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16-6A-2
Section 16-6A-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the
respective meanings ascribed to them by this section: (1) A.C.H.E. The Alabama Commission
on Higher Education. (2) BOARD or BOARD OF EDUCATION. The State Board of Education. (3) COMMISSION.
The Governor's Educational Reform Commission created by this chapter. (4) CRITICAL NEEDS AREAS.
Those curriculum and teaching areas where there is an urgent need for action. These areas
include mathematics, science, computer education and other areas to be identified from time
to time by the State Board of Education. (5) IN-SERVICE EDUCATION. The training of regularly
certified education professionals who hold positions in the public schools of the state. (6)
LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES. County and city boards of education and the school systems over
which these boards of education have authority. (7) PLAN FOR EXCELLENCE. A Plan for Excellence;
Alabama's Public Schools, a report to the Alabama State Board of...
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16-35-1
Section 16-35-1 Composition; appointment, qualifications and terms of members. The State Board
of Education shall appoint a courses of study committee as set forth below for the purposes
and functions as hereinafter provided. The State Courses of Study Committee shall consist
of 28 members to be selected as follows: (1) One elementary teacher (grades K through six)
and one secondary teacher (grades seven through 12) from each of the seven congressional districts
who are teaching in the course of study areas to be revised during their terms of office;
(2) Four members from the state at-large actively engaged in a supervisory or administrative
capacity in the field of education and who are knowledgeable or who have had previous teaching
experience in the course of study areas to be revised during their term of office; (3) Three
members who are employees of state institutions of higher learning and who are specialists
in the course of study areas to be revised during their terms of...
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16-36-60
Section 16-36-60 State Textbook Committee. (a) The State Textbook Committee is created. The
committee shall consider the merit of textbooks offered for use in the public elementary and
high schools of the state and make recommendations for approval or rejection, or both, to
the State Board of Education as hereinafter provided. In making recommendations to the State
Board of Education, the State Textbook Committee shall also consider any recommendations made
by the State Courses of Study Committee or by the State Superintendent of Education. (b) The
State Textbook Committee shall be composed of 23 members. Four of the members shall be secondary
school classroom teachers and four elementary school classroom teachers. One of these eight
members shall be appointed from each of the seven United States Congressional Districts, as
such districts are constituted on July 1, 1998, and one shall be appointed statewide. Four
members shall be appointed from the state at large, and these four...
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16-60-194
Section 16-60-194 Management and control; powers and duties of State Board of Education; schools
to be suitable for veteran training programs; leaves of absence for teachers. (a) The authority
to manage and control the trade schools is vested in the State Board of Education. (b) The
State Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Education,
shall: Make rules and regulations for the government of the trade schools; prescribe the courses
of study to be offered and the conditions for granting certificates and diplomas; appoint
the president of each trade school and, upon the president's recommendations, appoint the
members of the faculty and fix the tenure and salary of each; direct and supervise the use
of legislative appropriations for the use of the trade schools; accept gifts, donations, devises
and bequests of money and real and personal property for the purposes of this chapter; disseminate
information concerning and promote interest in the trade...
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16-1-41.1
Section 16-1-41.1 School board governance improvement. (a) This section shall be known and
may be cited as the School Board Governance Improvement Act of 2012. (b) The Legislature finds
and declares all of the following: (1) That the purpose of this section is to enhance the
effectiveness of public education governance in Alabama through the establishment of training
requirements, boardsmanship standards, and accountability measures that are designed to promote
informed deliberations and decisions, to revise the qualifications for serving as a member
of a local board of education, to provide for a code of conduct for each member of a local
board of education in order to better ensure that any decision or action of a local board
of education is based on the interests of students or the system, and to foster the development
and implementation of organizational practices that are designed to promote broad support
of the public schools. (2) A local board of education is the legally...
