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that not critically at all. That in my opinion -- that

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was suggested years ago in Prince Georges County, to

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eliminate the Board of Education and make it part of the

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County. I told the Superintendent, 1 said, I know the

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result. You will put the school system on the level of

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the sewer system.

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I think it would be highly dangerous to put

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in the hands of any one individual, elected or otherwise,

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the education of the youth of this State. Let me give

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you an instance. I think one of the dangerous practices

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in the State of Maryland is legislating through the bud-

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get, and yet we owe to that practice one of the greatest

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things that ever happened. For instance, the Governor

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can put into the budget an appropriation and the legis-

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lature passes it, and it's an easy way of getting it

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passed. If he wants it, it becomes — you have the

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appropriation. We did that for the junior colleges.

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That is the way we started. Governor O'Connor put

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$10,000 in there. Governor Tawes a few years ago wanted

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to do something for the teachers of the State. So, he

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put in $500,000, one man. I approved of it. I thought