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16-3-16.1
Section 16-3-16.1 Board to review requirements for teacher education; nationally normed teacher
examination. (a) The Legislature finds a compelling interest in adequately preparing teachers
to teach. The two basic components of teaching consist of knowing what to teach (content)
and knowing how to teach (methodology). To assure that teachers entering Alabama's classrooms
have been thoroughly prepared, the Legislature directs the State Board of Education to review
the requirements of programs for teacher education and preparation and select a nationally
normed teacher examination to be used. The nationally normed teacher examination may include
the National Teacher Exam or any other national equivalent exam. Colleges and universities
shall require each teacher candidate to pass the nationally normed examination as a condition
of graduation. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, a person can, at any
time, elect to not be a teacher candidate. The State Board of Education...
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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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16-6D-8
Section 16-6D-8 Tax credits; Failing Schools Income Tax Credit Account. (a) To provide educational
flexibility and state accountability for students in failing schools: (1) For tax years beginning
on and after January 1, 2013, an Alabama income tax credit is made available to the parent
of a student enrolled in or assigned to attend a failing school to help offset the cost of
transferring the student to a nonfailing public school or nonpublic school of the parent's
choice. The income tax credit shall be an amount equal to 80 percent of the average annual
state cost of attendance for a public K-12 student during the applicable tax year or the actual
cost of attending a nonfailing public school or nonpublic school, whichever is less. The actual
cost of attending a nonfailing public school or nonpublic school shall be calculated by adding
together any tuition amounts or mandatory fees charged by the school to the student as a condition
of enrolling or of maintaining enrollment in the...
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9-11-44.1
Section 9-11-44.1 Certification of completion of approved hunter education course required
for issuance of license; penalty; "supervision required" status. (a) It shall be
unlawful for any person born on or after August 1, 1977, and of 16 years of age or older,
or his or her agent, to procure any annual, trip, or wildlife heritage hunting license unless
the person has been issued and exhibits to the issuing agent at the time of purchasing any
annual, trip, or wildlife heritage hunting license, a certification of satisfactory completion
by the person of a hunter education course approved by the Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources. The person shall only be required to exhibit the certification at the time
of purchase of his or her initial license. The exhibition of the certification shall not be
required at the time of purchase of subsequent licenses if the person exhibits to the issuing
agent at the time of purchase a license which was issued by this state to him or her in...
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16-2-9
Section 16-2-9 Donation of surplus, non-expired food to charitable organizations for redistribution
to needy students. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following
meanings: (1) CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION. Any food bank or charitable organization as defined
in the federal Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. (2) DEPARTMENT. The State Department
of Education. (3) FOOD. Any raw, cooked, processed, or prepared edible substance, ice, beverage,
or ingredient used or intended for use in whole or in part for human consumption. (4) SCHOOL.
A public elementary school, middle school, or high school. (b) A local board of education
may allow any school under its jurisdiction to donate surplus, non-expired food to a charitable
organization through an official of the charitable organization who is directly affiliated
with the school, including a teacher, counselor, support staff, or any employee of the school,
or a parent of a student enrolled at the school. The...
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36-21-46
Section 36-21-46 Standards for applicants and appointees for employment as law enforcement
officers. (a) The standards provided in this subsection shall apply to applicants and appointees
as law enforcement officers. No city, town, county, sheriff, constable, or other employer
shall employ any applicant unless the person submits to the appointing authority an application
for employment verified by affidavit of the applicant and showing compliance with the following
qualifications: (1) AGE. The applicant shall be not less than 19 years of age at the time
of appointment. (2) EDUCATION. The applicant shall be a graduate of a high school accredited
with or approved by the State Department of Education or shall be the holder of a certificate
of high school equivalency issued by general educational development. (3) TRAINING. Prior
to certification, the applicant shall complete the required course of training established
by the commission. An applicant may be provisionally appointed for a...
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39-6-1
Section 39-6-1 Radioactive fallout protection to be incorporated in planning and construction
of certain state funded public buildings or structures; powers and duties of State Building
Commission as to certification of planning or construction of same and granting of exemptions
from provisions of section. (a) Wherever used in this section, unless a different meaning
clearly appears in the context, the following terms shall be given the following respective
interpretations: (1) PUBLIC BUILDING or STRUCTURE. All buildings constructed for any department,
agency, board, commission, council or authority of the State of Alabama, including public
school buildings or structures and public buildings or structures of universities and colleges,
including any additions to existing buildings or structures. (2) STATE BUILDING COMMISSION.
The building commission of 1945. (3) RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT PROTECTION. The minimum space and
fallout protection criteria recommended by the Office of Civil Defense,...
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16-1-18.1
Section 16-1-18.1 Accumulation of sick leave. (a) Definitions. When used in this section, the
following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively: (1) EMPLOYEE. Any person
employed full time as provided by law by those employers enumerated in this section; and adult
bus drivers. (2) EMPLOYER. All public city and county boards of education; the Board of Trustees
of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the Alabama Youth Services Department District
Board in its capacity as the Board of Education for the Youth Services Department District;
the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts; the Board of Trustees of the Alabama
High School of Mathematics and Science; for purposes of subsection (c) only, the Alabama State
Senate, the Lieutenant Governor, the Office of the Senate President Pro Tempore, the Speaker
of the House of Representatives, the Alabama House of Representatives, the Legislative Reference
Service; any organization participating in the Teachers'...
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16-23A-1
Section 16-23A-1 Enactment; contents. The Interstate Agreement on Qualifications of Educational
Personnel is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdiction legally joining
therein, in the form substantially as follows: Article I. Purpose, Findings, and Policy. 1.
The states party to this agreement, desiring by common action to improve their respective
school systems by utilizing the teacher or other professional educational person wherever
educated, declare that it is the policy of each of them, on the basis of cooperation with
one another, to take advantage of the preparation and experience of such persons wherever
gained, thereby serving the best interests of society, of education, and of the teaching profession.
It is the purpose of this agreement to provide for the development and execution of such programs
of cooperation as will facilitate the movement of teachers and other professional educational
personnel among the states party to it, and to authorize specific...
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16-6F-7
Section 16-6F-7 Applicant proposals; conversion to public charter school; terms of charters;
contracts. (a) Request for proposals. (1) To solicit, encourage, and guide the development
of quality public charter school applications, every local school board, in its role as public
charter school authorizer, shall issue and broadly publicize a request for proposals for public
charter school applications by July 17, 2015, and by November 1 in each subsequent year. The
content and dissemination of the request for proposals shall be consistent with the purposes
and requirements of this act. (2) Public charter school applicants may submit a proposal for
a particular public charter school to no more than one local school board at a time. (3) The
department shall annually establish and disseminate a statewide timeline for charter approval
or denial decisions, which shall apply to all authorizers in the state. (4) Each local school
board's request for proposals shall present the board's strategic...
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