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16-22A-3
Section 16-22A-3 Definitions. When used in this chapter only, the following terms shall have
the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1)
APPLICANT. A certified or noncertified individual who submits an application for employment
to a local employing board or any nonpublic school, to act in any capacity in which the individual
will have unsupervised access to children in an educational environment. (2) APPLICANT FOR
CERTIFICATION. An individual who submits an application for certification issued by the State
Superintendent of Education. (3) AUTHORIZED EMPLOYER. Any educational entity authorized to
obtain criminal history background information, including the State Department of Education,
local employing boards, and nonpublic schools which are responsible for hiring employees or
contracting with private employers to provide personnel who have unsupervised access to children
in an educational setting. (4) CERTIFIED APPLICANT FOR EMPLOYMENT. A...
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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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16-3-17.3
Section 16-3-17.3 Flexible school terms. It is the intent of the Legislature that local school
systems be permitted to develop flexible school terms extending over the course of the 12
month calendar year. School systems desiring to use flexible school terms may utilize such
scheduling to develop tutorial programs or innovative programs for at-risk students or students
deemed academically deficient and to relieve overcrowded classroom conditions. Local school
systems desiring to develop flexible school terms shall, upon approval of the local board
of education, submit a plan to the State Superintendent of Education and upon his recommendation
and approval by the State Board of Education, the plan shall be adopted. No provision of The
Alabama Education Improvement Act of 1991 (Acts 1991, No. 91-323), shall be interpreted to
require personnel employed in local school systems to work longer than their current contract
provides. School personnel may work extended contract periods provided...
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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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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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16-9-18
Section 16-9-18 Condemnation and improvement of buildings and playgrounds; approval of contracts.
The county superintendent of education shall recommend to the county board of education for
condemnation school buildings which are unsanitary and unfit for use. He shall recommend in
writing all repairs, purchase of playgrounds and school sites and buildings to be erected
with state, county and local aid and shall see to it that the plans and specifications and
the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education, with reference to the erection,
repair and equipment of the school buildings, are carefully followed. He shall approve in
writing all contracts of whatever kind entered into by the county board of education. (School
Code 1927, §155; Code 1940, T. 52, §117.)...
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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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16-1-20.6
Section 16-1-20.6 Released time for student participation in religious instruction. (a) This
section shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Released Time Credit Act. (b) The Legislature
finds and declares all of the following: (1) That the United States Supreme Court, in its
decision in Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952), upheld the constitutionality of released
time programs for religious instruction for public school students during the school day.
(2) That the United States Constitution and state law allows local school districts to offer
religious released time education for the benefit of public school students. (3) That the
purpose of this section is to incorporate a constitutionally acceptable method of allowing
school districts to offer released time classes and, in grades where credit is earned, to
award students elective credit for classes taken during the school day in released time programs.
(c) As used in this section, the term released time means a period of...
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16-22A-31
Section 16-22A-31 Written consent; additional check. (a) The following persons shall obtain
a signed and dated written consent to obtain criminal history background information checks
for current public certified employees and current public noncertified employees who have
or seek to have unsupervised access to children in an educational setting: (1) Persons designated
by the public local employing board. (2) Persons designated by the State Department of Education.
(b) Refusal by a current public certified employee and current public noncertified employee
to sign and date a consent to obtain a criminal history background information check and to
provide two acceptable sets of fingerprints shall result in the preclusion of continued employment
or certification of the employee in a position requiring unsupervised access to children,
until such time as written permission has been given to the local employing board to conduct
the criminal history background information check. (c) If a...
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16-26A-4
Section 16-26A-4 Board of directors generally. (a) There is hereby created a board of directors
for the school, sometimes hereinafter referred to as the "board." The board shall
be composed of 21 members as follows: (1) The State Department of Education assistant state
superintendent in charge of curriculum development, or his or her designee. (2) The Chancellor
of the University of Alabama System, or his or her designee. (3) The President of Auburn University,
or his or her designee. (4) The President of the University of South Alabama, or his or her
designee. (5) The President of Alabama A&M University, or his or her designee. (6) The
Chair of the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science Foundation. (7) The Chair of the
House Standing Committee on Education, or his or her designee. (8) The Chair of the Senate
Standing Committee on Education, or his or her designee. (9) The Chair of the House Standing
Committee on Ways and Means Education, or his or her designee. (10) The Chair...
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