|
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...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/16-61C-4.htm - 2K - Match Info - Similar pages
16-61C-2
Section 16-61C-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature of the State of Alabama hereby finds:
(1) That the Alabama Science in Motion Program (the ASIM Program) of six pilot networks, created
by Act No. 94-673, to augment the science curriculum of the public schools, have demonstrated
efficacy as a model in advancing the state's efforts towards the following goals and directives
of the "Alabama Education Improvement Act of 1991." (2) That by the year 2000, Alabama
students should be among the country's leaders in mathematics and science achievement and
that special attention be given to science in the Alabama Course of Study. (3) That the State
Board of Education provide "a plan for the cooperative development and execution of research,
demonstration, evaluation and dissemination of activities related to the effective use of
technologies in teaching and learning"; and that these activities be carried out in cooperation
with the existing Alabama Regional Inservice Centers and local school...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/16-61C-2.htm - 2K - Match Info - Similar pages
34-14A-20
Section 34-14A-20 Alabama Construction Trade Academy Fund; Alabama Construction Trade Advisory
Council; applications for funding; program guidelines. (a) The Alabama Construction Trade
Academy Fund is established in the State Treasury. The fund shall be comprised of federal,
state, and private funding through direct budgetary funding and grants for the expansion of
construction trade education. To the extent practicable, monies in the fund shall be used
to leverage other forms of funding from private sources. A percentage of matching funds, as
established by the advisory council, must come from private, non-governmental sources. The
board may not use more than 15 percent of the monies in the fund for administrative and operational
costs incurred in the implementation and administration of this section. (b) The board, in
cooperation with public and private sector partners, shall establish a program to provide
funding mechanisms for tool grants, program incentives, supplies, mobile...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/34-14A-20.htm - 7K - Match Info - Similar pages
16-6B-2
Section 16-6B-2 Core curriculum. Every Alabama student shall be given instruction in grades
kindergarten through twelve to prepare him or her to enter the world of work and/or to complete
course work at the postsecondary level. In addition to a comprehensive core curriculum of
academics, each local board of education shall offer a program of vocational/technical education.
(a) The following words and phrases used in this section shall, in the absence of a clear
implication otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations: (1) REQUIRED COURSES.
Courses which are required to be taken by every student enrolled in public schools in the
State of Alabama. (2) ELECTIVE COURSES. Courses which are neither mandatory nor required to
be taken by any student enrolled in public schools in the State of Alabama. (b) The Legislature
finds that students must become more literate in the basic skills needed to earn a living
or to continue their education. The Legislature further finds that the...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/16-6B-2.htm - 9K - Match Info - Similar pages
41-4-412
Section 41-4-412 Alabama Construction Industry Craft Training Program; Craft Training Board.
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish and provide for a coordinated effort
between the construction industry and institutions of higher education and other entities,
including, but not limited to, union training programs, to enhance the availability and quality
of programs which promote construction industry craft training and education, and thereby
enhance the availability and competence of the work force for supporting the industry. (b)
In order to provide for efficient, competent, and resourceful construction industry craft
training programs that will deliver the knowledge and skills necessary for persons to learn
and meet the skill requirements for a craft and career in the construction industry trades
and thereby enhance the development of a quality labor pool to support the construction industry
of this state, there is established within the Division of Construction...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/41-4-412.htm - 7K - Match Info - Similar pages
25-5-293
Section 25-5-293 Duties of secretary; continuing education, accounting; recovery of expenses;
advisory committees; legislative intent regarding reimbursements. (a) The Secretary of the
Department of Labor may prescribe rules and regulations for the purpose of conducting continuing
education seminars for all personnel associated with workers' compensation claims and collect
registration fees in order to cover the related expenditures. The secretary may adopt rules
and regulations setting continuing education standards for workers' compensation claims personnel
employed by insurance companies and self-insured employers and groups. (b) The secretary shall
file annually with the Governor and the presiding officer of each house of the Legislature
a complete and detailed written report accounting for all funds received and disbursed during
the preceding fiscal year. The annual report shall be in the form and reported in the time
provided by law. (c) The secretary shall establish reasonable...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/25-5-293.htm - 11K - Match Info - Similar pages
16-6F-7
Section 16-6F-7 Applicant proposals; conversion to public charter school; terms of charters;
contracts. (a) Request for proposals. (1) To solicit, encourage, and guide the development
of quality public charter school applications, every local school board, in its role as public
charter school authorizer, shall issue and broadly publicize a request for proposals for public
charter school applications by July 17, 2015, and by November 1 in each subsequent year. The
content and dissemination of the request for proposals shall be consistent with the purposes
and requirements of this act. (2) Public charter school applicants may submit a proposal for
a particular public charter school to no more than one local school board at a time. (3) The
department shall annually establish and disseminate a statewide timeline for charter approval
or denial decisions, which shall apply to all authorizers in the state. (4) Each local school
board's request for proposals shall present the board's strategic...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/16-6F-7.htm - 16K - Match Info - Similar pages
16-61C-6
Section 16-61C-6 Superintendent to allocate grant funds; recoupment of replaced state funds.
In the event that in any fiscal year prior to the complete expansion of the ASIM Program,
grant funds are received as funding support for the ASIM Program, the State Superintendent
of Education shall allocate the grant funds in an equitable manner among the several ASIM
Program networks to replace a like amount of state funds. The state superintendent shall also
recoup the replaced state funds previously allocated among the networks and deposit the state
funds to the credit of the Education Technology Fund, to be expended at the recommendation
of the superintendent upon the approval of the State Board of Education for further expansion
of the ASIM Program, according to the approved schedule. In the event that grant funds are
received after the expansion of the ASIM Program is completed, the recouped state funds shall
be deposited to the credit of the Education Technology Fund to be expended at...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/16-61C-6.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages
16-61C-5
Section 16-61C-5 Appointment of director; responsibilities of superintendent. The State Superintendent
of Education may appoint a full-time director for the Science in Motion Program who shall
be responsible for the day-to-day administration, monitoring and coordination of the ASIM
Program. The State Superintendent of Education shall be responsible for the following: (1)
Initiate the preparation of proposals for funding grants from governmental, corporate or private
sources. If, as a requirement for receiving grant funds, the grant-awarding entity requires
the participation of private schools in the Alabama Science in Motion Program, the superintendent
is hereby authorized to include private schools to the extent that the requirement is satisfied.
(2) Establish the ASIM Program standards upon approval of the State Board of Education and
certify that each network annually meets the overall standards of the ASIM Program as a prior
condition for the allocation of the respective shares of...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/16-61C-5.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages
16-61C-3
Section 16-61C-3 Legislative intent - Program to augment science curriculum; administration
of program. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Alabama Science in Motion Program
shall augment the science curriculum of the public schools and be administered such that:
(1) The ASIM Program complement, enhance and facilitate the implementation of the Alabama
Course of Study: Science. (2) The State Superintendent of Education annually makes every effort
practical to expose the ASIM Program to the maximum number of students enrolled in science
coursework, regardless of the students' prior achievement levels in science or other academic
coursework. (3) Each of the core sciences covered under the ASIM Program be standardized among
the several networks, in terms of the scientific equipment that is utilized, the content of
instruction presented in the classroom and in the content and the extent of the staff development
training offered to science teachers. In the development of both the...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/16-61C-3.htm - 2K - Match Info - Similar pages
|