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with respect to education.

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I am not quite clear just what you advocate

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in this regard. Let me ask you specifically as to cer-

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tain areas. It has been suggested that the Governor's

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control over State agencies should be greater than it is

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now and that many independent boards should be made

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advisory only and the head of the department under that

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board be made accountable directly to the Governor. If

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that were applied to the Department of Education and

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the State Board of Education would become advisory and

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the Superintendent of Education would be responsible

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to the Governor rather than to the board, would you

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think that desirable or undesirable?

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DR. PULLEN: I think that is the most danger-

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ous thing you can possibly do to public education in the

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country. Alaska has done it, Hawaii did it. Mr.

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Byrd did that in Virginia. As soon as he became Governor

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the first thing he did was to make the Superintendent

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appointed by the Governor. You simply make a sycophant

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out of a professional. You simply put your whole pro-

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fessional career in the hands of a politician. I say