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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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16-13-144
Section 16-13-144 Prohibition and penalty for exceeding budget; waiver of penalty. (a) No local
board of education shall spend or obligate itself to spend more money in any fiscal year than
the estimate of income available to that board of education for that year, plus balances on
hand at the beginning of the fiscal year, which estimate shall be approved by the State Superintendent
of Education, if the excess expenditure or excess obligation to spend results in a deficit
for that fiscal year, except as provided in Section 16-13-145. The estimate of income shall
include estimates of income from revenue receipts from all sources and estimates of nonrevenue
receipts from all sources, but excluding all funds derived from loans other than loans obtained
by the issuance of school warrants authorized by the laws of the state. This section shall
not apply to any fiscal year where there is proration of education funds going to local boards
of education. No funds shall be transferred by any...
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16-13-4
Section 16-13-4 Diversion of funds; payment of debt obligations. (a) It shall be unlawful for
any official in the State of Alabama having the custody of, or in any manner connected with
the handling or having the authority to direct the use of any of the public school funds arising
under the provisions of Sections 257, 258, 259 and 260 of the Constitution of Alabama to knowingly
or intentionally divert or permit to be diverted or to use or permit the use of these funds
or any part thereof for any purpose whatsoever except for the uses and purposes as set out
in these sections of the constitution, and such official violating this section shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars ($500)
nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), and the Attorney General may also institute impeachment
proceedings against such official. (b) Nothing contained in this section shall be so construed
as to affect any appropriation heretofore made...
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16-22A-10
Section 16-22A-10 Confidentiality of information. (a)(1) Any criminal history background information
reports received by the State Department of Education from the Department of Public Safety
shall be confidential, conspicuously marked as confidential, and not further disclosed or
made available for public inspection. (2) Any criminal history background information report
received by a local employing board from the State Department of Education shall be confidential,
conspicuously marked as confidential, and not further disclosed or made available for public
inspection. (b) All criminal history background information reports are specifically excluded
from any requirement of public disclosure as a public record as the Legislature finds these
documents to be sensitive personnel records. (c) Transmittal of any criminal history background
information at any time shall be accomplished in a nontransparent package, sealed, and marked
confidential with instructions to be opened only by the...
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16-27-4
Section 16-27-4 Licensing of drivers. Regulations made pursuant to an order of the board of
education requiring and providing for special training and licensing of drivers of vehicles
used to transport pupils to and from school shall require an applicant for a school bus driver's
license to be the holder of a currently valid regular driver's license and to complete a minimum
of 12 clock-hours of approved instruction in school bus driving and to pass satisfactorily
a written examination and also a driving performance test. The written examination shall be
designed by the State Superintendent of Education with the cooperation of the state Director
of Public Safety and may be given to the applicant either by an employee of the State Department
of Education or a state trooper or other representative of the State Department of Public
Safety as the State Superintendent of Education and the Director of Public Safety agree; but
the driving performance test shall be given by a state trooper or...
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16-6G-7
Section 16-6G-7 Alabama Committee on Grade Level Reading. (a) The State Superintendent of Education
shall establish the Alabama Committee on Grade Level Reading. The committee shall consist
of three members appointed from each State Board of Education district. The Governor, the
Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore
of the Senate shall each appoint one member from each district. The appointing authorities
shall coordinate their appointments so that diversity of gender, race, and geographical areas
is reflective of the makeup of this state. (b) Each member of the committee shall be a parent
or legal guardian of a state K-12 public school student, a practicing teacher, a retired teacher,
or employed in the field of education. (c) On or before June 30, 2020, the committee shall
revise the 2011 Alabama Action Plan for Literacy Birth Through Grade 12 in consultation with
the Campaign for Grade Level Reading group, which shall be...
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16-60-194
Section 16-60-194 Management and control; powers and duties of State Board of Education; schools
to be suitable for veteran training programs; leaves of absence for teachers. (a) The authority
to manage and control the trade schools is vested in the State Board of Education. (b) The
State Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Education,
shall: Make rules and regulations for the government of the trade schools; prescribe the courses
of study to be offered and the conditions for granting certificates and diplomas; appoint
the president of each trade school and, upon the president's recommendations, appoint the
members of the faculty and fix the tenure and salary of each; direct and supervise the use
of legislative appropriations for the use of the trade schools; accept gifts, donations, devises
and bequests of money and real and personal property for the purposes of this chapter; disseminate
information concerning and promote interest in the trade...
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16-6A-2
Section 16-6A-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the
respective meanings ascribed to them by this section: (1) A.C.H.E. The Alabama Commission
on Higher Education. (2) BOARD or BOARD OF EDUCATION. The State Board of Education. (3) COMMISSION.
The Governor's Educational Reform Commission created by this chapter. (4) CRITICAL NEEDS AREAS.
Those curriculum and teaching areas where there is an urgent need for action. These areas
include mathematics, science, computer education and other areas to be identified from time
to time by the State Board of Education. (5) IN-SERVICE EDUCATION. The training of regularly
certified education professionals who hold positions in the public schools of the state. (6)
LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES. County and city boards of education and the school systems over
which these boards of education have authority. (7) PLAN FOR EXCELLENCE. A Plan for Excellence;
Alabama's Public Schools, a report to the Alabama State Board of...
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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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16-27-3
Section 16-27-3 Safety inspections by state school bus inspectors; reporting and remedying
deficiencies; records and reports. (a) Safety inspections provided for in the rules hereinabove
mentioned shall be made by authorized, qualified State Department of Education employees and
shall be made at least once each year and more often when, in the judgment of the State Superintendent
of Education, such inspections should be made. The state Director of Public Safety shall advise
and consult with the State Department of Education relative to the type and manner of inspections
to be made and the scheduling thereof. When a safety check by a state school bus inspector
indicates that a bus does not meet the safety standards set up by the State Board of Education,
the inspector shall immediately report this fact to the local board of education using such
bus. The report shall define the deficiency and prescribe the immediate status of the bus
regarding its use; and any bus found by the inspector...
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