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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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16-36-68
Section 16-36-68 Purchasing textbooks and accountability for textbooks. (a) The local boards
of education, county commissions, and municipal councils or other governing boards of a municipality
may appropriate funds for the purpose of creating local revolving funds to be used in securing
and distributing textbooks and for the purpose of contributing to the expense of furnishing
textbooks. These revolving funds shall be reimbursed from moneys received from sales of textbooks.
(b) Local boards of education, county commissions, and other like governing bodies of the
counties or municipalities may appropriate funds for the purpose of purchasing textbooks for
free distribution or for rental to the patrons of its public schools under such rules and
regulations as shall be prescribed by the respective local boards of education. (c) All books
contracted for shall be shipped upon purchase orders of the local boards of education. The
publisher or publishing company shipping the books shall...
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16-8-42.1
Section 16-8-42.1 Authority for risk management cooperative. (a) Definitions. For the purpose
of this section, the following terms shall have the meanings subscribed to them by this section:
(1) RISK MANAGEMENT COOPERATIVE. An entity or entities, to be formed by local boards of education
in any combination of 25 or more for the purpose of pooling resources and funds to jointly
purchase insurance or to self-insure such boards of education, their members and employees,
against risks to which they are exposed. (2) MEMBER BOARDS OF EDUCATION. A city board of education,
county board of education, Department of Youth Services School District, Alabama Institute
for Deaf and Blind, State Board of Education or other public education governing board which
elects to pool its resources and funds with one or more other boards of education for the
purpose of forming a risk management cooperative. (b) Boards of education in any combination
of 25 or more may establish a risk management cooperative for...
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16-13-6
Section 16-13-6 Federal grants, appropriations, etc. - State Board of Education designated
state agency in administration. The State Board of Education is hereby designated as state
agency in the administration, distribution and supervision of the expenditure of any funds
herein provided and is hereby authorized and empowered, insofar as it is not specifically
prohibited by the Constitution of Alabama, to meet the terms of such grants, appropriations
or allocations and is hereby authorized to establish the necessary rules and regulations governing
the allocation of funds derived from such grants, appropriations or allocations to county
and city boards of education in the state and to set the conditions upon which local school
systems may receive and expend such allocations, it being the intent of Sections 16-13-5 through
16-13-7 to permit the State of Alabama to participate fully in any or all grants, appropriations
or allocations made available to it by the federal government or any...
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16-16-14
Section 16-16-14 Use of bond proceeds for loans to local boards of education. The proceeds
derived from the sale of any bonds issued pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 3 of Act 98-373
shall be deposited in the State Treasury and shall be carried in a separate fund therein for
the account of the authority, which shall pay therefrom the expenses of issuance thereof.
The proceeds from the sale of the bonds remaining after payment of the expenses of issuance
thereof shall be retained in such fund and, until they are paid out, shall be invested by
the State Treasurer at the direction of the authority in permitted investments which mature
at such time or times as the authority shall direct. Monies in the fund (whether original
proceeds from the sale of the bonds or principal proceeds of matured permitted investments)
shall be available for loan by the authority. The authority is hereby authorized to loan,
and each local board of education is hereby authorized to borrow, such monies under...
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16-23-3
Section 16-23-3 Provisional certificates. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the
State of Alabama shall modify its policies relative to the certification of teachers to permit
an expanded alternative certification program for prospective teachers for grades six through
12. In addition to certificates issued pursuant to this chapter to individuals graduating
from approved teacher education programs, the State Board of Education shall adopt policies,
procedures, rules, regulations, or standards authorizing an alternative certificate to be
issued by the State Superintendent of Education to an individual, regardless of whether the
individual is a graduate of an approved teacher education program, where the applicant shall:
(1) Hold an earned bachelor's or higher degree from a regionally accredited institution of
higher education. (2) Submit the required application forms and fees and, when required, a
separate fingerprint fee, along with fingerprints and release forms. (3) Be...
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31-6-15
Section 31-6-15 Reimbursement of educational institutions providing benefits to veterans and
dependents. The benefits provided in this chapter shall be paid from an annual appropriation
from the Education Trust Fund to reimburse every Alabama state institution of higher learning,
college, university, or Alabama community or technical college in which benefits are given
to veterans, their wives, widows, or children under this chapter. Such reimbursement shall
be made timely at the end of each academic quarter or semester for all tuition reimbursements
for the certified invoices submitted by such institution or school to the State Department
of Veterans' Affairs, and shall be supported by names of the students receiving such benefits,
together with the amounts claimed for each student. Any amount of in-state tuition, books,
or fees not paid by the combination of federal, state, and third party funds may be billed
to students receiving such benefits or waived by the institution or school....
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16-13-234.1
Section 16-13-234.1 Funding salary increases mandated by Legislature. (a) Any local board of
education receiving a hold harmless allowance as provided for in Section 16-13-234, may use
part or all of the funds received by the local board from the Public School Fund for capital
outlay allowance to pay the costs of any salary increase mandated by the Legislature, including
the costs of fringe benefits, not covered by an adjustment to the hold harmless allowance.
(b) Prior to using its capital outlay allowance for salary increases mandated by the Legislature,
including the costs of fringe benefits, the local board of education, by a majority vote,
must adopt a resolution transferring the capital outlay allowance to the general fund of the
local board and earmark the funds for salary increases and associated fringe benefits. The
local board of education must also submit a copy of the resolution to the State Superintendent
of Education. (Acts 1997, No. 97-889, p. 249, ยงยง 1, 2.)...
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16-22A-5
Section 16-22A-5 Agencies required to conduct criminal history background information checks.
(a) A criminal history background information check shall be conducted on all applicants seeking
positions with, and on all current employees under review employed by any local employing
board, and any State Department of Education personnel as determined by the State Superintendent
of Education, who have unsupervised access to and provide education, training, instruction,
or supervision for children in an educational setting. (b) A criminal history background information
check shall be conducted on all applicants seeking positions with, and on all current employees
and current employees under review employed by any nonpublic school, who have unsupervised
access to or who provide education, training, instruction, or supervision for children in
an educational setting. (c) No institution listed in subsection (a) or subsection (b) shall
hire an individual who may have unsupervised access to a...
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16-46A-4
Section 16-46A-4 Legislative Task Force. (a) A legislative task force representing local school
superintendents, local school board members, administrators, teachers, and technology practitioners
is established to review and make recommendations for realigning the funding, structure, and
curriculum of the ACCESS program and to aid in the implementation of this chapter. The task
force shall consist of all of the following: (1) Four members, with two appointed by the Chair
of the Senate Education and Youth Affairs Committee and two appointed by the Chair of the
House of Representatives Education Policy Committee. (2) Two members, with one appointed by
the Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee and one appointed by the
Chair of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Education Committee. (3) Two members
appointed by the Governor. (4) Two members appointed by the State Superintendent of Education.
(5) One representative from each of the following: The Alabama...
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