16-6B-11
Section 16-6B-11 Paperwork Reduction Committee. (a) The Legislature finds that the excessive paperwork required of teachers and other public education employees hinders the prime responsibility of public education: The education of the children of Alabama. The Legislature also finds that excessive and time-consuming reporting requirements levied on school systems requires automation in order to for timely reporting to occur. The Legislature further finds that the excessive paperwork required of teachers has become so burdensome that teachers do not have adequate time to prepare lesson plans or to devote individual attention to those students who require special assistance. The Legislature further finds that, for teachers to have time to teach, it is imperative that all unnecessary paperwork be eliminated from our public schools and necessary paperwork be automated to the maximum practical extent. (b) The Paperwork Reduction Committee is created. The membership of the committee shall...
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41-16-123
Section 41-16-123 Provisions applicable to certain property held by division. This section shall apply only to that property that has been held by the division for a period of not less than 60 days from the date the property is first published in the list of surplus property, as set out in subsection (b) of Section 41-16-121, and not purchased by any eligible entity as set out in subsection (e) of Section 41-16-120 as follows: (1) All contracts made by or on behalf of the State of Alabama or a department, board, bureau, commission, institution, corporation, or agency thereof, of whatever nature for the sale or disposal of tangible personal property owned by the State of Alabama, other than the following: a. Alcoholic beverages. b. Products of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind. c. Barter arrangements of the state prison system. d. Books. e. School supplies. f. Food. g. Property used in vocational projects. h. Livestock. i. Property owned by any state college or university,...
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16-3-16
Section 16-3-16 Teachers' training and certification; reciprocity. (a) Subject to the provisions of Chapter 23 of this title, the State Board of Education, through its executive officer, shall prescribe rules and regulations governing the training and the certification of teachers in the public schools of the state, and for the acceptance of the diplomas of the colleges and universities of Alabama, as well as of other states. The State Board of Education, with the advice of the State Superintendent of Education, shall have full power and authority to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations governing the issuance of professional and special, alternative, and emergency certificates consistent with the provisions of Chapter 23 of this title. (b) Alabama shall use certification by the National Boards of Professional Teaching Standards as national reciprocity when national certification has been fully implemented. (School Code 1927, §41; Code 1940, T. 52, §20; Acts 1991, No. 91-323, p....
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16-54-3
Section 16-54-3 Purpose; mission. The University of Montevallo is established generally for the purpose of giving therein instructions in the liberal arts and sciences and in technical and professional subjects suitable for both men and women. To that end, departments or subjects of instruction may be established from time to time by the trustees upon the recommendation of the president in accord with the provisions of Section 16-5-6. The overriding mission of the University of Montevallo, unique in Alabama higher education, is to provide to students from throughout the state an affordable, geographically accessible, "small college" public higher educational experience of high quality with a strong emphasis on undergraduate liberal studies and with professional programs supported by a broad base of arts and sciences, designed for their intellectual and personal growth in pursuit of meaningful employment and responsible, informed citizenship. Growing out of that mission and inherent in...
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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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16-6G-6
Section 16-6G-6 Dyslexia therapist certification endoresement; accreditation of teacher preparation programs; licensure and certification of teachers; professional learning. (a) The State Superintendent of Education shall develop, and the State Board of Education shall approve, a dyslexia therapist certification endorsement on or before December 31, 2019. (1) K-12 and early childhood teachers who have completed an International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council endorsed training course and have received a passing score on the Academic Language Therapy Association's Certified Academic Language Therapy assessment, or the International Dyslexia Association's Knowledge and Practice Examination of Effective Reading Instruction, and who hold a valid Professional Educator Certificate shall be eligible for a dyslexia therapist endorsement. (2) Teacher preparation programs at public colleges and universities in the state shall offer dyslexia therapy teacher preparation courses...
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21-1-24
Section 21-1-24 Textbooks and instructional materials other than prescribed by State Board of Education. The Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, upon the recommendation of the president, may select and adopt for use in the tax-supported public elementary and high school programs at the institute, textbooks and instructional materials, other than prescribed by the State Board of Education, which are suitable for the needs of deaf and blind students. Whenever textbooks and instructional materials are substituted for the state-approved or state-adopted books and materials, such books or materials shall be used by the teachers in the institute public school programs in teaching any course or courses for which a substitution has been made. Provided, however, such Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind shall provide free textbooks to all grades which would be provided under the terms of subsection (c) of Section 16-36-65. (Acts 1983, 4th Ex....
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21-9-11
Section 21-9-11 Duties of commissioner. (a) The commissioner shall direct all matters involving the department in conformance with state and federal law and the policies of the board. (b) The commissioner shall perform the following specific duties: (1) Enforce the rules and regulations of the board governing the department's services and programs. (2) Appoint to positions of employment those professional, clerical, and other assistants, including specialists and consultants, on a full or part-time basis as may be needed. The number of employees, their qualifications, their compensation, and all other expenditures of the commissioner shall be within the limits of a budget approved by the board. The commissioner and all employees of the department shall be entitled to all benefits accruing to merit system employees including the right to accumulate leave and participate in the Teachers' Retirement System under the same terms and conditions as employees of the State Department of...
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45-49-100.40
Section 45-49-100.40 Powers of board. The board of school commissioners shall be entitled to receive, levy, assess, and collect all devises, revenues, and taxes to which they were by law entitled at the date of the organization of the Board of Education of the State of Alabama, and they shall have full power to continue in force, revise, modify, and improve, as to them may see fit, the public school system now existing in the County of Mobile, and to make such bylaws, rules, and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the state and of the United States, for the government of the board and of the schools, as they may deem expedient or necessary. They shall hold regular meetings of the board at such times as they may fix upon and adjourned or special meetings when necessary. Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but no business involving a change in the system, rules, and regulations or affecting the general interest of the county...
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12-15-102
Section 12-15-102 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following words and phrases have the following meanings: (1) ADULT. An individual 19 years of age or older. (2) AFTERCARE. Conditions and supervision as the juvenile court orders after release from the Department of Youth Services. (3) CHILD. An individual under the age of 18 years, or under 21 years of age and before the juvenile court for a delinquency matter arising before that individual's 18th birthday, or under 19 years of age and before the juvenile court for a child in need of supervision matter or commitment to the State Department of Mental Health or under 19 years of age and before the juvenile court for a proceeding initiated under Section 12-15-115(b)(2). Where a delinquency petition alleges that an individual, prior to the individual's 18th birthday, has committed an offense for which there is no statute of limitation pursuant to Section 15-3-5, the term child also shall include the individual subject to the...
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