Delaware § 1702 - Divisions of school appropriations.

§ 1702. Divisions of school appropriations.

(a) Appropriations for the support, maintenance and operation of the free public schools of the State shall be in 3 divisions: Division I shall include appropriations designated for the purpose of paying the employees of the various school districts of the State in accordance with the state-supported salary schedules contained in Chapter 13 of this title; Division II shall include the appropriations for all other school costs and energy, except those for debt service and the transportation of pupils; Division III shall include appropriations for educational advancement.

(b) The Department of Education shall in its annual budget request recommend an aggregate amount to be appropriated to the State’s school districts for the purpose of educational advancement on a unit basis. The Department’s annual budget request shall include funds adequate to comply with its obligation under § 1704(2) of this title.

(c) Appropriations pursuant to Division I shall be used to employ personnel authorized by Chapter 13 of this title. School districts shall not use such funding to employ administrators in addition to those funded by the State pursuant to Chapter 13 of this title.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, appropriations pursuant to Division II may be used for any otherwise legal purposes.

(e) The Department of Education, Office of Management and Budget and Controller General’s Office are authorized to simplify the complexity of state share accounting by consolidating school district appropriations in the State’s financial management and accounting system. Such consolidation may include state funding appropriated and allocated to school districts under Divisions I, II and III, Academic Excellence, Reading Cadre, Reading Resource Teachers, and Exceptional Student Unit-Vocational. Appropriations authorized to be consolidated herein shall not alter the school funding formulas, salary schedules, and/or provision of expenditure stipulated in this title and in the Annual Appropriations Act.

47 Del. Laws, c. 364, §  1;  14 Del. C. 1953, §  1702;  56 Del. Laws, c. 292, §  20;  71 Del. Laws, c. 180, §  95;  71 Del. Laws, c. 482, §  3;  73 Del. Laws, c. 321, §§  4, 5;  75 Del. Laws, c. 88, §  21(7);  75 Del. Laws, c. 89, §  367;  76 Del. Laws, c. 280, §§  337, 356;  77 Del. Laws, c. 84, §  404;  77 Del. Laws, c. 197, §  2;  78 Del. Laws, c. 7, §  1;  79 Del. Laws, c. 201, §  1;  83 Del. Laws, c. 325, § 383;