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16-1-38
Section 16-1-38 Financial and education law training for newly elected superintendents of education.
(a)(1) Each person newly elected or appointed as a city or county superintendent of education
shall, prior to assuming office, attend and satisfactorily complete a training program on
school finances and education law. This requirement shall be applicable upon the development
and offering of the training program as provided in this section. (2) The State Superintendent
of Education, based upon reasonable cause, may allow a newly elected or appointed superintendent
to attend and satisfactorily complete the training program after assuming office. (3) Superintendents
serving on May 31, 2001, may attend such training program. (4) The Department of Education,
or its designee, shall provide the training program at no cost. (b)(1) The training program
shall be formulated by a committee comprised of the State Superintendent of Education and
each of the following: a. A representative of the...
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16-1-40
Section 16-1-40 Education Trust Fund proration relief. (a) During fiscal year 2009 and any
fiscal year in which proration is declared by the Governor in an amount equal to or greater
than three percent, local boards of education, with the recommendation of the local superintendent,
may transfer Education Trust Fund line item appropriations including the Public School Fund,
except Public School Fund monies dedicated to a specific capital outlay project or debt service
and except for Alabama Public School and College Authority funds which are allocated for a
specific capital outlay project, between and among appropriated line item categories. No state
funds shall be transferred from funds appropriated for salaries, fringe benefits, or student
materials allocations. (b) Prior to any implementation of the flexibility provisions of this
section, the local board of education shall produce a plan indicating the source and amount
to be transferred from each line item and show that the transfer...
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16-30-4
Section 16-30-4 Presentation of certificate upon initial entrance into school. The boards of
education and the governing authority of each private school shall require each pupil who
is otherwise entitled to admittance to kindergarten or first grade, whichever is applicable,
or any other entrance into an Alabama public or private school, to present a certification
of immunization or testing for the prevention of those communicable diseases designated by
the State Health Officer, except as provided in Section 16-30-3. Provided, however, that any
student presently enrolled in a school in this state, not having been immunized upon initial
entrance to school, is hereby required to present a certification of immunization as described
in this section upon commencement of the next school year. Section 16-30-1 and this section
shall apply only to kindergarten through 12th grade and not to the institutions of higher
learning. (Acts 1973, No. 1269, p. 2113, ยง4; Acts 1979, No. 79-677, p. 1208,...
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16-33A-1
Section 16-33A-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise,
the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) ACHE. The Alabama Commission on Higher Education. (2) ALABAMA RESIDENT. A person who has
been domiciled in the State of Alabama for a period of at least 12 consecutive months immediately
preceding application for a grant under the Alabama Student Grant Program. The ACHE shall
promulgate and enforce regulations further defining and limiting the term domicile so as to
limit the benefits of this legislation to bona fide Alabama citizens, based upon criteria
including residency of parents and guardians, voter registration of students and parents,
driver's license registration, and other facts indicating bona fide citizenship. (3) APPROVED
INSTITUTION. Any independent nonprofit postsecondary institution of higher learning located
in the State of Alabama which is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of...
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16-46A-4
Section 16-46A-4 Legislative Task Force. (a) A legislative task force representing local school
superintendents, local school board members, administrators, teachers, and technology practitioners
is established to review and make recommendations for realigning the funding, structure, and
curriculum of the ACCESS program and to aid in the implementation of this chapter. The task
force shall consist of all of the following: (1) Four members, with two appointed by the Chair
of the Senate Education and Youth Affairs Committee and two appointed by the Chair of the
House of Representatives Education Policy Committee. (2) Two members, with one appointed by
the Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee and one appointed by the
Chair of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Education Committee. (3) Two members
appointed by the Governor. (4) Two members appointed by the State Superintendent of Education.
(5) One representative from each of the following: The Alabama...
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16-60-350
Section 16-60-350 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words shall
have the following meanings: (1) CAREER-TECHNICAL DUAL ENROLLMENT PROGRAM. A program that
allows eligible high school students to enroll in college-level career technical education
courses, as designed by the Chancellor of the Department of Postsecondary Education, that
are offered at Alabama Community College System institutions and allows such enrolled students
to concurrently earn high school and college credit in courses toward a certificate or degree,
or both, and which prepares them to enter the workforce in high skill, high wage, or high
demand occupations. (2) CONTRIBUTION. A donation of cash. (3) ELIGIBLE STUDENT. A high school
student who meets the eligibility requirements and standards as prescribed by State Board
of Education policy to enroll for Career-Technical Dual Enrollment Program courses. (4) QUALIFYING
EDUCATIONAL EXPENSES. Tuition, fees, books, materials, and supplies...
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16-63-3
Section 16-63-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings
respectively ascribed to them unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COMMUNITY
SCHOOLS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. A committee of citizens organized to advise community school coordinators,
administrators, and local boards of education in the involvement of citizens in the educational
process and in the use of public school facilities. (2) COMMUNITY SCHOOLS COORDINATOR. An
employee of a local board of education whose responsibility it is to promote and direct maximum
use of the public schools and public school facilities as centers for community education.
(3) PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITY. Any education facility under the jurisdiction of a local board
of education, whether termed an elementary school, middle school, junior high school, or high
school. (4) BUSINESS/INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS. A closely knit partnership consisting of a business
and a selected Alabama public school. It is sharing...
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16-6B-10
Section 16-6B-10 Budget requirements for Foundation and Vocational/Technical Education Program.
(a) Foundation Program. It is the intent of the Legislature to see that funds allocated for
classroom instructional support actually reach the classroom. To that end, the State Department
of Education shall monitor the flow of funds appropriated for various instructional purposes.
Classroom instructional support shall be defined as those funds appropriated for instructional
supplies, library enhancement, textbooks, technology and professional development. The Legislature
believes that the classroom instructional support funds have a direct impact upon the ability
of classroom teachers to have the resources and assistance necessary to assist them in the
performance of their responsibilities. School budgets for instructional supplies shall be
developed within each school as is required by Section 16-1-30 relating to the adoption of
school board policies. It is the intent of the Legislature...
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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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16-1-33
Section 16-1-33 Written reduction-in-force policy. (a) When used in this section, the following
words shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. 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, and the Board
of Trustees of the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science. (2) EMPLOYEES. Employees
or personnel of the board, except those employees covered under the state's Merit System and
except those employees at the Alabama Industries for the Blind. (3) LAYOFF. An unavoidable
reduction in the work force beyond normal attrition due to decreased student enrollment or
shortage of revenues. (b) Each board shall adopt a written reduction-in-force policy consistent
with Section 16-1-30. The policy shall include, but shall not...
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