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Constitution for county boards as well?

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DR. ZIMMERMAN: No, I think that should be a

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constitutional provision. I think they have that.

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DR. BARD: May I comment? It is getting to

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be common practice that county charters be clear on this

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question just as city charters. So, the question of

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local legislation would be embodied within the charters

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of local units. It's in Baltimore City's Charter, for

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example .

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DR. ZIMMERMAN: Maybe Mr. Eney has a point

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that has escaped me. I think we've got to be careful

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that local boards of education don't just become another

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department of local government and under control of local

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county managers or whoever they may be. I think we have

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to protect here again the local school boards, to be sure

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that they can operate under the rules and regulations of

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the statutes of the State and the rules and bylaws and

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the policies of the State Board of Education. Maybe Mr.

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. Sartorius who was formerly in the State Department of

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Education and is now the Superintendent of Baltimore

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County, perhaps he may he able to answer that.