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16-13-140
Section 16-13-140 Established for county and city school systems; form of annual budget required;
public hearings required. (a) There shall be a budget system for the public schools of each
county and city for the purpose of promoting economy and efficiency in the finances of the
public schools. (b) The State Department of Education shall prepare proposed annual budget
forms for each local board of education and shall make the forms available to each local superintendent
of education by August 1 of the first year of each legislative quadrennium and by July 1 of
each subsequent year of each legislative quadrennium for use with public hearings. The forms
shall be clear, uniform, and concise in order to promote understanding by the general public
of the budget process. (c) Each local board of education shall hold at least two open public
hearings pertaining to its proposed annual budget. Copies of the proposed budget shall be
provided to the public at each hearing on forms provided by the...
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16-63-2
Section 16-63-2 Purpose; public policy declared. The purpose of this chapter is to encourage
greater community involvement in the public schools and greater community use of public school
facilities. To this end it is declared to be the policy of this state: (1) To provide for
increased involvement by citizens in their local schools through community schools advisory
committees. (2) To assure maximum use of public school facilities by the citizens of each
community in this state. (3) To provide for increased involvement by business and industry
in every school system through business/industry partnerships - adopt-a-school programs. (Acts
1990, No. 90-544, p. 848, ยง2.)...
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16-6B-7
Section 16-6B-7 Accountability reports to the public. (a) The local board of education shall
prepare an annual accountability report for each school and area vocational/technical center
under its jurisdiction, and for itself, to be provided to the public under regulations promulgated
by the State Board of Education. Such accountability reports shall include, but not be limited
to, all of the following: (1) A Funding and Expenditure Report which shall include those documents
specified in Section 16-6B-4 and which shall include the amount of Foundation Program funds
or vocational/technical education funds, or both, earned and of all funds expended and any
other data deemed necessary by the local board of education or the State Board of Education
to inform the public about the financial status of each school. (2) A Student Achievement
Report which shall include a comparison of the immediately previous school year with the previous
five years regarding student performance on testing...
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16-6B-1
Section 16-6B-1 Student achievement. (a) The Legislature finds that the people of Alabama desire
two basic things from their public schools: (1) High achievement for students. (2) A safe
and orderly environment in which to learn. (b) The Legislature encourages the State Board
of Education to assist local boards of education in the development of a strong disciplinary
policy and directs the State Board of Education to develop a program to closely monitor student
achievement. (1) The State Board of Education shall require implementation of an assessment
program for the public schools of Alabama. The assessment program may include nationally normed
tests or criterion referenced tests, or both. These tests may be used to assist in the assessment
of student achievement. The State Board of Education may also require the use of other tests
and assessments as the board may deem necessary. (2) In grades 11 and 12, the State Board
of Education shall implement an assessment and remediation...
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16-22A-3
Section 16-22A-3 Definitions. When used in this chapter only, the following terms shall have
the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1)
APPLICANT. A certified or noncertified individual who submits an application for employment
to a local employing board or any nonpublic school, to act in any capacity in which the individual
will have unsupervised access to children in an educational environment. (2) APPLICANT FOR
CERTIFICATION. An individual who submits an application for certification issued by the State
Superintendent of Education. (3) AUTHORIZED EMPLOYER. Any educational entity authorized to
obtain criminal history background information, including the State Department of Education,
local employing boards, and nonpublic schools which are responsible for hiring employees or
contracting with private employers to provide personnel who have unsupervised access to children
in an educational setting. (4) CERTIFIED APPLICANT FOR EMPLOYMENT. A...
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22-27-3
Section 22-27-3 Authority of local governing bodies as waste collections and disposal; household
exemptions; state regulatory program. (a) Generally. (1) The county commission or municipal
governing body may, and is hereby authorized to, make available to the general public collection
and disposal facilities for solid wastes in a manner acceptable to the department. The county
commission or municipal governing body may provide such collection or disposal services by
contract with private or other controlling agencies and may include house-to-house service
or the placement of regularly serviced and controlled bulk refuse receptacles within reasonable
(generally less than eight miles) distance from the farthest affected household and the wastes
managed in a manner acceptable to the department. (2) Any county commission or municipal governing
body providing services to the public under this article shall have the power and authority
by resolution or ordinance to adopt rules and...
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22-29-20
Section 22-29-20 Grants to local public bodies - Plan or program. The plan or program for funding
the grant by the authority to a local public body for a project may be any one or more of
the following, as shall be approved by the authority: (1) An appropriation by the state. (2)
A grant by a corporation, foundation, fund or agency, public or private, to the state for
the purpose of abating water pollution or assisting local public bodies with their projects;
provided, that the state shall not receive any grant from a local public body which has received
or is to receive a grant for its project from the state. (3) The undertaking by the local
public body to levy, collect and pay over to the authority and to continue to levy, collect
and pay over to the authority sums sufficient to pay bond service charges with respect to
the bonds of the authority issued to fund a grant for such project the proceeds of any one
or more of the following: a. Any sewer or waste disposal service fee or...
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37-1-80.2
Section 37-1-80.2 Dual party relay system and fund; board of trustees; funding of other services;
liability of trustees. (a) The Alabama Public Service Commission shall impose a surcharge
on each access line of each customer of the local exchange companies operating in Alabama
to fund a dual party relay system whereby a deaf or hearing-impaired person may communicate
with other such persons or with hearing persons via telephone. The fee may be imposed by order
of the Alabama Public Service Commission on the access line. (b) The Alabama Public Service
Commission shall establish the amount to be imposed based on the amount of funding necessary
to implement and maintain such system. However, no additional fees other than the surcharge
may be imposed on any user of this deaf and hearing-impaired service. (c) The local exchange
companies shall collect the surcharge from their customers and transfer the moneys collected
to the Alabama Public Service Commission to be deposited into a special...
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16-28B-2
Section 16-28B-2 Legislative intent. It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the
adoption of policies in public school systems to prevent the bullying of students. It is the
further intent of the Legislature that this chapter apply only to student against student
bullying, intimidation, violence, and threats of violence in the public schools of Alabama,
and between students while not on school property, in grades prekindergarten through 12, and
that the State Department of Education develop, and each local board of education adopt procedural
policies to manage and possibly prevent these acts against any student by another student
or students based on the characteristics of a student. Additionally, it is the intent of the
Legislature that the filing of a complaint of bullying be in writing and submitted by the
affected student, or the parent or guardian of the affected student, and not by an education
employee on behalf of an affected student or his or her parent or guardian....
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16-6G-7
Section 16-6G-7 Alabama Committee on Grade Level Reading. (a) The State Superintendent of Education
shall establish the Alabama Committee on Grade Level Reading. The committee shall consist
of three members appointed from each State Board of Education district. The Governor, the
Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore
of the Senate shall each appoint one member from each district. The appointing authorities
shall coordinate their appointments so that diversity of gender, race, and geographical areas
is reflective of the makeup of this state. (b) Each member of the committee shall be a parent
or legal guardian of a state K-12 public school student, a practicing teacher, a retired teacher,
or employed in the field of education. (c) On or before June 30, 2020, the committee shall
revise the 2011 Alabama Action Plan for Literacy Birth Through Grade 12 in consultation with
the Campaign for Grade Level Reading group, which shall be...
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