448                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 159

at the same time designate which such children are physically
unable to properly care for themselves without assistance and
to properly or advantageously be educated in the regular public
schools with normal children and shall recommend which such
children ought to have clinical, therapeutic, or hospital treat-
ment. When such classifications and recommendations shall
have been made, the State Board of Health shall report the
same to the respective school boards from which the names of
such handicapped children were received, and also to the State
Board of Education.

235B. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Educa-
tion, to set up standards, rules and regulations for the exam-
ination, classification and education of such handicapped chil-
dren in the counties of the State who can be benefited under the
provisions of this Act; such standards, rules and regulations
to include the prescribing of qualifications of teachers, the
curriculum and equipment, and the supervision of the program
which may be inaugurated by the County Board of Education
for each such handicapped child. The expenses incurred by
any of the counties of the State in establishing special classes
for mentally handicapped children in accordance with stand-
ards, rules and regulations of the State Board of Education
shall be paid in the same manner as the ordinary expenses for
the support of schools in the several counties of the State; pro-
vided that in calculating the cost of the minimum program
as a basis for determining the amount of the equalization fund
which a county is entitled to receive, each such special class
shall be considered as a separate unit. And wherever the
City of Baltimore or any of the counties of the State shall
inaugurate a special program of instruction under standards,
rules and regulations of the State Board of Education to meet
the needs of any child whose handicap is physical only and
whose needs are not met by ordinary school facilities, the city
or counties so providing the same shall be entitled to receive,
toward the cost of teachers, special equipment, nursing, thera-
peutic treatment and transportation, an amount not to exceed
two hundred dollars ($200. 00) per child, to be paid by the
State of Maryland out of a special fund to be appropriated for
such purpose in the State Public School Budget. The State Su-
perintendent of Schools shall ascertain the respective amounts
the City of Baltimore and the counties shall be so entitled to
receive from the State under this section, and when such