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except appropriations, that's correct.

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MR. BROOKS: Would this provision in the

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Constitution really afford protection from the shifting

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of funds generally appropriated for education?

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DR. ZIMMERMAN: If the present Constitution

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doesn't protect the funds appropriated for the State

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Education Department, then it ought to be.

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MR. BROOKS: There has never been any test,

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as far as you know, to see whether that really applies?

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DR. ZIMMERMAN: No. It has been referred to

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from time to time.

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MR. BROOKS: If that were done, it would also

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be necessary to have it in the budgetary provisions,

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rather than as it is now, in Article 8.

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DR. ZIMMERMAN: I'll let Mr. Eney answer that.

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He's the lawyer.

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MR. BROOKS: I wondered if you had any thought

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about it?

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DR. ZIMMERMAN: We want to be sure it stands

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out and gives us the protection we are guaranteed. I

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think this is important because the money needs to be