A. 1. C. PROVISIONS OF CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARTICLE X. EDUCATION. Section 1. The General Assembly shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of a general and efficient system of free public schools, and may require by law every child, not physically or mentally disabled shall attend the public school, unless educated by other means. Section 2. In addition to the income of the investments of the Public School Fund, the General Assembly shall make provision for the annual payment of not less than one hundred thousand dollars for the benefit of the free public schools which, with the income of the investments of the Public School Fund, shall be equitably apportioned among the school districts of the State as the General Assembly shall provide; and the money so apportioned shall be used exclusively for the payment of the teachers' salaries and for furnishing free text books; provided, however, that in such apportionments, no distinction shall be made on account of race or color, and separate schools for white and colored children shall be maintained. All other expenses connected with the maintenance of free public schools, and all expenses connected with the erection or repair of free public school buildings shall be defrayed in such manner as shall be provided by law. Section 3. No. portion of any fund now existing, or which may hereafter be appropriated, or raised by tax, for educational purposes, shall be appropriated to, or used by, or in aid of any sectarian, church or denominational school; provided, that all real and personal property used for school purposes, where the tuition is free, shall be exempt from taxation and assessment for public purposes. Section 4. No part of the principal or income of the Public School Fund, now or hereafter existing, shall be used for any other purpose than the support of free public schools. 242661 CHAPTER 67, VOLUME 21. AN ACT CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GENERAL Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Education Section 1. The general supervision and control of the free public schools of this State, including those for colored children, shall be vested in a State Board of Education; State Board of which shall be composed of the Governor, the Secretary of State, the President of Delaware College, the State Auditor, and the senior member of each County School Commission by this Act created, as members by virtue and dur- Term ing the continuance of their office. Board The Governor shall be the President and the Auditor officers of shall be the Secretary of the said State Board of Education. The said State Board shall hold meetings quarterly, during Meetings the last week in each of the months of September, December, March and June in each year, in the office of the Auditor at Dover, and may hold special meetings at the call of the President (or Secertary). The first meeting of the First Meeting said State Board herein created, shall be on Saturday, the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Four members shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a less Quorum number may adjourn from time to time until a quorum is secured. vacancy in ernor to be Board In any case where, under the Constitution, the powers Person filling and duties of the office of Governor devolve upon some per- office of Gov son other than he who was elected to fill said office, such member of persons shall take the place of the Governor upon said State Board so long as he shall continue to act as Governor under the said Constitution. Before entering upon the oath duties of their office, the members shall be severally sworn or affirmed to well and faithfully execute and discharge the duties of their said office. Any member may administer such oath or affirmation. |