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MR. DONAHO: The Constitution says it's
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mandatory upon them. This is the difficulty.
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THE CHAIRMAN: I don't know. Suppose that
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provision wasn't in the Constitution?
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MR. DOHAHO: They would probably fare just as
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well.
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THE CHAIRMAN: That's what Jim Rennie says,
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that they would fare just as well because really the school
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provision in the Constitution has sort of been outgrown by
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the way the school system is financed today. Don't forget
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that it wasn't until, really until 1946 and '47 that you
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really began to get systematization in the school programs.
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I mean, you had equalization before that, truej but you
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never had these various formulae which were all brought in
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under the Sherbow Commission report or fused into one and
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have grown on from there.
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MR. DONAHO: Let's take other States, for example
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where Constitutions usually don't say much more than it's
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the State's responsibility to maintain an adequate system
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of free public schools, blah, blah, blah, and that's it.
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They fare quite well, I never heard of any of these school
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