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16-6F-10
Section 16-6F-10 Reporting of enrollment, attendance, etc.; funding. (a) Enrollment.
Students enrolled in and attending public charter schools shall be included in all enrollment
and attendance counts of students of the local school system in which the students reside.
The public charter school shall report all such data to the local school systems of residence
in a timely manner. Each local school system shall report such enrollment, attendance, and
other counts of students to the department in the manner required by the department. (b) Operational
funding. (1) The following provisions govern operational funding: a. In their initial year,
and in subsequent years to accommodate growth as articulated in their application, funding
for public charter schools shall be provided from the Education Trust Fund in the Foundation
Program appropriation for current units. Subsequent year funding for public charter schools
shall be based on the Foundation Program allocation and other public school...
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16-30A-7
Section 16-30A-7 Attendance and activities of students with diabetes. A student with
diabetes in public school may attend the school the student would otherwise attend if the
student did not have diabetes, and the diabetes care specified in Section 16-30A-5
shall be provided at the school. A school system may not restrict a student who has diabetes
from attending any school on the basis that the student has diabetes, that the school does
not have a full-time school nurse, or that the school does not have trained unlicensed medication
assistants. A student with diabetes may participate in extracurricular and co-curricular activities
to the same extent as a student without diabetes. In addition, a school shall not require
or pressure parents or guardians to provide care for a student with diabetes at school or
at school-sponsored activities in which the student is a direct participant as set forth in
Section 16-30A-5. However, if the parent or guardian of a student with diabetes does
not...
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16-6F-11
Section 16-6F-11 Public School and College Authority funding; local school system facilities
and land. (a) Access to Alabama Public School and College Authority (PSCA) funds. (1) Public
charter schools shall have the same rights and access to PSCA funding opportunities as non-charter
public schools. (2) The PSCA and the department shall adopt and maintain a policy to ensure
that public charter schools receive access to equitable facilities funding. (b) Access to
local school system facilities and land. (1) A public charter school shall have a right of
first refusal to purchase or lease at or below fair market value a closed or unused public
school facility or property located in a school system from which it draws its students if
the school system decides to sell or lease the public school facility or property. (2) Unused
facility means a school building or other local board of education owned building that is
or could be appropriate for school use, in which more than 60 percent of the...
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16-6F-8
Section 16-6F-8 Performance framework; oversight; renewal; revocation; school closure
and dissolution; reporting. (a) Performance framework. (1) The performance provisions within
the charter contract shall be based on a performance framework that clearly sets forth the
academic and operational performance indicators, measures, and metrics that will guide the
authorizer's evaluations of each public charter school. The performance framework shall include
indicators, measures, and metrics for, at a minimum: a. Student academic proficiency, which
includes, but is not limited to, performance on state standardized assessments. b. Student
academic growth, which includes, but is not limited to, performance on state standardized
assessments. c. Achievement gaps in both proficiency and growth between major student subgroups.
d. Attendance. e. Recurrent enrollment from year to year. f. Postsecondary readiness for high
schools. g. Financial performance and sustainability. h. Board performance and...
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16-1-41.1
Section 16-1-41.1 School board governance improvement. (a) This section shall
be known and may be cited as the School Board Governance Improvement Act of 2012. (b) The
Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) That the purpose of this section
is to enhance the effectiveness of public education governance in Alabama through the establishment
of training requirements, boardsmanship standards, and accountability measures that are designed
to promote informed deliberations and decisions, to revise the qualifications for serving
as a member of a local board of education, to provide for a code of conduct for each member
of a local board of education in order to better ensure that any decision or action of a local
board of education is based on the interests of students or the system, and to foster the
development and implementation of organizational practices that are designed to promote broad
support of the public schools. (2) A local board of education is the legally...
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16-25-11.7
Section 16-25-11.7 Purchase of credit by certain members employed as teachers in state
public schools regardless of manner in which salary was paid or source thereof. (a) Any person
who on October 1, 1990 was a member of the Teachers' Retirement System who was employed in
a public school in Alabama shall be entitled to receive credit for all service rendered in
such public school regardless of the manner in which the member's salary was paid or the source
of funds for such salary; provided, however, that this provision shall not apply to any person
who at the time of such service with a public school was also a student at the institution
by which he was employed. (b) Any person employed in the capacity set out in subsection (a)
of this section shall be entitled to receive credit for all service as a teacher rendered
by him provided that said person pays to the Secretary-Treasurer within one year from October
1, 1990 for each year of claimed service, a sum equal to a percentage of his...
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16-1-24.1
Section 16-1-24.1 Safe school and drug-free school policy; treatment of policy violators;
promulgation and distribution of discipline policy; liability limited for discipline actions;
local boards may adopt more stringent guidelines. (a) The Legislature finds a compelling public
interest in ensuring that schools are made safe and drug-free for all students and school
employees. The Legislature finds the need for a comprehensive safe school and drug-free school
policy to be adopted by the State Board of Education. This policy should establish minimum
standards for classes of offenses and prescribe uniform minimum procedures and penalties for
those who violate the policies. It is the intent of the Legislature that our schools remain
safe and drug-free for all students and school employees. The State Board of Education shall
adopt and all local boards of education shall uniformly enforce policies that protect all
students and school employees. The State Board of Education shall require...
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16-28-12
Section 16-28-12 Person in loco parentis responsible for child's school attendance and
behavior; noncompliance; local boards to promulgate written behavior policy, contents, annual
distribution, receipt to be documented; school officials required to report noncompliance;
failure to report suspected violation; district attorneys vigorously to enforce provisions.
(a) Each parent, guardian, or other person having control or custody of any child required
to attend school or receive regular instruction by a private tutor who fails to have the child
enrolled in school or who fails to send the child to school, or have him or her instructed
by a private tutor during the time the child is required to attend a public school, private
school, church school, denominational school, or parochial school, or be instructed by a private
tutor, or fails to require the child to regularly attend the school or tutor, or fails to
compel the child to properly conduct himself or herself as a pupil in any public...
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16-6D-4
Section 16-6D-4 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) ACADEMIC YEAR. The 12-month period beginning on July 1 and
ending on the following June 30. (2) DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The Alabama Department of Revenue.
(3) EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP. A grant made by a scholarship granting organization to an eligible
student to cover all or part of the tuition and mandatory fees for one academic year charged
by a qualifying school to the eligible student receiving the scholarship; provided, however,
that an educational scholarship shall not exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) for an elementary
school student, eight thousand dollars ($8,000) for a middle school student, or ten thousand
dollars ($10,000) for a high school student per academic year. The term does not include a
lump sum, block grant, or similar payment by a scholarship granting organization to a qualifying
school that assigns the responsibility in whole or in part 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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