As to the schools which constitute the Public Education System, the Secretary shall be directly responsible for:
(a) School facility planning.
(b) The opening and the temporary or permanent closedown of school facilities.
(c) The structuring of the System in grades and levels or by any other design.
(d) The fiscal planning for the System and the budget allotment for each school.
(e) The development of reliable scholastic aptitude tests that will allow an assessment of the performance of the Education System as a group and each school in particular.
(f) The fiscal auditing and the examination of school staff procedures.
(g) The evaluation of the performance of school directors.
(h) The evaluation, auditing or scrutiny of any other activity that the schools may develop within the scope of autonomy [that] §§ 143a—146f of this title recognize.
History —July 15, 1999, No. 149, § 5.03.