16-2-9
Section 16-2-9 Donation of surplus, non-expired food to charitable organizations for redistribution to needy students. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION. Any food bank or charitable organization as defined in the federal Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. (2) DEPARTMENT. The State Department of Education. (3) FOOD. Any raw, cooked, processed, or prepared edible substance, ice, beverage, or ingredient used or intended for use in whole or in part for human consumption. (4) SCHOOL. A public elementary school, middle school, or high school. (b) A local board of education may allow any school under its jurisdiction to donate surplus, non-expired food to a charitable organization through an official of the charitable organization who is directly affiliated with the school, including a teacher, counselor, support staff, or any employee of the school, or a parent of a student enrolled at the school. The...
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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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16-13A-7
Section 16-13A-7 Audits. (a)(1) The yearly business and financial transactions of a local board of education shall be audited as early as possible after the end of the fiscal year. (2) The audits of the books and accounts of local boards of education shall be conducted by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts shall audit, review, and otherwise investigate the receipts and disbursements of funds of each local board in the same manner as audits are performed on other agencies and departments of the State of Alabama. (3) Any local board of education governing a city school system, other than those city systems required by law to be audited by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts on June 1, 2006, may employ a certified public accounting firm or firms or use the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts to perform its yearly financial audit of its books and accounts including a legal compliance audit and program compliance...
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16-44A-36
Section 16-44A-36 Functions and oversight. The trust shall continue to be designated as the entity to coordinate the voluntary Alabama student mock election in cooperation with the office of Secretary of State, the State Superintendent of Education, and local educational entities, and to coordinate a voluntary program involving legislators visiting school classrooms, both of which shall be subject to oversight of the Joint Legislative Committee on Civic Education pursuant to Article 10 of Chapter 2 of Title 29. (Act 2001-970, 2001 3rd Sp. Sess., p. 868, §3.)...
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16-46A-1
Section 16-46A-1 Adoption of policy governing virtual school program. (a)(1) Before the 2016-2017 school year, each local board of education shall adopt a policy providing, at a minimum, a virtual education option for eligible students in grades nine to 12, inclusive, beginning with that school year. (2) Any virtual school operating in this state that provides educational services to public school students shall comply with this chapter. (b) The policy adopted by the local board of education pursuant to this chapter shall govern the virtual school program offered by the local board of education. The policy shall offer students in grades nine to 12, inclusive, an online pathway for earning a high school diploma and, at a minimum, shall include all of the following: (1) The scope and delivery of virtual options. (2) Student eligibility criteria for initial and continuing participation in the virtual program. (3) Specific requirements for monitoring performance and testing protocol...
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16-6D-7
Section 16-6D-7 Equal opportunity for applicants. The State Board of Education and the State Department of Education shall ensure equal opportunity for all school systems that apply for programmatic flexibility or budgetary flexibility, or both, as delineated in this chapter, and in no way shall one local school system be favored over another local school system based upon its size, location, student population, or any other possible discriminatory measure. (Act 2013-64, p. 112, §7.)...
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16-13-140
Section 16-13-140 Established for county and city school systems; form of annual budget required; public hearings required. (a) There shall be a budget system for the public schools of each county and city for the purpose of promoting economy and efficiency in the finances of the public schools. (b) The State Department of Education shall prepare proposed annual budget forms for each local board of education and shall make the forms available to each local superintendent of education by August 1 of the first year of each legislative quadrennium and by July 1 of each subsequent year of each legislative quadrennium for use with public hearings. The forms shall be clear, uniform, and concise in order to promote understanding by the general public of the budget process. (c) Each local board of education shall hold at least two open public hearings pertaining to its proposed annual budget. Copies of the proposed budget shall be provided to the public at each hearing on forms provided by the...
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16-13A-6
Section 16-13A-6 Required reports. (a) The State Board of Education shall by regulation provide for various financial and other information which local superintendents of education shall have prepared for the local boards of education, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) A monthly financial statement showing the financial status of the local board of education accounts with itemized categories specified by the State Board of Education. (2) A monthly report showing all receipts and the sources thereof. (3) A monthly report showing all expenditures with itemized categories specified by the State Board of Education. (4) An annual projected budget. (5) Monthly and/or quarterly reports showing expenditures relative to such projected budget. (6) A yearly report of the fixed assets inventory of the local board of education with itemized categories specified by the State Board of Education. (7) Financial and other information necessary to participate in national statistical...
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16-22-14
Section 16-22-14 Personnel records of education employees. (a) Definitions. When used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) EMPLOYEE. Any person employed by a school board. (2) EXECUTIVE OFFICER. The superintendent of any public county or city school system; the President of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the president of any two-year school or college under the auspices of the State Board of Education; the Superintendent of the Department of Youth Services School District; the Executive Director of the Alabama School of Fine Arts; and the Executive Director of the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science. (3) LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCY PERSONNEL SYSTEM (LEAPS). The data base established and maintained by the Alabama Department of Education for record keeping of all data related to certificated and non-certificated personnel at each board of education. (4) PERSONNEL AND ENROLLMENT REPORTING SYSTEM (PERS). The data base established and...
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16-28-2.2
Section 16-28-2.2 Establishment of program by local boards to inform parents of educational responsibilities. (a) Local boards of education, pursuant to guidelines established by the State Board of Education, shall establish educational programs to inform parents of school children of their education-related responsibilities to their children. The programs shall include, but shall not be limited to, coverage of each of the following topics: (1) The criminal liability and criminal sanctions parents may be subject to under Section 16-28-12, for failing to compel their child to properly conduct himself or herself as a pupil, or for failing to ensure that their child attends school or enrolls in school. (2) The necessity for a parent to monitor and supervise the school work and educational activities of the child. (3) An explanation of the responsibilities of teachers and the school system to a child, and an enumeration of those matters that are strictly the responsibility of the parent....
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