904                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 405

first obtained the assent of the State Board of Education and approval
of said Board of the conditions of entrance, scholarship, and resi-
dence upon which said certificate, diploma or degree is issued.

12. Certificate of approval for private schools.

(a)    Required.—Every private school or educational institution,
however designated, which offers a program of college, professional,
preparatory, high school, junior high school, elementary, kinder-
garten, or nursery school work, or any combination thereof, or
which offers a program of trade or technical education, or both, or
which gives pre-employment or supplementary training, or both, in
the fields of trade or industry, and any and every private school or
educational institution, except those operated by bona fide church
organizations, must secure a certificate of approval issued by the
State Superintendent of Schools, before it may begin or continue
to operate or function in this State. BONA FIDE CHURCH OR-
GANIZATIONS SHALL INCLUDE THOSE SCHOOLS KNOWN
AS AMISH AND MENNONITE CHURCH PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
IN CHARLES, GARRETT, AND ST. MARY'S COUNTIES. Pro-
vided, that nothing in this section shall be construed as having appli-
cation to any school or college that is now operating under a charter
granted by the legislature of Maryland.

(b)    Issuance and revocation.—The State Superintendent of
Schools shall issue a certificate of approval to any applicant operat-
ing or proposing to operate such a private school or educational
institution whose conditions of entrance, scholarship, educational
qualifications, standards, and facilities are adequate and appropri-
ate for the purposes, program, training, and courses to be taught
or given therein. Any such certificate may be revoked at any time
for cause by the State Board of Education but only in the manner
herein described. Before any such certificate may be revoked the
State Superintendent of Schools shall first give the school involved
a written notice of his intention to require such school to show cause
before the State Board of Education why such certificate of approval
should not be revoked. Such notice of intention shall clearly specify
the grounds for his proposed action and shall give such school thirty
days in which to correct the conditions complained of therein. If
at the end of said thirty-day period, or such extensions thereof as
may be granted by the State Superintendent of Schools, the State
Superintendent of Schools shall still be dissatisfied he shall give
such school a written order requiring such school to show cause,
if any, at a hearing before the State Board of Education to be held at
a specific time therein designated, not less than thirty days after
the date of such order, why such school's certificate of approval
should not be revoked. Upon such hearing or upon the failure of
any represe