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we have protection. This is what the Constitution is

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for, to guarantee certain things, protect the things

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that we ought to have, so far as the establishment of

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the government, the school government, if you please.

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This group I have worked with for fifteen years feels

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very strongly that this is a must. We want to preserve

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the independence of the public schools and the freedom

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from the kind of interference we've been talking about.

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THE CHAIRLADY: Thank you very much. Mr.

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Sartorius, did you want to make a comment?

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MR. WILLIAM S. SARTORIUS: I'd like to comment

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on a question Mr. Eney raised and that is about the

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local boards of education. I think it is rather advis-

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able to consider that, including local boards of educatio

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also. We operate in Baltimore County under a County

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Charter, of course, a charter form of government locally,

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but that Charter spells out the Board of Education as a

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department and speaks in terms of it as being a depart-

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ment, and we are running into problems all the time as

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to whether or not the Charter takes precedence over the

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State school laws, Article 77. In come cases, it is