16-28B-8
Section 16-28B-8 Suicide prevention programs, training, and policies; advisory committee; liability.
(a) To the extent that the Legislature shall appropriate funds, or to the extent that any
local board may provide funds from other sources, each school system shall implement the following
standards and policies for programs in an effort to prevent student suicide: (1) Foster individual,
family, and group counseling services related to suicide prevention. (2) Make referral, crisis
intervention, and other related information available for students, parents, and school personnel.
(3) Foster training for school personnel who are responsible for counseling and supervising
students. (4) Increase student awareness of the relationship between drug and alcohol use
and suicide. (5) Educate students in recognizing signs of suicidal tendencies and other facts
and warning signs of suicide. (6) Inform students of available community suicide prevention
services. (7) Promote cooperative efforts...
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16-1-20.5
Section 16-1-20.5 Protection of student religious liberties. (a) This section shall be known
and may be cited as the "Alabama Student Religious Liberties Act of 2015." (b) A
public local board of education may not discriminate against students or parents on the basis
of a religious viewpoint or religious expression. A local board of education shall treat a
student's voluntary expression of a religious viewpoint, if any, on an otherwise permissible
subject in the same manner the local board of education treats a student's voluntary expression
of a secular or other viewpoint on an otherwise permissible subject and may not discriminate
against the student based on a religious viewpoint expressed by the student on an otherwise
permissible subject. (c) Students may express their beliefs about religion in homework, artwork,
and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content
of their submissions. Homework and classroom assignments shall be judged by...
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16-6F-7
Section 16-6F-7 Applicant proposals; conversion to public charter school; terms of charters;
contracts. (a) Request for proposals. (1) To solicit, encourage, and guide the development
of quality public charter school applications, every local school board, in its role as public
charter school authorizer, shall issue and broadly publicize a request for proposals for public
charter school applications by July 17, 2015, and by November 1 in each subsequent year. The
content and dissemination of the request for proposals shall be consistent with the purposes
and requirements of this act. (2) Public charter school applicants may submit a proposal for
a particular public charter school to no more than one local school board at a time. (3) The
department shall annually establish and disseminate a statewide timeline for charter approval
or denial decisions, which shall apply to all authorizers in the state. (4) Each local school
board's request for proposals shall present the board's strategic...
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16-28B-6
Section 16-28B-6 Duties of schools. Each school shall do all of the following: (1) Develop
and implement evidence-based practices to promote a school environment that is free of harassment,
intimidation, violence, and threats of violence. (2) Develop and implement evidence-based
practices to prevent harassment, intimidation, violence, and threats of violence based, as
a minimum, on the criteria established by this chapter and local board policy, and to intervene
when such incidents occur. (3) Incorporate into civility, citizenship, and character education
curricula awareness of and sensitivity to the prohibitions of this chapter and local board
policy against harassment, intimidation, violence, and threats of violence. (4) Report statistics
to the local board of actual violence, submitted reports of threats of violence, and harassment.
The local board shall provide the statistics of the school system and each school in the school
system to the department for posting on the department...
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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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16-28-3.1
Section 16-28-3.1 Guidelines and procedures for withdrawal from school; dropout prevention
program. (a) A child over the age of 17 may withdraw from public school prior to graduation
if both of the following circumstances exist: (1) Written consent is granted by the child's
parent or legal guardian. (2) An exit interview is conducted where the student and the student's
parent or legal guardian have been advised that withdrawal from school shall likely reduce
the student's future earning potential and increase the student's likelihood of being unemployed
in the future. During the exit interview, the student who is withdrawing from school shall
be given information that has been prepared and supplied by the State Department of Education
regarding the detrimental impacts and effects of early withdrawal from school along with any
available training and employment opportunity programs, provided such information is available.
(b) The State Department of Education shall work with local public...
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16-6F-9
Section 16-6F-9 Legal status and powers of public charter schools; employees. (a) Legal status
of a public charter school. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, to the
extent that any provision of this chapter is inconsistent with any other state or local law,
rule, or regulation, the provisions of this chapter shall govern and be controlling. (2) A
public charter school shall be subject to all federal laws and authorities enumerated herein
or arranged by charter contract with the school's authorizer, where such contracting is consistent
with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. (3) Except as provided in this chapter, a public
charter school shall not be subject to the state's education statutes or any state or local
rule, regulation, policy, or procedure relating to non-charter public schools within an applicable
local school system regardless of whether such rule, regulation, policy, or procedure is established
by the local school board, the State Board of...
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16-28-12
Section 16-28-12 Person in loco parentis responsible for child's school attendance and behavior;
noncompliance; local boards to promulgate written behavior policy, contents, annual distribution,
receipt to be documented; school officials required to report noncompliance; failure to report
suspected violation; district attorneys vigorously to enforce provisions. (a) Each parent,
guardian, or other person having control or custody of any child required to attend school
or receive regular instruction by a private tutor who fails to have the child enrolled in
school or who fails to send the child to school, or have him or her instructed by a private
tutor during the time the child is required to attend a public school, private school, church
school, denominational school, or parochial school, or be instructed by a private tutor, or
fails to require the child to regularly attend the school or tutor, or fails to compel the
child to properly conduct himself or herself as a pupil in any public...
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16-1-23
Section 16-1-23 Hazing prohibited; penalty. (a) Hazing is defined as follows: (1) Any willful
action taken or situation created, whether on or off any school, college, university, or other
educational premises, which recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health
of any student, or (2) Any willful act on or off any school, college, university, or other
educational premises by any person alone or acting with others in striking, beating, bruising,
or maiming; or seriously offering, threatening, or attempting to strike, beat, bruise, or
maim, or to do or seriously offer, threaten, or attempt to do physical violence to any student
of any such educational institution or any assault upon any such students made for the purpose
of committing any of the acts, or producing any of the results to such student as defined
in this section. (3) The term hazing as defined in this section does not include customary
athletic events or similar contests or competitions, and is limited...
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16-6F-6
Section 16-6F-6 Authorization of establishment; Alabama Public Charter School Commission; registration
requirements; powers and duties of authorizers. (a) Eligible authorizing entities. (1) A public
charter school shall not be established in this state unless its establishment is authorized
by this section. No governmental entity or other entity, other than an entity expressly granted
chartering authority as set forth in this section, may assume any authorizing function or
duty in any form. The following entities shall be authorizers of public charter schools: a.
A local school board, for chartering of schools within the boundaries of the school system
under its jurisdiction, pursuant to state law. b. The Alabama Public Charter School Commission,
pursuant to this section. (2) A local school board that registers as an authorizer may approve
or deny an application to form a public charter school within the boundaries of the local
school system overseen by the local school board. (3) All...
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