the Director of the Department of Budget and Procurement and one
member from the enforcement force of the Department of State
Police appointed by the Board of Public Works. It is the duty of
the Board to prescribe necessary rules and regulations for the opera-
tion of the retirement system and to consider applications for dis-
ability pensions or retirement (Code 1951, Art. 88B, sees. 31-37).

Appropriations 1953 1954
Special Fund $81,374 $85,381
Staff: 1.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

President: Wendell D. Allen, 1956

Richard W. Case, 1952; Ruth McCormick Tankersley, 1954;
Helen Curtis Walker, 1955; J. Jerome Frampton, Jr., 1957;
Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1958; William A. Gunter,
1960.
Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer of the Board and

State Superintendent of Schools
John J. Seidel, Assistant State Superintendent for Vocational

Education
David W. Zimmerman, Assistant State Superintendent in

Division of Finance and Research
James E. Spitznas, Director, Division of Instruction
Merle S. Bateman, Director, Division of Certification and

Accreditation

Helen M. Clark, Director, Division of Library Extension
Robert C. Thompson, Director, Division of Vocational
Rehabilitation

2 W. Redwood Street, Baltimore 1 Telephone: Lexington 9-3071

Although a centralized administration of the public schools of
Maryland was attempted in 1865, it was not until 1870 that the State
Board of Education was established. The Board, composed of seven
members appointed by the Governor for terms of seven years, is
responsible for the public school system, for the formulation of policy
governing education within the State, and for the passage of by-laws
and administrative regulations necessary for the governing of the
school system (Code 1951, Art. 77, sees. 2, 5, 14-19, 160).

The State Superintendent of Schools is appointed by the State
Board of Education for a term of four years. He is responsible for
the direction of the State Department of Education, the execution of
policy governing the school system, and the enforcement of the
administrative regulations adopted by the Board (Code 1951, Art. 77,
sees. 33, 34). The State Department of Education is composed of the
State Superintendent of Schools and the professional staff employed
by the Board to assist him in the supervision and direction of the
Maryland public schools. "The department has six divisions, each with
its specific duties to perform.

Division of Instruction

The Division of Instruction provides leadership in planning and
supervising educational programs for young people and adults in the
public schools of the State. It plans programs and assists with the
education of the handicapped also. Specific aids provided for teachers