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16-6A-4
Section 16-6A-4 Governor's program for improving education. The Governor's program for improving
education shall be implemented subject to sufficient appropriations as provided for herein
or as provided for in any other appropriation legislation for public education in the state.
Such program shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) Establishment of the
Governor's Educational Reform Commission; (2) Development of a comprehensive plan for improving
courses in critical needs areas; (3) Authorization for an emergency source of teachers in
critical needs areas; (4) Provision for a scholarship loan program for undergraduate students
enrolled in critical needs areas; (5) Establishment of a tuition grant program for presently
certified teachers to add critical needs areas; (6) Development of regional in-service education
centers for teachers in critical needs areas; (7) Increase in teacher salaries; (8) Full statewide
kindergarten program; (9) Replacement of school buses; (10)...
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16-6A-9
Section 16-6A-9 Development of plan for improving courses in critical needs areas. (a) The
State Board of Education shall develop and establish a comprehensive plan for improving courses
in science, mathematics, computer education and other critical needs areas. In developing
such plan, the superintendent shall consult with teacher organizations, school personnel,
legislative leaders, the Governor's office, representatives from private industry, public
and private higher education and from the fields of education, mathematics, science and computer
education. Such program shall be divided into three phases with the first phase being introduced
at the beginning of the 1985-1986 school year and another phase to begin each of the following
two years. The entire program should be operative at the end of three years. (b) The comprehensive
plan shall provide a framework for the preparation and approval of programs, provide direction
for program development and shall include the following...
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16-6A-15
Section 16-6A-15 Tuition grant program for certified teachers; limitations on tuition reimbursement;
letter of commitment; withholding records upon failure to satisfy agreement. The Alabama Commission
on Higher Education shall implement a tuition grant program for certified teachers. Tuition
grants in institutions of higher education for adding mathematics, science, computer education
or other critical needs areas to their certificates shall be provided to able teachers certified
in subject areas not designated critical needs areas. The Alabama Commission on Higher Education
shall adopt rules to implement the mathematics, science, computer education or other critical
needs areas tuition reimbursement program. Any full-time regularly certified public school
teacher in Alabama shall be eligible for this program. Tuition reimbursement shall be limited
to courses in mathematics, science, computer education or other critical areas as determined
by the board. Such courses shall be graduate...
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16-6A-3
Section 16-6A-3 Legislative intent. The Legislature finds that a true need exists within the
state for improving education. In furtherance of this goal, a "plan for excellence"
and other reform reports have been submitted to the Legislature and the Governor, including
therein numerous recommendations that we strongly endorse. It is the intent of the Legislature
to promote and support the Governor's recommended program for improving education. It is further
the intent of the Legislature that the elements of the Governor's program be implemented and
that every effort be made to utilize appropriations provided herein and otherwise recommended
for each of these areas. It shall be incumbent upon and the responsibility of each board of
education, superintendent, principal and teacher to help provide the implementation of the
program. (Acts 1984, No. 84-622, p. 1260, §3.)...
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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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16-6G-5
Section 16-6G-5 Reading and intervention programs; individual reading improvement plan; summer
reading camps; Alabama Summer Achievement Program; retention of students; reporting requirements.
(a) To ensure that public school students are able to read at or above grade level by the
end of third grade, each local education agency shall offer a comprehensive core reading program
to all students based on the science of reading which develops foundational reading skills.
In addition, no school district may use any curriculum for public K-3 students that does not
have instructional time included. (b) Based on the results of the reading assessment in Section
16-6G-3, each K-3 student who exhibits a reading deficiency, or the characteristics of dyslexia,
shall be provided an appropriate reading intervention program to address his or her specific
deficiencies. Additionally, students shall be evaluated after every grading period and, if
a student is determined to have a reading deficiency, the...
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16-6G-4
Section 16-6G-4 Use of funds in support of Alabama Reading Initiative; literacy and reading
specialists. (a) Funds appropriated by the Legislature in support of the Alabama Reading Initiative
shall be allocated to support the following: (1) Local education agencies to support local
reading specialists. (2) The Alabama Summer Achievement Program. (3) Regional literacy specialists.
(4) Preservice and inservice teacher professional learning activities for elementary school
teachers in reading. (5) Curricula to support student interventions. (6) State administration.
(b) Funds dedicated to the Alabama Reading Initiative shall be expended on local and regional
reading specialists, professional learning activities, and administrative activities that
support all of the following activities for kindergarten through third grade students in public
K-12 schools; continued funding shall be contingent on measurable performance growth, as determined
by the task force established under subsection (a)...
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16-6A-14
Section 16-6A-14 Scholarship loans for teacher education programs in critical needs areas -
Rules and regulations. The Alabama Commission on Higher Education shall have the authority
to make reasonable rules and regulations for implementing and carrying out the provisions
of this chapter relating to the scholarship loan program. (Acts 1984, No. 84-622, p. 1260,
§14.)...
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16-23-24
Section 16-23-24 Teacher Education Scholarship Loan Program established; use; subsequent obligations;
funding; rule-making authority; provisions for current scholarship recipients. (a) Effective
October 1, 1993, there is established a Teacher Education Scholarship Loan Program (hereinafter
referred to as "the program") to provide for the education of certified, employed
public school teachers to be trained in the use of integrating technology skills in the curriculum.
First priority shall be given to those certified public school teachers in the fields of English,
science, mathematics, and social science and history and those who teach pupils in kindergarten
to grade six, inclusive. Twenty-five percent of the funds available through this program shall
be targeted for minority teachers. When moneys are available for scholarship loans for teachers
above and beyond the first priority group, the State Board of Education shall designate other
critical needs areas for scholarship loans. (b)...
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16-6A-10
Section 16-6A-10 Employment of provisionally certified persons for critical needs areas. (a)
Local school boards are hereby authorized, pursuant to rules and regulations established by
the State Board of Education, to employ provisionally certified persons from business, industry
or other areas or military retirees who have extensive preparation in mathematics, science,
computer education and other critical needs areas for a period not to exceed one year with
a limit of three years total employment. Such persons may be employed provided: (1) They have
at least a bachelor's degree in subject they are assigned to teach; (2) There are no regularly
certified teachers available to teach the course to be taught by these persons; and (3) They
are evaluated regularly and offered proper guidance by their supervisors. (b) The time served
as a provisionally certified teacher under this section shall not count toward time earned
for tenure. (c) The employment of provisionally certified teachers...
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