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JOINT RESOLUTIONS

possibility of making Bloodsworth Island a wildlife management
area refuge; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the Department of Natural Resources also is
requested to complete a wildlife survey of Bloodsworth Island;
and be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be forwarded by the
Department of Legislative Reference to the Honorable Torrey C.
Brown, M.D., Secretary of Natural Resources, Tawes State Office
Building, 580 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401; the Honorable
Adele Wilzack, R.N., M.S., Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene, 201 West Preston Street, Baltimore, MD 21201; The
Honorable John F. Lehman, Jr., Secretary of the Navy, The

Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20350; and William Eichbaum,

Assistant Secretary for Environmental Programs, 201 West Preston
Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.

Signed May 13, 1986.

No. 26

(House Joint Resolution No. 49)

A House Joint Resolution concerning

Racial and other Forms of Discrimination in the
Public Schools of this State

FOR the purpose of establishing a task force to develop
procedures to combat promote methods to eliminate racial and
other forms of discrimination and violence in the public
schools of this State; and requiring the Task Force to make
certain interim findings and recommendations and to issue a
final report by a certain date.

WHEREAS, There has been a recent and continuing increase in
the number of disparaging remarks directed at minority and
handicapped students in the public schools of this State; and

WHEREAS, This type of conduct is symptomatic of the
existence in our public schools of attitudes directly
contradictory to the fundamental principle that all people are
created equal and therefore should be treated equally; and

WHEREAS, The public schools of this State have failed to
develop an internal mechanism to deal had difficulty dealing with
incidences of racial and other forms of hatred; and

WHEREAS, The State Board of Education, on July 29, 1981,
passed a resolution stating in part that "public education is
provided best in an atmosphere where differences are understood