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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16-13-145
Section 16-13-145 Authority to borrow funds against revenues of current year; authority to contract with T.V.A. to obtain funds to improve energy-inefficient school buildings with approval of state superintendent. (a) Any local board of education shall have authority during any fiscal year upon the recommendation of the local superintendent of education, as the case may be, to borrow money in anticipation of the current revenues for that fiscal year and to pledge the current revenues for said fiscal year for the payment of such loan or loans if funds on hand are not sufficient to pay the salaries of teachers and to meet the current expenses when due; provided, that the party or parties making such loan or loans to a local board of education shall not be put upon inquiry as to the validity of such indebtedness because of this provision. The total amount of such loans a local board of education may have outstanding at any time during the fiscal year shall be determined as follows: From...
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16-13-234
Section 16-13-234 Allocation of funds. (a) In making apportionment of the Public School Fund held by the state, to the local boards of education, the State Superintendent of Education shall first set apart and distribute to the schools of each township the amount due from the state thereto as interest on its sixteenth section fund, or other trust fund held by the state. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to insure that no local board of education receive less state funds per pupil than it received in fiscal year 1994-95. For this reason the Foundation Program for each local board of education shall be supplemented, if necessary, by a hold harmless allowance. The base amount of each local board's hold harmless allowance calculation is the 1994-95 program cost as defined herein. The 1994-95 program cost of each local board of education was determined by using the first forty scholastic days of average daily membership from 1993-94. Beginning with the fiscal year 1995-96, the hold...
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16-22A-9
Section 16-22A-9 Collection and transfer of fingerprints, fees, and information. (a) Local employing boards and other public authorized employers required to obtain criminal history background information checks under this chapter shall collect and forward to the State Department of Education, two complete acceptable sets of fingerprints, written consent, and nonrefundable fee, when applicable, from applicants for certification, applicants for public employment, or public current employees under review, who have or seek to have unsupervised access to a child or children. (b) Nonpublic school employers shall voluntarily collect and forward two complete acceptable sets of fingerprints, written consent, and nonrefundable fee, when applicable, from applicants for nonpublic employment, nonpublic current employees, or nonpublic current employees under review, who have or seek to have unsupervised access to a child or children, to the Department of Public Safety to request a criminal history...
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16-60-115
Section 16-60-115 Adult Education, State Approving Agency, and Private School Licensure programs. (a) All powers, duties, responsibilities, and functions of, and all related records, property, equipment of, and all rights, obligations of, and unexpended balances of appropriations including federal and other funds or allocations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, of the Adult Education program, the State Approving Agency program, and the Private School Licensure program for postsecondary proprietary schools of the State Department of Education shall be transferred by the State Board of Education to the Postsecondary Education Department. Commencing on May 12, 2015, all authority vested in the Postsecondary Education Department pursuant to this subsection shall be transferred from the Postsecondary Education Department to the Alabama Community College System pursuant to Section 16-60-110.1. (b) All funds appropriated to the State Department of Education for the fiscal year...
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16-6C-2
Section 16-6C-2 School grading system. (a) In addition to any other labels or designations assigned to public schools and public school districts pursuant to a federal, state, school, district, or other assessment or accountability system, the State Superintendent of Education, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, shall develop a school grading system reflective of school and district performance. The grading system shall utilize the traditional A, B, C, D, or F framework. (1) Schools receiving a grade of "A" are making excellent progress. (2) Schools receiving a grade of "B" are making above average progress. (3) Schools receiving a grade of "C" are making satisfactory progress. (4) Schools receiving a grade of "D" are making less than satisfactory progress. (5) Schools receiving a grade of "F" are failing to make adequate progress. (b) In developing this school grading system, the State Superintendent of Education shall seek input from parents, teachers, school...
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16-6B-5
Section 16-6B-5 School safety and discipline accountability. In addition to providing quality instruction in classrooms and fiscal soundness, all local boards of education shall be accountable for compliance with statutes and regulations regarding school safety and discipline. The State Department of Education shall send to all local boards of education and all local superintendents of education, on or before August 1 of each year, a manual containing all acts of the Legislature and all regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education which pertain to school safety and discipline. Within thirty (30) days of receipt of this manual, each local board of education shall provide to the State Board of Education a report, in the form prescribed by the State Department of Education, describing its compliance with these acts and regulations. If a local board of education is determined by the State Board of Education to have failed to comply in any material respect with these acts and...
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44-1-78
Section 44-1-78 Certain Eufaula Adolescent Center School instructional personnel considered employees under Department of Youth Services Local Education Agency School District. All appropriate State Department of Education or teacher certified personnel employed with the Department of Mental Health as Eufaula Adolescent Center School instructional personnel on May 28, 1996, shall become employees under the Department of Youth Services Local Education Agency School District. Said employees shall be given credit for continuous teaching experience at the Eufaula Adolescent Center School relating to consideration for tenure. All salary schedules, leaves, benefits, and insurance shall be congruent with the Department of Youth Services Special School District. (Acts 1996, No. 96-731, p. 1224, ยง2.)...
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16-22A-33
Section 16-22A-33 Submission of additional reports; suitability determination. Upon request of the State Superintendent of Education, the Department of Public Safety shall request and obtain nationwide criminal history background information reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and statewide criminal history background information reports from the Alabama Bureau of Investigation for each current public certified employee and current public noncertified employee within a reasonable time after receipt of the request. Within a reasonable time after receipt of the reports, the Department of Public Safety shall submit both the nationwide and statewide criminal history background information reports directly to the State Department of Education. (1) If the criminal history background information reports pertain to a current public certified employee, the State Superintendent of Education shall review the criminal history record information reports and make a diligent effort to...
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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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