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16-39-2
Section 16-39-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following words, terms, and
phrases shall have the following respective interpretations: (1) EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN. Persons
between the ages of six and 21 years who have been certified under regulations of the State
Board of Education by a specialist as being unsuited for enrollment in regular classes of
the public schools or who are unable to be educated or trained adequately in the regular programs
including, but not limited to: the mildly and moderately to severely retarded, and also the
profoundly retarded; the speech impaired; the hearing impaired, deaf, and partially hearing;
the blind and vision impaired; the crippled and those having other physical handicaps not
otherwise specifically mentioned herein; the emotionally conflicted; those with special learning
disabilities; the multiple handicapped; and the intellectually gifted. (2) HEREIN, HEREBY,
HEREUNDER, HEREOF. Refer to this chapter as an entirety and not solely...
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16-39-8
Section 16-39-8 Classification of child; placement; record of case history. No child shall
be given special services under the terms of this chapter as an exceptional child until he
is properly classified as an exceptional child; provided, that the child's parent or guardian
shall be informed of the reasons for such classification. A copy of the report certifying
to the child's type of exceptionality shall be kept on file in the office of the principal
of the school in which the child is enrolled and at such other places as may be prescribed
by regulations of the State Board of Education. In providing for the instruction of exceptional
children, the school boards shall utilize regular school facilities and adapt them to the
needs of exceptional children, except as otherwise provided herein. No exceptional child shall
be segregated and taught apart from other nonexceptional children until a careful study of
the child's case has been made and evidence obtained which indicates that such...
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16-39-6
Section 16-39-6 School board plans. During the fifth year of implementation of the incremental
five-year plan referred to above, each school board shall submit a long-range plan for providing
appropriate instruction and special services for exceptional children and shall submit said
long-range plan to the State Board of Education for its review and approval or disapproval.
Such plan, unless thereafter modified with approval of the State Board of Education, shall
be adhered to by the school board. Said long-range plans, and all modifications thereof, shall
be resubmitted to the State Board of Education for its review and approval or disapproval
at such intervals as may be established by the said state board in regulations, but not in
any event less often than once every seven years or more often than once every two years.
Disapproval of a plan or any amendments thereto shall be only because of failure of the plan
to meet minimum standards set out in regulations of the state board...
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16-39-4
Section 16-39-4 Implementation of program. Within 120 days after July 22, 1971, each school
board in the State of Alabama shall take a careful and thorough survey of persons who (if
thereafter certified by a specialist) would probably qualify as exceptional children residing
in its school district, which survey shall show the name, age, sex and type of exceptionality
of each exceptional child found by it. All such data descriptive of an individual person (as
contrasted with compilations made therefrom which do not reveal information about specific
individuals) shall be maintained in strict confidence and shall not be made available to anyone
except to the survey-takers (in connection with those individuals who are reported by them),
the appropriate superintendent and his staff, the appropriate school principal, the individual
child's parent or guardian and such other persons as may be designated in regulations adopted
by the State Board of Education and under such conditions as may be...
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16-39-5
Section 16-39-5 Responsibilities of State Board of Education. The State Board of Education
shall adopt regulations covering: (1) The qualifications of specialists for each type of exceptionality
and standards for certification of exceptional children; (2) Minimum standards of instruction
and special services to be provided for each type of exceptionality at each age or grade level;
(3) Reasonable qualifications for teachers, instructors, therapists and other personnel needed
to work with exceptional children; (4) Guidelines for suitable five-year incremental plans
for implementation of the program set forth in this chapter for various types of typical situations
likely to be encountered by school boards in the State of Alabama; and (5) Such other rules
and regulations as may be necessary or appropriate for carrying out the purposes of this chapter.
Said regulations may be amended from time to time, said amended regulations to be effective
90 days after written notice of said amendments...
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16-44B-1
Section 16-44B-1 Compact. ARTICLE I PURPOSE It is the purpose of this compact to remove barriers
to education success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and
deployment of their parents by: A. Facilitating the timely enrollment of children of military
families and ensuring that they are not placed at a disadvantage due to difficulty in the
transfer of education records from the previous school district(s) or variations in entrance/age
requirements. B. Facilitating the student placement process through which children of military
families are not disadvantaged by variations in attendance requirements, scheduling, sequencing,
grading, course content or assessment. C. Facilitating the qualification and eligibility for
enrollment, educational programs, and participation in extracurricular academic, athletic,
and social activities. D. Facilitating the on-time graduation of children of military families.
E. Providing for the promulgation and enforcement of...
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16-39-3
Section 16-39-3 Education required for exceptional children; source of funds. Each school board
shall provide not less than 12 consecutive years of appropriate instruction and special services
for exceptional children, beginning with those six years of age, in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter. Such public school instruction and special services shall be made available
at public expense for each school year to exceptional children as provided herein. The funds
for such instruction and special services shall be derived from state, county, municipal,
district, federal or other sources or combinations of sources. Each school board shall set
aside from its revenues from all such sources such amounts as are needed to carry out the
provisions of this chapter, if such funds are available without impairment of regular classes
and services provided for nonexceptional children. If sufficient funds are not available to
a school board to provide fully for all the provisions of this...
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16-39-9
Section 16-39-9 Reports on exceptional children. The Alabama Boys Industrial School, Alabama
State Training School for Girls, Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, Alabama state Department
of Mental Health, State Crippled Children's Service, the State Board of Health and the Department
of Human Resources shall direct their field workers to review their case records on or before
March 31 of each year and to report to the superintendent of each school board the names and
other pertinent information for all persons who might, if certified by a specialist, be exceptional
children in the school district and whose conditions in their opinion might require special
education services. (Acts 1971, No. 106, p. 373, ยง9.)...
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16-13-231
Section 16-13-231 Purposes and plan of apportionment. (a) In addition to all other appropriations
and apportionments of public school money now provided by law and made available for public
schools there shall be apportioned and paid to local boards of education from the Foundation
Program Fund, the amounts to be determined as hereinafter provided and in accordance with
regulations of the State Board of Education. This Foundation Program Fund shall be used principally:
(1) To aid in providing at least a 180 full instructional day minimum school term, or the
hourly equivalent thereof, except as otherwise provided in paragraph c. of subdivision (1)
of subsection (b); and, (2) To assist in the promotion of educational opportunity for all
children in the public schools. (b) The following requirements and procedures, supplemented
when necessary by regulations of the State Board of Education, shall govern the apportionment
of the fund: (1) REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FUND. In order for...
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41-15B-2.2
Section 41-15B-2.2 Allocation of trust fund revenues. (a) For each fiscal year, beginning October
1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues and upon
appropriation by the Legislature, an amount of up to and including two hundred twenty-five
thousand dollars ($225,000), or equivalent percentage of the total fund, shall be designated
for the administration of the fund by the council and the Commissioner of Children's Affairs.
(b) For the each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First
Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues, the remainder of the Children First Trust Fund, in
the amounts provided for in Section 41-15B-2.1, shall be allocated as follows: (1) Ten percent
of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Public Health for distribution to one
or more of the following: a. The Children's Health Insurance Program. b. Programs for tobacco
control among children with the purpose being to reduce the consumption...
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