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45-42-102
Section 45-42-102 Substitution of books or texts for state-approved or state-adopted textbooks.
In Limestone County, the county board of education, upon recommendation of the county superintendent
of education, may substitute other books or texts for use in the county schools under its
jurisdiction for the textbooks on the list of state-approved or state-adopted textbooks prescribed
by the State Board of Education. Whenever books or texts are substituted for the state-approved
or state-adopted textbooks, the books or texts shall be used by the teachers in the county
school system in teaching any course or courses for which a substitution has been made. The
textbook shall be paid for with state funds in the same manner as textbooks are paid for in
other local school systems which have substituted textbooks for local use. (Act 97-862, p.
202, ยง 1.)...
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16-16-15
Section 16-16-15 Incentive fund and council. (a) There is hereby created the Alabama Public
School and College Education Incentive Fund (Incentive Fund). Fifty-five million dollars ($55,000,000)
from the first series of bonds issued pursuant to Act 2007-415 shall be deposited into the
Incentive Fund. (b) There is hereby created the Alabama Public School and College Education
Incentive Fund Council. The council shall be made up of the State Superintendent of Education;
the Director of Finance; one member, who shall not be an elected official, appointed by the
Governor; the Lieutenant Governor; the Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation-Education
Committee; and the Chair of the House Education Appropriations Committee. The Lieutenant Governor
and legislative members of the council shall be entitled to their regular per diem when attending
council meetings. The council created by this section shall allocate capital expenditures
from the Incentive Fund. Authorized expenditures from the...
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16-28B-3
Section 16-28B-3 Definitions. The following terms have the following meanings: (1) BULLYING.
A continuous pattern of intentional behavior that takes place on or off of school property,
on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored function including, but not limited to, cyberbullying
or written, electronic, verbal, or physical acts that are reasonably perceived as being motivated
by any characteristic of a student, or by the association of a student with an individual
who has a particular characteristic, if the characteristic falls into one of the categories
of personal characteristics contained in the model policy adopted by the department or by
a local board, and implemented at each school. To constitute bullying, a pattern of behavior
may do any of the following: a. Place a student in reasonable fear of harm to his or her person
or damage to his or her property. b. Have the effect of substantially interfering with the
educational performance, opportunities, or benefits of a student. c....
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16-36-64
Section 16-36-64 Statewide textbook contracts. (a) No contract shall be made pursuant to this
article for the purchase of textbooks rejected by the State Board of Education. The only contracts
entered into by the State Board of Education pursuant to this article shall be for textbooks
considered by the State Textbook Committee and adopted by the State Board of Education as
provided for in this article. (b) In addition to all other laws which forbid the use of textbooks
in the public schools of the state by authors who are members of the Communist Party or members
of communist front organizations, all contracts with publishers for textbooks made pursuant
to this article shall stipulate that the author or authors of such book or books is not a
member of the Communist Party or known advocate of communism or Marxist socialism and is not
a member of a communist front organization. (c) The maximum price at which the State Board
of Education shall contract for local boards of education to pay...
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16-5-8
Section 16-5-8 Review, coordination, establishment, etc., of programs; transfer of credits;
Articulation and General Studies Committee. (a)(1) The Commission on Higher Education is authorized
to review periodically all new and existing programs and units of instruction, research, and
public service funded by state appropriations at the state universities and colleges and to
share with the appropriate governing board, through the president of the institution, and
state Legislature, its recommendations. (2) As a part of its program review process, the commission
shall enforce, monitor, and report on minimum degree productivity standards for all existing
programs of instruction at public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education.
Productivity standards shall be based, primarily, but not exclusively, on the annual average
number of degrees conferred during a five-year period for senior institutions and a three-year
period for two-year institutions, as verified by the...
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16-61C-5
Section 16-61C-5 Appointment of director; responsibilities of superintendent. The State Superintendent
of Education may appoint a full-time director for the Science in Motion Program who shall
be responsible for the day-to-day administration, monitoring and coordination of the ASIM
Program. The State Superintendent of Education shall be responsible for the following: (1)
Initiate the preparation of proposals for funding grants from governmental, corporate or private
sources. If, as a requirement for receiving grant funds, the grant-awarding entity requires
the participation of private schools in the Alabama Science in Motion Program, the superintendent
is hereby authorized to include private schools to the extent that the requirement is satisfied.
(2) Establish the ASIM Program standards upon approval of the State Board of Education and
certify that each network annually meets the overall standards of the ASIM Program as a prior
condition for the allocation of the respective shares of...
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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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25-4-151
Section 25-4-151 Effect of challenges to or invalidation of federal unemployment compensation
amendments of 1976. In the event any portion of Section 115 of the unemployment compensation
amendments of 1976 (Public Law 94-566, 94th Congress, dated October 20, 1976), as it applies
to the requirement for states to provide coverage of certain services performed for local
governmental entities under the various states' unemployment compensation law, is determined
to be unconstitutional or invalid in a final adjudication by the courts of the United States,
then from and after the date of such final adjudication, no local governmental entity of any
county or municipality in the State of Alabama or their instrumentalities, or any separate
public primary and secondary school system, as defined in Section 25-4-10, shall be required
to participate in the unemployment compensation program; provided, that nothing herein shall
be construed as invalidating the entitlement of such entities to elect...
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26-24-23
Section 26-24-23 Duties of office. The Office of School Readiness shall do all of the following:
(1) Establish criteria and administer such programs and services as may be necessary for the
operation and management of a voluntary prekindergarten program. (2) Administer such programs
and services as may be necessary for the operation and management of preschool and certain
child development programs coordinating with the Department of Education for the inclusion
of preschool special education. (3) Ensure that the prekindergarten program provides a developmentally
appropriate preschool program emphasizing growth in language and literacy, math concepts,
science, arts, physical development, and personal and social competence. (4) Receive and disperse
any funds appropriated to the office from the Legislature for the establishment, operation,
and administration of the prekindergarten program. The budget of the office shall be part
of the Department of Early Childhood Education. (5) Assist...
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41-16-50
Section 41-16-50 Contracts for which competitive bidding required. (a) With the exception of
contracts for public works whose competitive bidding requirements are governed exclusively
by Title 39, all expenditure of funds of whatever nature for labor, services, work, or for
the purchase of materials, equipment, supplies, or other personal property involving fifteen
thousand dollars ($15,000) or more, and the lease of materials, equipment, supplies, or other
personal property where the lessee is, or becomes legally and contractually, bound under the
terms of the lease, to pay a total amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) or more, made
by or on behalf of any state trade school, state junior college, state college, or university
under the supervision and control of the Alabama Community College System, the Alabama Fire
College, the district boards of education of independent school districts, the county commissions,
the governing bodies of the municipalities of the state, and the...
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