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16-36-71
Section 16-36-71 Qualified depository for textbooks. (a) A qualified depository of textbooks
shall be responsible for receiving textbook orders from the State Board of Education or local
boards of education, storing sufficient quantities of textbooks, and distributing textbooks
in accordance with this article. (b) A qualified depository shall do all of the following:
(1) Have sufficient warehouse space to maintain sufficient stock. (2) Be located within the
state. (3) Have the financial capacity to provide steady and continuous operations upon which
the State Board of Education and local boards of education can rely. The financial capacity
may be maintained in a qualified depository or in another member of the same Alabama affiliated
group, as that term is defined in Section 40-18-39. (c) For the services provided herein,
a qualified depository may not charge the State Board of Education or a local board of education,
but rather shall sell the textbooks in accordance with the prices...
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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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16-1-41.1
Section 16-1-41.1 School board governance improvement. (a) This section shall be known and
may be cited as the School Board Governance Improvement Act of 2012. (b) The Legislature finds
and declares all of the following: (1) That the purpose of this section is to enhance the
effectiveness of public education governance in Alabama through the establishment of training
requirements, boardsmanship standards, and accountability measures that are designed to promote
informed deliberations and decisions, to revise the qualifications for serving as a member
of a local board of education, to provide for a code of conduct for each member of a local
board of education in order to better ensure that any decision or action of a local board
of education is based on the interests of students or the system, and to foster the development
and implementation of organizational practices that are designed to promote broad support
of the public schools. (2) A local board of education is the legally...
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16-36-67
Section 16-36-67 Special textbooks. (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Education
to negotiate with publishers of textbooks or authors of textbooks for the preparation and
publication, or either, of special textbooks for use in the public schools of the state. If
anyone undertakes the preparation of a special textbook for the purpose of making the textbook
more suitable and desirable for use in the public schools of the state, the State Superintendent
of Education shall submit the specially prepared textbook or specially arranged textbook to
the State Textbook Committee for its findings and ratings as to its desirability and suitability
for the purposes offered and these findings and ratings shall be certified to the State Board
of Education for its consideration. (b) If the State Board of Education is unable to obtain
what it considers a desirable contract for a special textbook on any particular subject with
publishers whose books have been given its approval, the State...
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16-61C-4
Section 16-61C-4 Rules and regulations; schedule for expansion of program; advisory committee.
(a) The State Board of Education may promulgate necessary rules and regulations for the effective
administration of the Alabama Science in Motion Program, in accordance with applicable state
laws. Upon the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Education the State Board of
Education shall adopt a flexible schedule, of not more than five years, that will provide
for the complete statewide expansion of the Alabama Science in Motion Program to eleven networks,
one network to operate within the service region of each of the eleven existing Alabama Regional
Inservice Centers. ASIM Program expansion shall be completed when each network shall operate
one van for each of the three core sciences, namely biology, chemistry and physics. The schedule
shall consist of three or more phases; provided, that all effort shall be made to ensure that
no geographic region of the state shall be unduly...
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16-35-1
Section 16-35-1 Composition; appointment, qualifications and terms of members. The State Board
of Education shall appoint a courses of study committee as set forth below for the purposes
and functions as hereinafter provided. The State Courses of Study Committee shall consist
of 28 members to be selected as follows: (1) One elementary teacher (grades K through six)
and one secondary teacher (grades seven through 12) from each of the seven congressional districts
who are teaching in the course of study areas to be revised during their terms of office;
(2) Four members from the state at-large actively engaged in a supervisory or administrative
capacity in the field of education and who are knowledgeable or who have had previous teaching
experience in the course of study areas to be revised during their term of office; (3) Three
members who are employees of state institutions of higher learning and who are specialists
in the course of study areas to be revised during their terms of...
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16-13A-5
Section 16-13A-5 Supervision, fiduciary responsibility of chief school financial officer; duties.
(a) The chief school financial officer shall work under the direct supervision of the local
superintendent of education but shall have a fiduciary responsibility to the local board of
education. (b) The chief school financial officer shall perform each of the following duties:
(1) Verify the receipt of all funds to which the local board of education may be entitled
by law or which may come into its possession for public school purposes. (2) Verify the payment
of such funds, such payments to occur only on written order of the local superintendent of
education. (3) Keep an accurate record of all receipts and expenditures, and provide such
information to the local superintendent and the local board. (4) Make reports as may be required
by law, by the local board of education, or by rules and regulations of the State Board of
Education. (5) Personally notify, in writing, each board member and...
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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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16-13-144
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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45-42-102
Section 45-42-102 Substitution of books or texts for state-approved or state-adopted textbooks.
In Limestone County, the county board of education, upon recommendation of the county superintendent
of education, may substitute other books or texts for use in the county schools under its
jurisdiction for the textbooks on the list of state-approved or state-adopted textbooks prescribed
by the State Board of Education. Whenever books or texts are substituted for the state-approved
or state-adopted textbooks, the books or texts shall be used by the teachers in the county
school system in teaching any course or courses for which a substitution has been made. The
textbook shall be paid for with state funds in the same manner as textbooks are paid for in
other local school systems which have substituted textbooks for local use. (Act 97-862, p.
202, ยง 1.)...
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