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16-13A-3
Section 16-13A-3 Financial training of local superintendents of education. (a) The State Superintendent
of Education shall develop programs for the instruction and training of local superintendents
of education in subjects including finance, instruction, and legal requirements. The instruction
and training shall be designed to instill a minimum level of competence in local superintendents
of education. Tests of competency shall be administered by the State Superintendent of Education
as required by Section 16-1-38. (b) Persons employed before June 1, 2006, as local superintendents
by a local board of education or elected by the people shall complete the mandated training
and pass the mandated competency test within three years of June 1, 2006, unless they shall
sooner become employed by another local board of education in which case they shall immediately
complete the mandated training and competency test. All local superintendents of education
shall complete the mandated training and...
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16-13A-2
Section 16-13A-2 Financial oversight by State Superintendent of Education; appointment and
duties of Chief Education Financial Officer; internal audits of schools and school systems.
(a) The State Superintendent of Education shall oversee the financial integrity of the various
local boards of education and shall appoint a Chief Education Financial Officer who shall
be an employee of the State Department of Education. The Chief Education Financial Officer
shall be a certified public accountant or have equivalent experience as determined by the
State Superintendent of Education, shall have experience in educational or governmental finance,
shall complete the instructional program provided in Section 16-13A-3 within the later of
six months of its introduction or six months of appointment, and shall have passed the mandated
competency test provided in Section 16-13A-3 within the later of six months of its adoption
or six months of appointment. The Chief Education Financial Officer shall...
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16-6B-3
Section 16-6B-3 Assistance programs. (a) Student strategy. The superintendent of the local
board of education along with the staff of each school shall develop an assistance program
at each school for at-risk students performing below the standards set by the State Board
of Education. The standards shall include the results of the required assessment program adopted
by the State Board of Education with emphasis on students who are found to be at one or more
grade levels below the prescribed norm. The local board of education shall budget at least
one hundred dollars ($100) per student so identified to be expended on tutorial assistance
programs including, but not limited to, after-school, Saturday school, or summer school, or
any combination of these programs. These funds may be budgeted from state or federal funds.
However, federal funds already budgeted for at-risk students may not be counted toward the
minimum one hundred dollars ($100) requirement set aside to be expended for...
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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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16-44B-1
Section 16-44B-1 Compact. ARTICLE I PURPOSE It is the purpose of this compact to remove barriers
to education success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and
deployment of their parents by: A. Facilitating the timely enrollment of children of military
families and ensuring that they are not placed at a disadvantage due to difficulty in the
transfer of education records from the previous school district(s) or variations in entrance/age
requirements. B. Facilitating the student placement process through which children of military
families are not disadvantaged by variations in attendance requirements, scheduling, sequencing,
grading, course content or assessment. C. Facilitating the qualification and eligibility for
enrollment, educational programs, and participation in extracurricular academic, athletic,
and social activities. D. Facilitating the on-time graduation of children of military families.
E. Providing for the promulgation and enforcement of...
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16-1-38
Section 16-1-38 Financial and education law training for newly elected superintendents of education.
(a)(1) Each person newly elected or appointed as a city or county superintendent of education
shall, prior to assuming office, attend and satisfactorily complete a training program on
school finances and education law. This requirement shall be applicable upon the development
and offering of the training program as provided in this section. (2) The State Superintendent
of Education, based upon reasonable cause, may allow a newly elected or appointed superintendent
to attend and satisfactorily complete the training program after assuming office. (3) Superintendents
serving on May 31, 2001, may attend such training program. (4) The Department of Education,
or its designee, shall provide the training program at no cost. (b)(1) The training program
shall be formulated by a committee comprised of the State Superintendent of Education and
each of the following: a. A representative of the...
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16-6B-5
Section 16-6B-5 School safety and discipline accountability. In addition to providing quality
instruction in classrooms and fiscal soundness, all local boards of education shall be accountable
for compliance with statutes and regulations regarding school safety and discipline. The State
Department of Education shall send to all local boards of education and all local superintendents
of education, on or before August 1 of each year, a manual containing all acts of the Legislature
and all regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education which pertain to school safety
and discipline. Within thirty (30) days of receipt of this manual, each local board of education
shall provide to the State Board of Education a report, in the form prescribed by the State
Department of Education, describing its compliance with these acts and regulations. If a local
board of education is determined by the State Board of Education to have failed to comply
in any material respect with these acts and...
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16-6G-5
Section 16-6G-5 Reading and intervention programs; individual reading improvement plan; summer
reading camps; Alabama Summer Achievement Program; retention of students; reporting requirements.
(a) To ensure that public school students are able to read at or above grade level by the
end of third grade, each local education agency shall offer a comprehensive core reading program
to all students based on the science of reading which develops foundational reading skills.
In addition, no school district may use any curriculum for public K-3 students that does not
have instructional time included. (b) Based on the results of the reading assessment in Section
16-6G-3, each K-3 student who exhibits a reading deficiency, or the characteristics of dyslexia,
shall be provided an appropriate reading intervention program to address his or her specific
deficiencies. Additionally, students shall be evaluated after every grading period and, if
a student is determined to have a reading deficiency, the...
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16-6B-2
Section 16-6B-2 Core curriculum. Every Alabama student shall be given instruction in grades
kindergarten through twelve to prepare him or her to enter the world of work and/or to complete
course work at the postsecondary level. In addition to a comprehensive core curriculum of
academics, each local board of education shall offer a program of vocational/technical education.
(a) The following words and phrases used in this section shall, in the absence of a clear
implication otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations: (1) REQUIRED COURSES.
Courses which are required to be taken by every student enrolled in public schools in the
State of Alabama. (2) ELECTIVE COURSES. Courses which are neither mandatory nor required to
be taken by any student enrolled in public schools in the State of Alabama. (b) The Legislature
finds that students must become more literate in the basic skills needed to earn a living
or to continue their education. The Legislature further finds that the...
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16-6G-3
Section 16-6G-3 Task force to make recommendations; membership; meetings; approved systems.
(a) The State Superintendent of Education shall convene a standing task force by December
1, 2019, to provide recommendations for comprehensive core reading and reading intervention
programs, a state continuum of teacher development for approved science of reading pursuant
to subsection (e) of Section 16-6G-6, and an annual list of vetted and approved assessments
that are valid and reliable reading screening, formative, and diagnostic assessment systems
for selection and use by local education agencies. The task force shall meet in regular session
at least twice a year. All appointing authorities shall coordinate their appointments so that
diversity of gender, race, and geographical areas is reflective of the makeup of this state.
The membership of the task force shall include all of the following appointees, each of whom
shall have at least three years of experience with scientifically based...
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