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2025 Delaware Code
Title 14 - Education
Chapter 13. SALARIES AND WORKING CONDITIONS OF SCHOOL EMPLOYEES
§ 1329. Employment contracts.

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14 DE Code § 1329 (2025)
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§ 1329. Employment contracts.

(a) The Department of Education and the boards of education of the reorganized school districts may sign individual employment contracts involving state funds only with those professional employees whose base salary is that provided for in §§  1305, 1310 and 1336 of this title. The salary amounts in the contracts so authorized shall be for 1 fiscal year, provided that contracts for administrative personnel covered in subsection (b) of this section shall not be so limited.

(b) Nothing in this title shall be construed as prohibiting the board and any assistant principal, principal, supervisor, administrative assistant, director, assistant superintendent or superintendent from entering into an employment contract for a period of up to 5 years.

(c) Salary amounts in individual contracts provided for in subsection (a) or (b) of this section shall not be contracted for, agreed upon or effective prior to enactment of the Budget Appropriation Bill.

14 Del. C. 1953, § 1329;  57 Del. Laws, c. 263, § 2;  58 Del. Laws, c. 346;  58 Del. Laws, c. 552;  64 Del. Laws, c. 20, §§ 1, 2;  71 Del. Laws, c. 180, § 79;  82 Del. Laws, c. 242, § 359; 
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