16-36-63
Section 16-36-63 Bids for statewide textbook contracts. (a) Each year, before the organizational
meeting of the State Textbook Committee, the State Board of Education, through the State Superintendent
of Education, shall advertise in such manner and for such length of time and at such places
as considered advisable, that at a certain time and place determined by the State Board of
Education sealed bids or proposals shall be received from publishers for furnishing school
textbooks. Publishers and individuals may request an invitation to bid by writing the State
Superintendent of Education. The State Board of Education may include additional regulations
in the bid form that the State Board of Education deems best for the administration of this
article. Any regulations included in the bid forms and accepted by the publisher shall be
construed as a part of this article. The bids or proposals for each book shall be based upon
a contract period determined by the State Superintendent of...
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16-36-69
Section 16-36-69 Use of textbooks. (a) All textbooks furnished free of charge to pupils
shall be the property of the local board of education, as long as textbook funds are expended
as prescribed by law. (b) When distributed to pupils the textbooks shall be retained for normal
use only during the period they are engaged in a course of study for which the textbooks are
selected. At the completion of each course of study or otherwise at the instructions of the
principal or teacher in charge, the textbooks shall be returned as directed. A receipt shall
be required from each pupil, parent, or guardian upon issuance of any textbook, which receipt
shall be retained until the return of the textbook. (c) The parent, guardian, or other person
having custody of a child to whom textbooks are issued shall be held liable for any loss,
abuse, or damage in excess of that which would result from the normal use of the textbooks.
In computing the loss or damage of a textbook which has been in use for a...
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16-36-67
Section 16-36-67 Special textbooks. (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education
to negotiate with publishers of textbooks or authors of textbooks for the preparation and
publication, or either, of special textbooks for use in the public schools of the state. If
anyone undertakes the preparation of a special textbook for the purpose of making the textbook
more suitable and desirable for use in the public schools of the state, the State Superintendent
of Education shall submit the specially prepared textbook or specially arranged textbook to
the State Textbook Committee for its findings and ratings as to its desirability and suitability
for the purposes offered and these findings and ratings shall be certified to the State Board
of Education for its consideration. (b) If the State Board of Education is unable to obtain
what it considers a desirable contract for a special textbook on any particular subject with
publishers whose books have been given its approval, the State...
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16-36-4
Section 16-36-4 Local textbook selection committee - Appointment; filing of school board
policies and names of members with State Superintendent of Education; affidavit and terms
of members. Repealed by Act 98-320, §13 effective July 1, 1998. (Acts 1965, 1st Ex. Sess.,
No. 221, p. 288, §9.)...
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16-6D-6
Section 16-6D-6 Innovation plan. (a) The innovation plan of a local school system shall
include, at a minimum, all of the following: (1) The school year that the local school system
expects the school flexibility contract to begin. (2) The list of state laws, regulations,
and policies, including rules, regulations, and policies promulgated by the State Board of
Education and the State Department of Education, that the local school system is seeking to
waive in its school flexibility contract. (3) A list of schools included in the innovation
plan of the local school system. (b) A local school system is accountable to the state for
the performance of all schools in its system, including innovative schools, under state and
federal accountability requirements. (c) A local school system may not, pursuant to this chapter,
waive requirements imposed by federal law, requirements related to the health and safety of
students or employees, requirements imposed by ethics laws, requirements imposed...
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16-13A-9
Section 16-13A-9 Reserve funds. (a) A local board of education shall develop a plan
to establish and maintain a minimum reserve fund equal to one month's operating expenses.
Also, a local board of education shall develop a plan to replenish its reserve fund after
any withdrawal is made pursuant to subsection (b). (b) Local boards of education are authorized
to expend such reserve funds if either of the following occur: (1) The Governor declares proration
in the Education Trust Fund. (2) Total state funds appropriated by the Legislature to the
local boards of education are less than the same appropriation for the preceding fiscal year.
(Act 2006-196, p. 275, §2; Act 2009-747, p. 2266, §1.)...
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16-46-9
Section 16-46-9 Review by State Board of Education; review by Circuit Court of Montgomery
County. Any person or school or private postsecondary institution aggrieved by the actions
of the Department of Postsecondary Education with respect to exemption, issuance, denial,
deferral, probation, suspension, or revocation of a license or permit provided for in Sections
16-46-3, 16-46-5, and 16-46-6, may file within 30 days a petition for review by the State
Board of Education. The aggrieved person, school, or institution shall then be entitled to
a hearing before the State Board of Education. The person, school, or institution may be represented
by counsel at the hearing. The aggrieved person, school, or institution may adduce evidence,
both oral and documentary, at such hearing and on official record if such hearing shall be
transcribed by a qualified court reporter. After the State Board of Education acts on the
petition for review, any person, school, or institution aggrieved by the State...
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16-1-8.1
Section 16-1-8.1 Classroom instructional support. (a) For purposes of this section,
classroom instructional support means all elements of classroom instructional support as provided
in the Foundation Program, with the exception of textbook funds, as specified in Sections
16-6B-10 and 16-13-231, including, but not limited to, library enhancement, student materials,
professional development, technology, common purchases, and other classroom instructional
support approved by the State Board of Education. All funds allocated in the Foundation Program
for library enhancement, student materials, technology, professional development, and common
purchases shall be spent only for the purpose for which they were allocated. Library media
specialists shall be consulted in budgeting all library enhancement funds. (b) The procedures
for ordering, and the regulations applying to, classroom instructional support shall be as
follows: (1) BUDGET COMMITTEE. Each school shall have a budget committee. The...
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16-27-1
Section 16-27-1 State Board of Education to prescribe rules and regulations. The State
Board of Education shall prescribe rules and regulations: (1) Requiring all local boards of
education which provide transportation services for pupils going to and from public elementary
and secondary schools of Alabama or in school-related activities, and the presidents of all
state community, junior and technical colleges and directors of all state technical institutes
and trade schools which provide transportation services for pupils going to and from said
technical institutes and trade schools or community, junior and technical colleges to employ
a competent supervisor or manager of such transportation services, whether such transportation
services are provided in publicly owned or privately owned buses; (2) Requiring periodic safety
inspection of all vehicles used for transporting pupils, whether such vehicles are publicly
or privately owned; (3) Requiring and providing for special training and...
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16-13-231
Section 16-13-231 Purposes and plan of apportionment. (a) In addition to all other appropriations
and apportionments of public school money now provided by law and made available for public
schools there shall be apportioned and paid to local boards of education from the Foundation
Program Fund, the amounts to be determined as hereinafter provided and in accordance with
regulations of the State Board of Education. This Foundation Program Fund shall be used principally:
(1) To aid in providing at least a 180 full instructional day minimum school term, or the
hourly equivalent thereof, except as otherwise provided in paragraph c. of subdivision (1)
of subsection (b); and, (2) To assist in the promotion of educational opportunity for all
children in the public schools. (b) The following requirements and procedures, supplemented
when necessary by regulations of the State Board of Education, shall govern the apportionment
of the fund: (1) REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FUND. In order for...
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