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16-16-15
Section 16-16-15 Incentive fund and council. (a) There is hereby created the Alabama Public
School and College Education Incentive Fund (Incentive Fund). Fifty-five million dollars ($55,000,000)
from the first series of bonds issued pursuant to Act 2007-415 shall be deposited into the
Incentive Fund. (b) There is hereby created the Alabama Public School and College Education
Incentive Fund Council. The council shall be made up of the State Superintendent of Education;
the Director of Finance; one member, who shall not be an elected official, appointed by the
Governor; the Lieutenant Governor; the Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation-Education
Committee; and the Chair of the House Education Appropriations Committee. The Lieutenant Governor
and legislative members of the council shall be entitled to their regular per diem when attending
council meetings. The council created by this section shall allocate capital expenditures
from the Incentive Fund. Authorized expenditures from the...
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16-22-4.1
Section 16-22-4.1 Education employee liability insurance; self-insurance. (a) For the purposes
of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CERTIFICATED PERSONNEL.
Full-time teachers, principals, and other education employees employed by a local board of
education and required to hold a certificate issued by the State Superintendent of Education.
(2) LOCAL BOARD OF EDUCATION. A city or county board of education, the Board of Trustees of
the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Alabama Youth Services Board in its capacity
as the Board of Education for the Youth Services School District, the Board of Directors of
the Alabama School of Fine Arts, and the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Mathematics
and Science. (3) STUDENT TEACHER. A college or university student in an education degree program
who, as part of the degree program, is assigned to teach in a local public school classroom,
is providing instruction to students, and is being...
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16-33-4
Section 16-33-4 Certain children may attend state institutions or trade schools without payment
of fees or tuition; provision of textbooks. (a) Any child in a family where the head of the
household is blind and the family income is not greater than 1.3 times the current poverty
income level, as determined by federal poverty guidelines based upon the number of family
members, may, without paying any instructional fees or tuition whatsoever, do either of the
following: (1) Attend any Alabama state institution of higher learning, college, or university
for a period of four standard academic years of nine months each, not to exceed 36 months
total. (2) Take a prescribed course in any Alabama state trade school or technical college,
for the length of the prescribed course of study of his or her choosing. (b) Training under
this section shall: (1) Be initiated within two years after high school graduation, but in
no case after the twenty-third birthday of the child. (2) Be completed within...
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16-5-31
Section 16-5-31 Duties. The steering committee shall perform each of the following duties:
(1) Seek methods to improve participation in two-year and four-year postsecondary education.
(2) Seek methods to improve high school retention. (3) Encourage the State Board of Education
and local boards of education to adopt courses of study that prepare students for two-year
and four-year technical, vocational, and academic programs. (4) Organize and supervise local
groups to perform each of the following functions: a. Encourage participation in two-year
and four-year postsecondary education. b. Improve high school retention. c. Encourage the
adoption by the local board of education of two-year and four-year postsecondary education
preparatory courses of study. d. Provide tutorial, counseling, and other educational assistance
to local junior and senior high school students. (5) Advise the Alabama Commission on Higher
Education regarding the operation of the Postsecondary Education Communication...
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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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16-16-14.2
Section 16-16-14.2 Legislative intent. Act 2010-731 is adopted by the Legislature of the State
of Alabama to amend certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975 and certain prior acts
of the Legislature of Alabama and to make other provisions in a manner intended to permit
the Alabama Public School and College Authority (the authority) to issue bonds, notes, or
other debt obligations under the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009 or other governmental program providing cost-savings or conditions acceptable to the
authority. The issuance of such bonds, notes, or other debt obligations by the authority for
the benefit of local boards of education in the state will provide financing for such local
boards on favorable terms and will thereby serve an essential need of the citizens of the
state. Bonds of the authority in the form of bonds, notes, or other debt obligations under
the provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or other...
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16-23-3
Section 16-23-3 Provisional certificates. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the
State of Alabama shall modify its policies relative to the certification of teachers to permit
an expanded alternative certification program for prospective teachers for grades six through
12. In addition to certificates issued pursuant to this chapter to individuals graduating
from approved teacher education programs, the State Board of Education shall adopt policies,
procedures, rules, regulations, or standards authorizing an alternative certificate to be
issued by the State Superintendent of Education to an individual, regardless of whether the
individual is a graduate of an approved teacher education program, where the applicant shall:
(1) Hold an earned bachelor's or higher degree from a regionally accredited institution of
higher education. (2) Submit the required application forms and fees and, when required, a
separate fingerprint fee, along with fingerprints and release forms. (3) Be...
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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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16-6F-11
Section 16-6F-11 Public School and College Authority funding; local school system facilities
and land. (a) Access to Alabama Public School and College Authority (PSCA) funds. (1) Public
charter schools shall have the same rights and access to PSCA funding opportunities as non-charter
public schools. (2) The PSCA and the department shall adopt and maintain a policy to ensure
that public charter schools receive access to equitable facilities funding. (b) Access to
local school system facilities and land. (1) A public charter school shall have a right of
first refusal to purchase or lease at or below fair market value a closed or unused public
school facility or property located in a school system from which it draws its students if
the school system decides to sell or lease the public school facility or property. (2) Unused
facility means a school building or other local board of education owned building that is
or could be appropriate for school use, in which more than 60 percent of the...
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34-24-70
Section 34-24-70 Qualifications of applicants. (a) The following constitute the requirements
for the issuance of a certificate of qualification for a license to practice medicine in this
state: (1) MEDICAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENT. All applicants for a certificate of qualification
shall present a diploma or evidence of graduation from any of the following institutions:
a. A college of medicine or school of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical
Education of the American Medical Association. b. A college of osteopathy accredited by the
American Osteopathic Association. c. A college of medicine or school of medicine not accredited
by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education which is approved by the Board of Medical Examiners.
The board may, within its discretion, withhold approval of any college of medicine not designated
in either a., or b., above which: 1. Has had its accreditation withdrawn by a national or
regional accreditation organization; or 2. Has had its...
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