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High Schools. 126. State aid to two groups of high schools ; minimum requirements of each group; promotions. 126A. Teachers' training course in high schools. School Attendance. 153-153A. Regulations for attendance of children between eight and fourteen. 154-155. Penalties. 156-157. Attendance officers; duties, etc.; arrests. 158. Parental schools.. 159. Census in Baltimore City of chil- dren between six and eighteen

years ; withholding information ; false statements. 160. Reports from public and private schools of absent children. 161. Repealed. 162. Repealed. 163. Repealed. 164. Repealed. 165. Repealed. 166. Attendance officers to visit places where minors employed. 167. Penalties. Appropriation. 194. Repealed. Free Scholarships. 105. Blue Ridge College; scholarships.

Chapter 2. Formation of Boards.

7.

This section did not repeal the act of 1896, chapter 275, providing for the
erection, support and control of a high school at Annapolis. See notes to
section 11. School Commissioners v. Henkel, 117 Md. 99.

Chapter 3. State Board of Education.
11.

This section does not give the state board of education authority to deter-
mine purely legal questions; the courts have jurisdiction to pass on such
questions. Cases involving only the proper administration of the public
school system, distinguished. The act of 1904, chapter 584, did not repeal
the act of 1896, chapter 275, providing for the erection of a high school at
Annapolis and for its support and control. School Commissioners v. Hen-
kel, 117 Md. 100.

1912, ch. 169.

15A. The State Board of Education may, in its discretion, prepare
and publish annually a list of approved colleges and universities and

determine by by-laws the standards for said approval.

1914, ch. 592.

15B. The State Board of Education shall within one year after the
passage of this section prescribe minimum requirements for the issuing

of the various academic, collegiate, professional, or university degrees
which it is the custom for the educational institutions within the United
States to issue and said Board shall have authority to modify said
requirements from time to time as generally accepted standards may
change, provided no educational institution shall be required to comply
with standards fixed by the State Board of Education for the issuing

of degrees until one year after the publication of said standards by said
State Board. No public or private educational institution shall issue
any academic, collegiate, professional or university degree without first