. It seems to me much of what you have said,
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the quotes from Dr. Flexner and Bachman, et cetera, go to
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the question of the legislative body, General Council and
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City Council, being able to cut the City budget, and as
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we agreed at the outset, the disposition of this Committee ,
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