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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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16-6F-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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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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16-13-140
Section 16-13-140 Established for county and city school systems; form of annual budget required;
public hearings required. (a) There shall be a budget system for the public schools of each
county and city for the purpose of promoting economy and efficiency in the finances of the
public schools. (b) The State Department of Education shall prepare proposed annual budget
forms for each local board of education and shall make the forms available to each local superintendent
of education by August 1 of the first year of each legislative quadrennium and by July 1 of
each subsequent year of each legislative quadrennium for use with public hearings. The forms
shall be clear, uniform, and concise in order to promote understanding by the general public
of the budget process. (c) Each local board of education shall hold at least two open public
hearings pertaining to its proposed annual budget. Copies of the proposed budget shall be
provided to the public at each hearing on forms provided by the...
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16-24B-2
Section 16-24B-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. The chief administrative officer of the employing board,
including the superintendent of any public county or city school system, the President of
the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, and the Superintendent of the Department of Youth
Services School District. (2) CONTRACT PRINCIPAL. Includes only those persons hired on or
after July 1, 2000, and certified for the position of principal as prescribed by the State
Board of Education and who are employed by an employing board as the chief administrator of
a school, including a vocational center. (3) CONTRACT YEAR. Period of contract principal's
employment up to 12 months mutually agreed upon by the contract principal and employing board.
(4) DAY. A calendar day. In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by this chapter,
the day of the act or event from which the designated period of...
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16-4-4
Section 16-4-4 Duties generally. The State Superintendent of Education shall explain the true
intent and meaning of the school laws and of the rules and regulations of the State Board
of Education. He shall decide, without expense to the parties concerned, all controversies
and disputes involving the proper administration of the public school system. The State Superintendent
of Education shall enforce all the provisions of this title and the rules and regulations
of the State Board of Education. He shall file charges with the State Board of Education or
other controlling authority and shall recommend for removal or institute proceedings for the
removal of any person appointed under the provisions of this title for immorality, misconduct
in office, insubordination, incompetency or willful neglect of duty. (School Code 1927, §68;
Code 1940, T. 52, §44.)...
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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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16-22-16
Section 16-22-16 Registered nurses required. (a) The State Department of Education and the
Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind shall require the employment of school nurses in each
local school system. (b) There shall not be greater than five licensed practical nurses to
one registered nurse within each school system. However, based upon individual circumstances,
including specific medical needs and tasks which must be performed by a registered nurse as
set forth in the Nurse Practice Act and the Administrative Code rules of the Alabama Board
of Nursing, there may be a lower registered nurse to licensed practical nurse ratio within
each school system. (c) The allotment of school nurses shall be distributed so that each school
system shall receive one registered nurse and an additional nurse or nurses or fraction of
a nursing allocation based upon the average daily membership during the first 20 scholastic
days after Labor Day of the preceding school year. (d) Each local school...
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16-25-1
Section 16-25-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter the following terms, unless a
different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following respective
meanings: (1) RETIREMENT SYSTEM. The Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama as defined in
Section 16-25-2. (2) PUBLIC SCHOOL. Any day school conducted within the state under the authority
and supervision of a duly elected or appointed county or city board of education and any educational
institution supported by and under the control of the state or any private nondenominational
school operated nonprofit for the education of children of school age residing within a district
where no public school is available for the children. (3) TEACHER. Any teacher, principal,
superintendent, supervisor, college professor, administrative officer, or clerk employed in
any public school or public college within the state or employed in any private nondenominational
school operated nonprofit for the education of children of...
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