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We want to initiate new programs and budget people say
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to us, but you shouldn't initiate this program unless
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you can sell it to us and find out whether or not we
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agree with you. Now, that is usurping the policy-making
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power of the State Board and the State Superintendent,
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when the budget people take that kind of a position.
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In other words, they will not include it, not always,
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but frequently, and this varies with the people with
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whom you work, different budget people might -react
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differently. In other words, you have to seek their
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approval first before you include it.
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He didn't mention it, but I mention that
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because I've been on the receiving end of that kind of
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thing. Now, I am not suggesting that you can put a
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provision in the Constitution to keep the budget people
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from doing this. I just give you this for further infor-
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mation.
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I think, so far as public education is con-
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cerned, the Constitution ought to contain the following
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things that ought to provide for the establishment of a
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system of free public schools or free public education,
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