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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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16-6B-8
Section 16-6B-8 Participation in Foundation Program. (a) In order for a local board of education
to participate in the state Foundation Program certain conditions shall be met. The teacher
salary schedule of the local board of education shall be at least 100 percent of the amount
specified within the State Minimum Salary Schedule delineated by cell for the type of degree
and years of experience of each teacher. All funds allocated to a local board of education
for teacher salaries shall be spent for salaries in the instructional program. (b) In order
for a local board of education to participate in the state Vocational/Technical Education
Program certain conditions shall be met. The teacher salary schedule of the local board of
education shall be at least 100 percent of the amount specified within the State Minimum Salary
Schedule adjusted for extended contracts delineated by cell for the type of degree and years
of experience of each teacher. All funds allocated to a local board of...
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29-1-26
Section 29-1-26 Legislative double dipping prohibited. (a) This section shall be known and
may be cited as the Legislative Double Dipping Prohibition Act. (b) Any other provision of
law to the contrary notwithstanding, and except as provided in subsection (c), a member of
the Legislature, during his or her term of office, may not be an employee of any other branch
of state government, any department, agency, board, or commission of the state, or any public
educational institution including, but not limited to, a local board of education, a two-year
institution of higher education, or a four-year institution of higher education. For purposes
of this section, employee means any of the following: (1) An employee as defined in Section
36-27-1, or a teacher as defined in Section 16-25-1. An employee as defined in this subsection
shall not include any person receiving pension benefits from the Retirement Systems of Alabama.
(2) A person who is personally providing services under a personal...
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16-36-64
Section 16-36-64 Statewide textbook contracts. (a) No contract shall be made pursuant to this
article for the purchase of textbooks rejected by the State Board of Education. The only contracts
entered into by the State Board of Education pursuant to this article shall be for textbooks
considered by the State Textbook Committee and adopted by the State Board of Education as
provided for in this article. (b) In addition to all other laws which forbid the use of textbooks
in the public schools of the state by authors who are members of the Communist Party or members
of communist front organizations, all contracts with publishers for textbooks made pursuant
to this article shall stipulate that the author or authors of such book or books is not a
member of the Communist Party or known advocate of communism or Marxist socialism and is not
a member of a communist front organization. (c) The maximum price at which the State Board
of Education shall contract for local boards of education to pay...
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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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16-6D-8
Section 16-6D-8 Tax credits; Failing Schools Income Tax Credit Account. (a) To provide educational
flexibility and state accountability for students in failing schools: (1) For tax years beginning
on and after January 1, 2013, an Alabama income tax credit is made available to the parent
of a student enrolled in or assigned to attend a failing school to help offset the cost of
transferring the student to a nonfailing public school or nonpublic school of the parent's
choice. The income tax credit shall be an amount equal to 80 percent of the average annual
state cost of attendance for a public K-12 student during the applicable tax year or the actual
cost of attending a nonfailing public school or nonpublic school, whichever is less. The actual
cost of attending a nonfailing public school or nonpublic school shall be calculated by adding
together any tuition amounts or mandatory fees charged by the school to the student as a condition
of enrolling or of maintaining enrollment in the...
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40-9-14.1
Section 40-9-14.1 Certificates of exemption to governmental entities, contractors, etc., for
certain tax exempt projects. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term governmental entity
means the State of Alabama and its political subdivisions, including a county, a municipality,
an industrial or economic development board or authority, and any public water or sewer authority,
district, system, or board that otherwise is sales and use tax exempt. A governmental entity
shall also include an educational institution of any of the foregoing Alabama political subdivisions
including a public college or university, a county or city board of education, and the State
Board of Education. (b)(1) The Department of Revenue shall issue a certificate of exemption
to the governmental entity for each tax exempt project. (2) The Department of Revenue shall
grant a certificate of exemption from state and local sales and use taxes to any contractor
licensed by the State Licensing Board for General...
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45-13-101
Section 45-13-101 Qualifications. (a) In Clarke County, notwithstanding any provision of law
to the contrary, no person shall be eligible for appointment by the county board of education
or for any political party nomination, or for election to the office of county superintendent
of education unless such person: (1) Holds a certificate in School Administration or Supervision.
(2) Is of good character and reputation, has not been previously convicted of a crime involving
moral turpitude, has not been previously found guilty of a charge which would justify cancellation,
pursuant to Alabama law, of a tenured contract, and, if not active as a teacher, principal,
supervisor, or in some other capacity as a school administrator, in a public school system
at the time of qualifying for county superintendent, has left his or her last public school
system position voluntarily and while in good standing in that system. He or she must also
have had experience of not less than five years, within the...
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45-45-102
Section 45-45-102 Enrollment in county school system; transfer of funds from municipal school
system. In Madison County, the parent or guardian of a public school student who resides in
an area that has been annexed to a municipality since January 1, 1960, and who is currently
being denied public school transportation service by that municipality's school system and
who resides five miles or more from the nearest municipal school of the appropriate grade
level for the student, shall have the option of enrolling his or her student so affected in
the county school system. Provided, however, the option shall be exercised no later than 30
days prior to the first day of school for the school year. Once the option is exercised, the
affected student shall be barred from reenrollment in the municipal school system from which
the student transferred for the remainder of that school year. When the option is so exercised,
a per student share of locally generated municipal school revenues for each...
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16-1-20.6
Section 16-1-20.6 Released time for student participation in religious instruction. (a) This
section shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Released Time Credit Act. (b) The Legislature
finds and declares all of the following: (1) That the United States Supreme Court, in its
decision in Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952), upheld the constitutionality of released
time programs for religious instruction for public school students during the school day.
(2) That the United States Constitution and state law allows local school districts to offer
religious released time education for the benefit of public school students. (3) That the
purpose of this section is to incorporate a constitutionally acceptable method of allowing
school districts to offer released time classes and, in grades where credit is earned, to
award students elective credit for classes taken during the school day in released time programs.
(c) As used in this section, the term released time means a period of...
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