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appointing the President of the University of Maryland
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and the president of all the State colleges and every-
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thing else. It would be unthinkable.
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DR. SENSENBAUGH: I think you would have
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chaos. I know what happens when you have elected
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superintendents, I can quote you examples. I don't
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want them in the record, but it is real serious, what
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happens to the schools and the same thing is just one
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step removed from that, when the Governor appoints the
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heads of the school system.
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MR. ENEY: But there are some states that
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have very recently gone to elected superintendents.
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Do you have any notions as to whether that has proved
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to be good or bad?
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DR. SENSENBAUGH: I say it's bad. It may
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have been an improvement over something that happened,
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for some reason or other . I know now Oregon had the
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first election of a superintendent in a long time, but
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this is because of a State Supreme Court decision in
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regard to interpretation of their original Constitution
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saying what was being done all along was illegal. I
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