AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRAINING FOR SCHOOL BOARDS.

Required school board training with online options

Delaware school district and charter school board members must complete training at the start of each term. Topics include special education due process hearings, school meeting and open-records laws, meeting practices, and the state conduct code. Meeting practices include rules of order. The Department of Education must set special education training standards, materials, and methods by regulation and identify training on the other topics. Each district and charter school must offer training, with online sessions at least twice yearly. The Department may outsource special education training; districts and charter schools may outsource delivery of the training they offer. Board presidents must tell newly elected or appointed members about the requirement. By January 15 each year, presidents must notify members who remain untrained as of January 1 following their election or appointment. Boards may combine training and notices with existing financial responsibility training, but must still meet that training’s requirements.