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16-28-2.1
Section 16-28-2.1 Adoption of standards for mandatory attendance policy; parents held accountable;
enforcement. The Legislature finds that mandatory attendance policies for schools differ from
school system to school system throughout the State of Alabama. The State Board of Education
shall adopt standards for a mandatory and enforceable attendance policy for all students in
public schools in the State of Alabama. Parents shall be held accountable in accordance with
Sections 16-28-12 and 16-28-7, for the failure of the child who is of compulsory attendance
age to attend either public, private or church-school. Enforcement of this section shall lie
with the local board of education and the juvenile court system. (Acts 1991, No. 91-323, p.
602, §15.)...
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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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16-1-39
Section 16-1-39 Self-administration of medications by student. (a) Commencing with the 2007-2008
scholastic year, each local board of education and the governing body of each nonpublic school
in the state shall permit the self-administration of medications by a student for chronic
conditions if conducted in compliance with the State Department of Education and State Board
of Nursing Medication Curriculum, as may be amended from time to time by the department and
board. Approved medications may be self-administered if the parent or legal guardian of the
student provides all of the information outlined in the medication curriculum, including,
but not limited to, all of the following: (1) Written and signed authorization for the self-administration
to the chief executive officer of the school. (2) Written and signed acknowledgement that
the school shall incur no liability and that the parent or legal guardian shall indemnify
and hold harmless the school and the employees and agents of the...
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16-13-282
Section 16-13-282 Purpose of article. (a) It is the goal of the Governor and the Legislature
to raise Alabama's non-salaried expenditures per public school student to the national average
in conjunction with this commitment to teachers' salaries. (b) It is the goal of the Governor
and the Legislature to continue and enhance Alabama's financial support for public institutions
of higher education, support personnel in public schools and retirees in the Teachers' Retirement
System in conjunction with this commitment to teachers' salaries and non-salaried expenditures
per student. (Act 2000-732, p. 1583, §§3, 4.)...
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16-6G-4
Section 16-6G-4 Use of funds in support of Alabama Reading Initiative; literacy and reading
specialists. (a) Funds appropriated by the Legislature in support of the Alabama Reading Initiative
shall be allocated to support the following: (1) Local education agencies to support local
reading specialists. (2) The Alabama Summer Achievement Program. (3) Regional literacy specialists.
(4) Preservice and inservice teacher professional learning activities for elementary school
teachers in reading. (5) Curricula to support student interventions. (6) State administration.
(b) Funds dedicated to the Alabama Reading Initiative shall be expended on local and regional
reading specialists, professional learning activities, and administrative activities that
support all of the following activities for kindergarten through third grade students in public
K-12 schools; continued funding shall be contingent on measurable performance growth, as determined
by the task force established under subsection (a)...
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16-1-20.3
Section 16-1-20.3 Student-initiated voluntary prayer. (a) The legislative intent and purpose
for this section is to protect the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to
the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution of Alabama of
1901, to define for the citizens of Alabama the rights and privileges that are accorded them
on public school and other public property and at school-related events, and to provide guidance
to public school officials on the rights and requirements of law they must apply. Further,
the intent and purpose of the Legislature is to properly accommodate the free exercise of
religious rights of its student citizens in the public schools and at public school events
as mandated by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and the judicial interpretations
thereof as given by the United States Supreme Court. (b) On public school, other public, or
other property, non-sectarian, non-proselytizing student-initiated...
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16-1-50
Section 16-1-50 Possession and use of over-the-counter sunscreen by students. (a) Any student
in a public school under the jurisdiction of a local board of education or in a nonpublic
school may possess and apply federal Food and Drug Administration regulated over-the-counter
sunscreen at school and at school-based events notwithstanding any other provision of law,
including any rule of the State Board of Education or the State Board of Nursing. (b) No rule
of the State Board of Education or the State Board of Nursing shall apply to the possession
or use of federal Food and Drug Administration regulated over-the-counter sunscreen by students
at a public or nonpublic school. (c) Any student, parent, or guardian requesting a school
board employee to apply sunscreen to a student shall present to the nurse a Parent Prescriber
Authorization Form (PPA) containing a parent or guardian signature. A physician signature
or physician order shall not be required. (Act 2017-278, §1.)...
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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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16-22-11
Section 16-22-11 Cost-of-living increase for certain public education employees; salary schedules
for two-year postsecondary institutions; miscellaneous pay provisions. (a) The State Budget
Officer shall allocate to the State Board of Education, the Board of Trustees of the Alabama
Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Board of Youth Services Department District, the Alabama
School of Fine Arts, and the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, for disbursement to
the employees thereof funds based on the following criteria. It is not the intent of the Legislature
to make an appropriation in this section. (1) KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 12 (K-12). An eight
and one-half percent salary increase shall be given to each teacher employed in all public
school programs for the fiscal year 1994-95 over and above the salary received during the
1993-94 fiscal year. An eight and one-half percent salary increase shall be given to each
public education support worker employed for the fiscal year 1994-95...
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16-6B-1
Section 16-6B-1 Student achievement. (a) The Legislature finds that the people of Alabama desire
two basic things from their public schools: (1) High achievement for students. (2) A safe
and orderly environment in which to learn. (b) The Legislature encourages the State Board
of Education to assist local boards of education in the development of a strong disciplinary
policy and directs the State Board of Education to develop a program to closely monitor student
achievement. (1) The State Board of Education shall require implementation of an assessment
program for the public schools of Alabama. The assessment program may include nationally normed
tests or criterion referenced tests, or both. These tests may be used to assist in the assessment
of student achievement. The State Board of Education may also require the use of other tests
and assessments as the board may deem necessary. (2) In grades 11 and 12, the State Board
of Education shall implement an assessment and remediation...
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