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16-1-36
Section 16-1-36 Tutoring programs for students accessed below average SAT scores. (a) Beginning
in the 2000-2001 school year, any public school student in this state who is required by statute
or regulation of the State Department of Education to be tested or assessed by Stanford Achievement
Test (SAT) or any other assessment used by the school system who scores or is assessed at
a range of one grade below any subject or subjects, or falls below the average of the school
system assessment shall be provided tutoring programs for reading skills and other subjects
by the department. The tutoring program shall be provided within the school system of the
student. Tutoring programs shall continue two additional times for any student while attending
the school for any subject or subjects until the student scores or is assessed in the average
range or above for each subject being tutored, however, the school system may continue the
tutoring sessions, and the program shall remain for all other...
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16-1-43
Section 16-1-43 Waiver of undergraduate tuition and fees for Purple Heart recipients. (a) For
purposes of this section, a public institution of higher education includes public two-year
and four-year institutions of higher education and postsecondary technical colleges, community
colleges, and junior colleges located in the state. (b) A public institution of higher education
may waive undergraduate tuition and fees for each veteran who is the recipient of the Purple
Heart and who satisfies all of the following: (1) Is enrolled as a full-time, part-time, or
summer school student in an undergraduate program that culminates in a degree or certificate.
(2) Is currently, and was at the time of the military action that resulted in the awarding
of the Purple Heart, a resident of this state. (3) Submits to the public institution of higher
education the DD-214 form issued at the time of separation from service as documentation that
he or she has received the Purple Heart. (c) The waiver...
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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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16-28B-8
Section 16-28B-8 Suicide prevention programs, training, and policies; advisory committee; liability.
(a) To the extent that the Legislature shall appropriate funds, or to the extent that any
local board may provide funds from other sources, each school system shall implement the following
standards and policies for programs in an effort to prevent student suicide: (1) Foster individual,
family, and group counseling services related to suicide prevention. (2) Make referral, crisis
intervention, and other related information available for students, parents, and school personnel.
(3) Foster training for school personnel who are responsible for counseling and supervising
students. (4) Increase student awareness of the relationship between drug and alcohol use
and suicide. (5) Educate students in recognizing signs of suicidal tendencies and other facts
and warning signs of suicide. (6) Inform students of available community suicide prevention
services. (7) Promote cooperative efforts...
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16-5-10
Section 16-5-10 Additional powers and duties of commission. The commission shall exercise the
following powers and duties in addition to those otherwise specified in this article: (1)
To cause to be made such surveys and evaluations of higher education as are believed necessary
for the purpose of providing appropriate information to carry out its powers and duties. (2)
To recommend to the Legislature of Alabama the enactment of such legislation as it deems necessary
or desirable to insure the highest quality of higher education in this state taking into consideration
the orderly development and maintenance of the state system of public higher education to
meet trends in population and the change in social and technical requirements of the economy.
(3) To advise and counsel the Governor, at his request, regarding any area of, or matter pertaining
to, postsecondary education. (4) To establish definitions of a junior college, a community
college, a technical college or institute, a senior...
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16-1-24.3
Section 16-1-24.3 Local boards of education to implement policies requiring expulsion of students
who possess firearms in school areas. (a) All city and county boards of education shall develop
and implement local policies and procedures requiring the expulsion of students, for a period
of one year, who are determined to have brought to school or have in their possession a firearm
in a school building, on school grounds, on school buses, or at other school-sponsored functions.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, city and county boards of education and the local superintendent
of education of each board may modify the expulsion requirement for a student on a case-by-case
basis. Students who are expelled for violation of this section shall not be allowed to attend
regular school classes in any public school in the state during the expulsion period. Students
who are expelled from schools for firearm possession may be permitted to attend alternative
schools designed to provide education...
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16-33B-4
Section 16-33B-4 Basic powers and duties of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education for
the Alabama Guaranteed Student Loan Program. (a) Basic powers. The Alabama Commission on Higher
Education (ACHE) is authorized to administer the Alabama Guaranteed Student Loan Program in
accordance with the Federal Student Loan Law, and empowered to promulgate such rules, regulations,
policies, and procedures as may be reasonable and proper in order to carry out the provisions
and purposes of this chapter. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the ACHE is
authorized and empowered: (1) To establish regulations deemed necessary to comply with federal
regulations and legislation relative to guaranteed student loans and the Federal Student Loan
Law. (2) To establish eligibility criteria for participating postsecondary educational institutions.
(3) To establish reasonable eligibility criteria for the initial and continuing participation
of approved lenders in the student loan program. (4)...
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16-56-1
Section 16-56-1 Body corporate; rights, duties, property, etc. of Troy University. (a)(1) The
Governor, by virtue of the office and the trustees appointed from designated areas of the
state, pursuant to Section 16-56-3, and their successors in office, shall constitute a body
corporate under the name of Troy University, or by any name the board of trustees may from
time to time designate as successor. The name Troy University shall refer to each campus.
(2) All rights, duties, property, real or personal, and all other effects existing in the
name of Troy State University, the Troy State University System, or in any other name by which
the institution has been known, shall continue in the name of Troy University. Any reference
to Troy State University, the Troy State University System, or any other name by which the
institution has been known, in any existing law, contract, or other instrument shall constitute
a reference to Troy University. All acts of Troy State University lawfully...
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22-10A-2
Section 22-10A-2 Diagnostic facilities, genetic counseling and prenatal testing for genetic
disorders at University of Alabama in Birmingham and University of South Alabama. (a) The
University of Alabama in Birmingham, through its laboratory of medical genetics, and the University
of South Alabama shall expand their respective medical genetics programs to provide diagnostic
facilities, genetic counseling and prenatal testing for genetic disorders. (b) Each shall:
(1) Develop an education program designed to educate physicians and the public concerning
genetic disorders and the availability of this program. (2) Assure that genetic counseling
is available to those Alabama families who need it. This will include those families who have
a member with a birth defect, mental retardation, or other handicapping disorder due to genetic
factors as well as families identified by screening to be at increased risk for having a child
with one of these problems. (3) Formulate a graduated fee...
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22-57-20
Section 22-57-20 Establishment of regional autism centers; constituency board; rules and regulations.
(a)(1) There is established in determined geographic regions of the state one or more autism
centers whose purpose is to provide nonresidential resource and training services for persons
of all ages and of all levels of intellectual functioning who have any of the following: a.
Autism. b. A pervasive developmental disorder that is not otherwise specified. c. As determined
by the Alabama Interagency Autism Coordinating Council, other disability populations which
may receive benefit from the services and activities of the regional centers. (2) Each center
shall be operationally and fiscally independent, and provide evidence-based services within
its geographical region of the state. Service delivery shall be consistent for all centers.
Each center shall coordinate services within and between state and local agencies and school
districts but may not duplicate services provided by those...
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