45-37A-40
Section 45-37A-40 Board of education. (a) Beginning with the municipal elections in 2002, a
school board for the City of Bessemer, Alabama, is established and shall be elected in 2002,
and every four years thereafter. The board shall be called the Bessemer City Board of Education.
The board shall be composed of seven members, with one member being elected from each of the
districts from which the Bessemer City Council are elected, by a majority of the qualified
electors voting who reside in the respective districts. (b) Candidates for each place on the
board of education shall be at least 21 years of age, residents of the district which they
seek to represent on the board for at least 90 consecutive days immediately preceding the
deadline date for qualifying as a candidate, and shall not have a record of conviction for
a felony or any other crime involving moral turpitude. Each candidate shall pay a qualifying
fee in an amount prescribed by the Bessemer City Council. (c)(1) The...
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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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16-1-34
Section 16-1-34 Donation by two-year college president of surplus property to local public
school system. A two-year college president under the jurisdiction of the Department of Postsecondary
Education and the State Board of Education and the State Board of Medical Examiners may donate
surplus personal property of the institution to a local city board of education or to a local
county board of education for use by public high schools, public middle schools, and public
elementary schools in the respective local public school system. Accurate records of the transactions
shall be kept by the two-year institution and the State Board of Medical Examiners and the
recipient local public school system. (Act 2000-689, p. 1400, §1.)...
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16-26-1
Section 16-26-1 Administration of high school affairs. In the establishment and operation of
high schools, matters relating to the minimum standards prescribed by the State Board of Education
on the courses of study, organization, instruction, qualifications of principals and teachers,
building and equipment and of sanitary conditions shall be administered through the professional
assistants in the Department of Education, directed by the State Superintendent of Education.
Manuals of instruction, bulletins setting out programs of study, rules and regulations and
other matters relating to secondary education shall be printed from time to time by the State
Board of Education. The requirements for accreditment of high schools and the list of approved
institutions shall be submitted to and approved and printed by the State Board of Education
on the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Education and supplied in sufficient
quantities to meet the needs of high school principals,...
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16-26-3
Section 16-26-3 Elementary and high school may be placed under same principal. Subject to the
rules and regulations of the State Board of Education, where economy of organization and administration
seems to justify it, county boards of education may place the elementary, junior and senior
high schools of any district or districts under one and the same principal, or may use any
other plan of organization approved by the county board of education. (School Code 1927, §464;
Code 1940, T. 52, §436.)...
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16-3-20
Section 16-3-20 Supervision of educational work of special institutions. The State Board of
Education shall have general supervision of the educational work of all charitable, penal,
reformatory and child-caring institutions, maintained in whole or in part by the state, through
its executive officer, who shall be a member of the governing board or boards which have charge
of such. (School Code 1927, §51; Code 1940, T. 52, §25.)...
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45-22-224
Section 45-22-224 Creation of board; composition; powers; funding. (a) In Cullman County, the
Battleground School Historical Board is established to own, operate, manage, and preserve
the former Battleground School property in the unincorporated community of Battleground, including
any ball fields and other historical structures, owned by the Cullman County Board of Education.
The Battleground School Historical Board shall be composed of five members appointed by the
Cullman County Legislative Delegation for terms of four years. Members of the board shall
continue to serve until a successor is appointed. Members of the board are immune from civil
liability for actions taken in the conduct of their duties to the extent allowed under Section
36-1-12. (b)(1) The Battleground School Historical Board may accept title to the former Battleground
School property owned by the Cullman County Board of Education and may hold the property for
the benefit and use of the public, particularly the...
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45-37-242
Section 45-37-242 Taxation for public school purposes. (a) The Legislature finds and confirms
that pursuant to paragraph (f) of Amendment 373 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the
County Board of Education of Jefferson County, the board, and the Jefferson County Commission
of Jefferson County, the county commission, after separate public hearings thereon, have each
proposed that the county commission increase above the limit otherwise provided in the constitution,
the rate at which the ad valorem tax, hereinafter described, is levied on the taxable property
in the Jefferson County School District, consisting of all areas of Jefferson County outside
of the municipalities of Birmingham, Bessemer, Fairfield, Mountain Brook, Homewood, Vestavia
Hills, Tarrant City, and Midfield, the school district. (b) The Legislature hereby approves
the aforesaid proposal and authorizes the county commission to increase the rate at which
the ad valorem tax levied pursuant to the election held in the...
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16-1-40
Section 16-1-40 Education Trust Fund proration relief. (a) During fiscal year 2009 and any
fiscal year in which proration is declared by the Governor in an amount equal to or greater
than three percent, local boards of education, with the recommendation of the local superintendent,
may transfer Education Trust Fund line item appropriations including the Public School Fund,
except Public School Fund monies dedicated to a specific capital outlay project or debt service
and except for Alabama Public School and College Authority funds which are allocated for a
specific capital outlay project, between and among appropriated line item categories. No state
funds shall be transferred from funds appropriated for salaries, fringe benefits, or student
materials allocations. (b) Prior to any implementation of the flexibility provisions of this
section, the local board of education shall produce a plan indicating the source and amount
to be transferred from each line item and show that the transfer...
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16-13A-4
Section 16-13A-4 Appointment; removal of chief school financial officer; qualifications. (a)
In consultation with the local superintendent of education, the local board of education shall
appoint a chief school financial officer who shall be an employee of the board. (b)(1) If
the position of chief school financial officer is vacant for 30 days and the local board is
not actively seeking to fill the position, the State Superintendent of Education may designate
a chief school financial officer for a period of not more than one year, which may be extended
from year to year, unless and until the local board appoints a person who meets the established
qualifications. In addition, the State Superintendent of Education shall designate a chief
school financial officer if the position has been vacant for more than 60 days. (2) A person
designated as chief school financial officer by the State Superintendent of Education may
not be unilaterally removed from that position by the local board of...
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