16-6G-7
Section 16-6G-7 Alabama Committee on Grade Level Reading. (a) The State Superintendent
of Education shall establish the Alabama Committee on Grade Level Reading. The committee shall
consist of three members appointed from each State Board of Education district. The Governor,
the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President Pro
Tempore of the Senate shall each appoint one member from each district. The appointing authorities
shall coordinate their appointments so that diversity of gender, race, and geographical areas
is reflective of the makeup of this state. (b) Each member of the committee shall be a parent
or legal guardian of a state K-12 public school student, a practicing teacher, a retired teacher,
or employed in the field of education. (c) On or before June 30, 2020, the committee shall
revise the 2011 Alabama Action Plan for Literacy Birth Through Grade 12 in consultation with
the Campaign for Grade Level Reading group, which shall be...
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21-1-12
Section 21-1-12 Lists of deaf and blind children within counties; enforcement of attendance
of children eligible for benefits of school. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent
of education in each county of Alabama to furnish annually to the attendance officer of his
county and the president of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind a list of the deaf and
blind children of his county with the name, sex, age, and address of each, together with the
name and address of the parent or guardian of each child, such information to be secured from
the school census enumeration books of the county or from any other reliable source, and the
attendance officer shall visit the home of each child not later than five days after the opening
date of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, as published by the president of this institution
by giving written notice to each county superintendent of education and each city superintendent
of education in Alabama. If it is found that any child...
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16-22A-32
Section 16-22A-32 Collection of fingerprints; submission of materials. (a) Each local
employing board and other public educational entity required to obtain criminal history background
information checks of current public certified employees and current public noncertified employees
pursuant to this article shall cooperate with the State Department of Education in obtaining
two complete acceptable sets of fingerprints and written consent from each current employee
who has or seeks to have unsupervised access to a child or children. (b)(1) Each local employing
board and other public educational entity shall, upon request, submit the following items
to the State Department of Education for each current public certified employee and current
public noncertified employee: a. Two functional acceptable fingerprint cards, bearing the
fingerprints of the individual, properly executed by an individual properly trained in fingerprinting
techniques. b. Written consent authorizing the release of...
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16-28-6
Section 16-28-6 Children exempt from attending public school. (a) The following children,
when issued certificates of exemption by the county superintendent of education, where they
reside in territory under the control and supervision of the county board of education, or
the city superintendent of schools, where they reside in territory under the control and supervision
of a city board of education, shall not be required to attend school, or to be instructed
by a private tutor: (1) Children whose physical or mental condition is such as to prevent
or render inadvisable attendance at school or application to study. Before issuing such certificate
of exemption, the superintendent shall require a certificate from the county health officer
in counties which have a health unit, and from a regularly licensed, practicing physician
in counties which do not have a health unit, that such a child is physically or mentally incapacitated
for school work. (2) Children who have completed the course...
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16-4-15
Section 16-4-15 Census for schools. (a) The State Superintendent of Education shall
prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval and adoption by the State Board
of Education rules and regulations for the taking of a decennial school census of all children
in the state between six and 16 years of age, also the forms and blanks to be employed in
taking such census and in compiling the reports thereon. The next school census shall be taken
in 2008 and every 10 years thereafter, and the State Superintendent of Education may cause
the whole or any part of the school census of any county or of any city to be retaken at any
time, if, in the judgment of the State Superintendent of Education, the whole or any part
of the census has not been properly taken. (b) Should a constitutional amendment removing
the requirements of the school census be ratified by the people, the provisions of this section
thereby shall be automatically repealed without further action required of the...
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16-6C-2
Section 16-6C-2 School grading system. (a) In addition to any other labels or designations
assigned to public schools and public school districts pursuant to a federal, state, school,
district, or other assessment or accountability system, the State Superintendent of Education,
consistent with the provisions of this chapter, shall develop a school grading system reflective
of school and district performance. The grading system shall utilize the traditional A, B,
C, D, or F framework. (1) Schools receiving a grade of "A" are making excellent
progress. (2) Schools receiving a grade of "B" are making above average progress.
(3) Schools receiving a grade of "C" are making satisfactory progress. (4) Schools
receiving a grade of "D" are making less than satisfactory progress. (5) Schools
receiving a grade of "F" are failing to make adequate progress. (b) In developing
this school grading system, the State Superintendent of Education shall seek input from parents,
teachers, school...
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16-1-16.1
Section 16-1-16.1 Alabama Council on Family and Children. (a) The Legislature finds
that there is at present a need in Alabama to coordinate, at the state and local level, the
efforts of existing providers of services supporting early childhood development and family
involvement in education. (b) There is hereby established the Alabama Council on Family and
Children to be composed of the Governor, who shall be chairperson; the State Superintendent
of Education; the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources; the State Health Officer;
the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation; the Chairman of
the Children's Trust Fund; and the Director of the Department of Youth Services, or their
designated representatives, and one additional member from each congressional district to
be appointed by the Governor. Said council shall exist for the purpose of coordinating existing
services, at the state and local level, supporting early childhood development and...
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16-11-10
Section 16-11-10 Quadrennial census for city. The city board of education, subject to
the provisions of this title, shall cause to be taken under the direction of the city superintendent
of schools a quadrennial school census of the school children in the city between the ages
of six and 19 years. The school census shall be taken in July of 1946, and every four years
thereafter, and the superintendent of schools, upon the direction at any time of the State
Superintendent of Education, shall cause the whole or any part of the school census in the
city to be retaken. The city superintendent of schools shall employ, with the approval of
the city board of education, a sufficient number of enumerators to take the census during
the month of July, or at such other time as the State Superintendent of Education shall cause
the whole or any part of the school census in said city to be retaken. The city board of education,
upon the recommendation of the city superintendent of schools, shall fix...
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38-13-3
Section 38-13-3 Criminal history background information check required for certain individuals;
exemptions. (a) On November 1, 2000, every employer, child care facility, adult care facility,
the Department of Human Resources, and child placing agency shall request the Alabama State
Law Enforcement Agency to conduct a criminal history background information check for the
following: (1) An employment applicant, employee or volunteer of an employer, child care facility,
adult care facility, or child placing agency. (2) A current foster parent for a child or adult
or adult household member of a foster family or applicant and an adult household member of
a foster family seeking approval to operate as a foster parent or foster family home for a
child placing agency or the Department of Human Resources. Unless otherwise provided in this
chapter, no criminal history background information check shall be conducted on a current
foster parent or household member of a foster family if a Federal...
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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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