CHAPTER 176

FREE SCHOOLS

AN ACT to Amend an Act entitled "An Act to Provide for the Establishment and Maintenance of a General and Efficient System of Free Public Schools," approved March 31, 1921.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Section That the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a gener2i1 and efficient system of Free Public Schools," approved March 31, 1921, being Chapter 160 of Volume 32 of the Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:

By striking out all of Section 51 thereof and by inserting in lieu thereof a new Section 51 as follows:

"Section 51. The said State Board of Education, Special School District Boards of Education and the Boards of Trustees of School Districts are authorized and empowered to carry out such plans when so approved by the State Board of Education and are empowered to purchase grounds and buildings, rent grounds and buildings, improve and repair buildings and construct new buildings, and do such other things as are necessary to the carrying out of said building plan. In the remodeling of old buildings or the construction of new buildings they may employ an architect approved by the State Board of Education to assist in the preparation of plans and specifications.

Such Boards may receive donations of playgrounds, school grounds and school sites, or of buildings already built suitably located and adapted to school purposes, but in no case shall any site be built upon, or any buildings accepted Title in name until a good and sufficient title has been obtained for the same in the name of the Board; provided that in the case of School Districts such title shall be taken in the name of the State Board of Education.

When any property, real or personal, of any Special School District is no longer needed for school purposes by said District, the Board of Education thereof is hereby authorized and empowered to sell such property, and to convey to the purchaser thereof a good and sufficient title thereto. The proceeds of such sale or sales shall be used by the said Board of Education for school purposes in the said Special School District.

When any property, real or personal, of any School District, other than a Special School District, or any property, real or personal, which is under the control of the State Board of Education or the title to which has in any way passed to or is in the name of the State Board of Education and is no longer needed for school purposes the State Board of Education is hereby authorized and empowered to sell such property and to convey to the purchaser thereof a good and sufficient title thereto. The proceeds of such sale or sales shall be used by the State Board of Education for school purposes in the District in which the property is situated and disbursements thereof shall be upon the order of the Board of School Trustees of the said School District."

Section 2. That the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a general and efficient system of free public schools," approved March 31, 1921, being Chapter 160 of Volume 32 of the Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:

By adding at the end of Section 65 thereof a new article styled

"ARTICLE XIV

TEACHER TRAINING

Section 66. In order to assist in supplying the serious need of trained elementary teachers in this State, the State Board of Education is authorized and empowered to create scholarships at the University of Delaware, not exceeding sixty in number, whereby a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars per school year for each scholarship shall be contributed to the expenses at the said University of any person approved by the State Board of Education who shall receive training at the said University to teach in the elementary schools of this State, and who shall give the said State Board of Education satisfactory assurances that he or she will teach in the elementary schools of this State for the period of at least two years immediately following his or her graduation. The State Board of Education shall make such rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Section, and to secure the faithful fulfillment of all promises or undertakings of persons receiving scholarships hereunder."

Approved April 5, A. D. 1923.