(a) The purpose of this subchapter is to continue the statewide process of reorganization of school districts begun under the School District Reorganization Act of 1968; to preserve the historic concept of semiautonomous locally controlled school districts throughout the State; to provide a procedure for the effective and orderly reorganization of certain existing school districts in Delaware; and to provide a framework of a governance system for such reorganized districts.
(b) It is the further purpose and intent of the General Assembly to establish policy, procedures, standards and criteria under which the State Board of Education is authorized to determine and establish an appropriate reorganized school district or school districts and to implement the reorganization thereof. Any plan or rules and regulations duly adopted in accordance with this subchapter and § 1028(k) of this title by the State Board of Education for its implementation of such a plan shall be binding upon the parties involved in accordance with § 122(a) of this title.
14 Del. C. 1953,
§
1001;
56 Del. Laws, c. 292,
§
6;
61 Del. Laws, c. 210,
§
1;
62 Del. Laws, c. 351,
§
1;
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
5
cases, 1974–1977 · leading case:
Evans v. Buchanan, 393 F. Supp. 428 (D. Del. 1975).
Evans v. Buchanan, 393 F. Supp. 428 (D. Del. 1975).
· cites it 6× “The majority of the Court postponed consideration (a) of plaintiffs' challenge to the constitutionality of the Educational Advancement Act of 1968, 14 Del.C. § 1001 et seq. and (b) of plaintiffs' claim that state enforcement and authorization of private racial discrimination,…”
Evans v. Buchanan, 379 F. Supp. 1218 (D. Del. 1974).
· cites it 4× “Second, they contend that the Educational Advancement Act of 1968, 14 Del.C. § 1001 et seq., which provides for school district consolidation and boundary changes in Delaware, [*] unconstitutionally confines Wilmington *1220 students to attendance at schools within the city…”
Evans v. Buchanan, 416 F. Supp. 328 (D. Del. 1976).
· cites it 2× “In prior opinions, this Court ruled that the segregation of the Wilmington schools was never erased; 2 and that this segregation resulted from a combination of factors, including demographic and housing patterns initiated and supported by state action; and the redrawing of…”
Morris v. Bd. of Educ. of Laurel Sch. Dist., 401 F. Supp. 188 (D. Del. 1975).
“See 14 Del. C.Ann. § 1001 et seq. Thus, the Laurel School Board, like all other Delaware boards, is undeniably an instrumentality established by the state to assist the state in the performance of an important governmental function.”
Evans v. Buchanan, 555 F.2d 373 (3rd Cir. 1977).
“1 A three-judge court was convened in 1971 in response to the plaintiffs’ concern that Delaware’s Educational Advancement Act of 1968, which gave the State Board of Education the power to reorganize existing school districts, 14 Del.C. § 1001, but excluded the Wilmington school…”
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