Delaware Code
Chapter 17. STATE APPROPRIATIONS
§ 1717. Employment of personnel.

(a) Local school boards of education and the various school building commissions may employ personnel who are paid wholly or in part from federal and/or school construction funds provided that such personnel shall be classified and paid in accordance with the salary schedules set forth in Chapter 13 of this title. In the event any of the aforementioned boards or commissions shall have a uniform local district salary supplement to the salary schedules set forth in said Chapter 13, such board or commission may also pay employees covered by this subsection an additional amount from federal and/or school construction funds not in excess of that set forth in the uniform local district salary supplement.
(b) Personnel employed pursuant to this section shall be covered by Chapter 14 of this title, if such personnel qualify for coverage under § 1403(a). In determining length of service for the purposes of Chapter 14 of this title, employees who heretofore have been excluded from coverage under Chapter 14 of this title shall receive credit for all service to the State and to the current employing school district.
(c) None of the various school boards or school building commissions shall enter into contracts with, or pay, individuals to provide consultant educational or related services from state, federal or school construction funds when such individual is a salaried employee of the public school system of this State. This subsection shall not be construed to prohibit the employment of professional personnel to teach special classes such as night school and a third shift at a vocational school and in-service courses in the same or other districts outside of regularly scheduled school hours.

Structure Delaware Code

Delaware Code

Title 14 - Education

Chapter 17. STATE APPROPRIATIONS

§ 1701. Amount to be appropriated by General Assembly.

§ 1702. Divisions of school appropriations.

§ 1703. Unit of pupils [Effective until July 1, 2023].

§ 1703. Unit of pupils [Effective July 1, 2023].

§ 1703A. Extended Learning Opportunities Subcommittee.

§ 1704. Number of units in a school district; method of calculation; actual unit count; optional unit count.

§ 1705. Determination of amount of appropriation.

§ 1705A. Maximum student-instructor ratio requirements.

§ 1705B. Required reporting regarding maximum student-instructor ratio.

§ 1706. Determination of amount of Division II appropriation.

§ 1707. Division III equalization funding.

§ 1708. Form of appropriation.

§ 1709. Use of appropriation for purpose other than that designated.

§ 1710. Certification of number of units by Secretary of Education.

§ 1711. Salaries in excess of state supported uniform salary schedules.

§ 1712. Transfer of appropriation of closed and consolidated district.

§ 1713. State School Fund income and General Fund.

§ 1714. Acquisition of school sites, Advanced Planning and Real Property Acquisition Fund; purchase; sale; repayment.

§ 1715. Unit of pupils for kindergartens.

§ 1716. Unit for academic excellence.

§ 1716A. Related services unit and funding.

§ 1716B-1716D. Gifted or talented unit and funding; disruptive pupil referral unit and funding; Education Refinement Program unit and funding.

§ 1716E. Mental health services unit and funding.

§ 1716F. Mental health services unit and funding for middle school.

§ 1716G. Substitute teachers.

§ 1717. Employment of personnel.

§ 1718. Matching federal funds.

§ 1719. Adjustment of appropriations.

§ 1720. Adult education.

§ 1721. Autistic unit and funding.

§ 1722. Accounting for textbooks, subject matter materials and other school property entrusted to individual students.

§ 1723. Comprehensive school discipline improvement programs.

§ 1725. Tracking of school district use of unit funds.

§ 1726. Opportunity Fund [Effective until July 1, 2024].

§ 1726. Opportunity Fund [Effective July 1, 2024].