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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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16-13A-7
Section 16-13A-7 Audits. (a)(1) The yearly business and financial transactions of a
local board of education shall be audited as early as possible after the end of the fiscal
year. (2) The audits of the books and accounts of local boards of education shall be conducted
by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts
shall audit, review, and otherwise investigate the receipts and disbursements of funds of
each local board in the same manner as audits are performed on other agencies and departments
of the State of Alabama. (3) Any local board of education governing a city school system,
other than those city systems required by law to be audited by the Department of Examiners
of Public Accounts on June 1, 2006, may employ a certified public accounting firm or firms
or use the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts to perform its yearly financial audit
of its books and accounts including a legal compliance audit and program compliance...
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16-22-14
Section 16-22-14 Personnel records of education employees. (a) Definitions. When used
in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) EMPLOYEE.
Any person employed by a school board. (2) EXECUTIVE OFFICER. The superintendent of any public
county or city school system; the President of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the
president of any two-year school or college under the auspices of the State Board of Education;
the Superintendent of the Department of Youth Services School District; the Executive Director
of the Alabama School of Fine Arts; and the Executive Director of the Alabama High School
of Mathematics and Science. (3) LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCY PERSONNEL SYSTEM (LEAPS). The data
base established and maintained by the Alabama Department of Education for record keeping
of all data related to certificated and non-certificated personnel at each board of education.
(4) PERSONNEL AND ENROLLMENT REPORTING SYSTEM (PERS). The data base established and...
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16-13-191
Section 16-13-191 School tax district - Boundaries fixed by county board. In order to
make it possible to work out a system of local tax units adapted to the needs of the whole
county, the county board of education of its own initiative shall fix the boundaries of any
school tax district within its jurisdiction in which it is proposed to levy a local school
tax. In making application for a special election in any such district, the county board of
education shall submit a map made by the county surveyor, or other competent person, showing
the boundaries of the school tax district for which a special tax levy is proposed, indicating
the section or sections and ranges, together with the correct description of the boundaries
of the said district for which a special tax levy is proposed. These maps shall also show
the location of public utilities, such as power plants, railroad and telegraph lines, if any,
in such districts, and the railroad mileage for each and every corporation having...
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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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16-36-62
Section 16-36-62 Local textbook committee. (a) A local textbook committee or committees
shall be appointed by each separate local board of education. The number, size, and composition,
which shall include parents, of the committee or committees shall be determined by each local
board of education. A copy of local school board policies in regard to local textbook committees
shall be kept on file by each local superintendent. Names of each person serving on a local
textbook committee shall also be kept on file by each local superintendent. (b) In order to
qualify as a member of the committee, each member of the local textbook committee and its
secretary shall prepare an affidavit to be filed with the local board of education within
10 days after notice of the member's appointment stating each of the following: (1) The member
agrees to discharge faithfully all the duties imposed upon him or her as a member or as secretary
of the textbook committee. (2) The member has no interest, directly...
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16-46A-1
Section 16-46A-1 Adoption of policy governing virtual school program. (a)(1) Before
the 2016-2017 school year, each local board of education shall adopt a policy providing, at
a minimum, a virtual education option for eligible students in grades nine to 12, inclusive,
beginning with that school year. (2) Any virtual school operating in this state that provides
educational services to public school students shall comply with this chapter. (b) The policy
adopted by the local board of education pursuant to this chapter shall govern the virtual
school program offered by the local board of education. The policy shall offer students in
grades nine to 12, inclusive, an online pathway for earning a high school diploma and, at
a minimum, shall include all of the following: (1) The scope and delivery of virtual options.
(2) Student eligibility criteria for initial and continuing participation in the virtual program.
(3) Specific requirements for monitoring performance and testing protocol...
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16-63-4
Section 16-63-4 Duties of local boards of education; establishment of community schools
advisory committees and employment of coordinators; agreements; local funds. Every local board
of education which elects to apply for funding pursuant to this chapter shall: (1) Develop
programs and plans for increased community involvement in the public schools based upon policies
and guidelines adopted by the State Board of Education. (2) Develop programs and plans for
increased community use of public school facilities based upon policies and guidelines adopted
by the State Board of Education. (3) Establish rules governing the implementation of such
programs and plans in its public schools and submit these rules along with adopted programs
and plans to the State Board of Education for approval by the State Board of Education. Programs
and plans developed by a local board of education shall provide for the establishment of one
or more community schools advisory committees for the public schools...
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16-6G-5
Section 16-6G-5 Reading and intervention programs; individual reading improvement plan;
summer reading camps; Alabama Summer Achievement Program; retention of students; reporting
requirements. (a) To ensure that public school students are able to read at or above grade
level by the end of third grade, each local education agency shall offer a comprehensive core
reading program to all students based on the science of reading which develops foundational
reading skills. In addition, no school district may use any curriculum for public K-3 students
that does not have instructional time included. (b) Based on the results of the reading assessment
in Section 16-6G-3, each K-3 student who exhibits a reading deficiency, or the characteristics
of dyslexia, shall be provided an appropriate reading intervention program to address his
or her specific deficiencies. Additionally, students shall be evaluated after every grading
period and, if a student is determined to have a reading deficiency, the...
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16-1-13
Section 16-1-13 Teaching pupils of disparate ability, background and achievement. Whenever
any city, county or other local school board determines it to be in the best interest of the
public school pupils of the local school system, it may prescribe and from time to time adjust
and adapt and further prescribe the manner, method and procedure to be employed in classrooms
for teaching pupils of disparate ability, background and achievement in the public schools
within its jurisdiction. Its authority in this respect shall include but shall not be limited
to prescribing the grouping and classification of students within the same grade level, based
upon considerations of native ability as indicated by intelligence tests; the general academic
achievement, and level of achievement in a particular subject area. Any such grouping of pupils
within a class or grade shall be prescribed by the local board of education only after consultation
with the superintendent of the school, teachers, students...
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