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16-16-8
Section 16-16-8 Authority empowered to sell and issue bonds for construction, etc., of facilities
for public educational purposes; procedure for letting contracts. (a) The authority is hereby
authorized from time to time to sell and issue its bonds, not exceeding $116,000,000.00 in
aggregate principal amount, for the purpose of providing funds for construction, reconstruction,
alteration and improvement of buildings and other facilities for public educational purposes
in the state, including the procurement of sites and equipment therefor, and for payment of
obligations incurred for any such purpose. The cost of construction, reconstruction, alteration
and improvement of any such buildings or other facilities shall be deemed to include fees
for services rendered by architects and building inspectors in connection therewith. (b) All
contracts involving the expenditure of any funds derived by a county or city board of education
under this chapter shall be let on competitive bids in the...
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16-23-3
Section 16-23-3 Provisional certificates. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the
State of Alabama shall modify its policies relative to the certification of teachers to permit
an expanded alternative certification program for prospective teachers for grades six through
12. In addition to certificates issued pursuant to this chapter to individuals graduating
from approved teacher education programs, the State Board of Education shall adopt policies,
procedures, rules, regulations, or standards authorizing an alternative certificate to be
issued by the State Superintendent of Education to an individual, regardless of whether the
individual is a graduate of an approved teacher education program, where the applicant shall:
(1) Hold an earned bachelor's or higher degree from a regionally accredited institution of
higher education. (2) Submit the required application forms and fees and, when required, a
separate fingerprint fee, along with fingerprints and release forms. (3) Be...
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16-6E-6
Section 16-6E-6 Construction of chapter. This chapter shall be construed to do all of the following:
(1) Provide the State Superintendent of Education or the chief administrative officer with
broad discretion and complete authority to make, direct, implement, and enforce decisions,
actions, and measures which, in his or her judgment, are necessary and appropriate to the
attainment of the objectives of educational intervention and to accord the fullest measure
of deference to decisions and actions made by such officials in furtherance of intervention
goals and objectives. (2) Eliminate unnecessary delay in the implementation of measures designed
to attain intervention goals and objectives. (3) Protect vested and constitutionally based
employment rights through appropriate procedural safeguards without impairing attainment of
the goals and purposes of educational intervention or of this chapter. (4) Be cumulative,
supplemental, and complementary to other legislation that confers...
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45-42-163
Section 45-42-163 Distribution of payments. Upon receipt by Limestone County of funds pursuant
to Chapter 28, Title 40, as amended, Limestone County, within a reasonable time thereafter,
shall distribute the funds so received as follows: (1) Effective through September 30, 2006,
all funds shall be distributed as prescribed by Act 86-550, 1986 Regular Session (Acts 1986,
p. 1124). (2) Effective October 1, 2007, and thereafter, the funds shall be distributed as
follows: a. Before the percentage formula of distribution contained in paragraph b. is applied,
the sum of two hundred ninety-three thousand dollars ($293,000) shall be distributed in the
following manner: 1. Forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to Auburn University to be used exclusively
for the benefit of the Limestone County Cooperative Extension Service. 2. Seven thousand five
hundred dollars ($7,500) to the Limestone County Soil and Water Conservation District. 3.
Thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($37,500) to the...
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16-27-4
Section 16-27-4 Licensing of drivers. Regulations made pursuant to an order of the board of
education requiring and providing for special training and licensing of drivers of vehicles
used to transport pupils to and from school shall require an applicant for a school bus driver's
license to be the holder of a currently valid regular driver's license and to complete a minimum
of 12 clock-hours of approved instruction in school bus driving and to pass satisfactorily
a written examination and also a driving performance test. The written examination shall be
designed by the State Superintendent of Education with the cooperation of the state Director
of Public Safety and may be given to the applicant either by an employee of the State Department
of Education or a state trooper or other representative of the State Department of Public
Safety as the State Superintendent of Education and the Director of Public Safety agree; but
the driving performance test shall be given by a state trooper or...
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