16-1-16.1
Section 16-1-16.1 Alabama Council on Family and Children. (a) The Legislature finds that there is at present a need in Alabama to coordinate, at the state and local level, the efforts of existing providers of services supporting early childhood development and family involvement in education. (b) There is hereby established the Alabama Council on Family and Children to be composed of the Governor, who shall be chairperson; the State Superintendent of Education; the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources; the State Health Officer; the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation; the Chairman of the Children's Trust Fund; and the Director of the Department of Youth Services, or their designated representatives, and one additional member from each congressional district to be appointed by the Governor. Said council shall exist for the purpose of coordinating existing services, at the state and local level, supporting early childhood development and...
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16-1-24.1
Section 16-1-24.1 Safe school and drug-free school policy; treatment of policy violators; promulgation and distribution of discipline policy; liability limited for discipline actions; local boards may adopt more stringent guidelines. (a) The Legislature finds a compelling public interest in ensuring that schools are made safe and drug-free for all students and school employees. The Legislature finds the need for a comprehensive safe school and drug-free school policy to be adopted by the State Board of Education. This policy should establish minimum standards for classes of offenses and prescribe uniform minimum procedures and penalties for those who violate the policies. It is the intent of the Legislature that our schools remain safe and drug-free for all students and school employees. The State Board of Education shall adopt and all local boards of education shall uniformly enforce policies that protect all students and school employees. The State Board of Education shall require...
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16-25-19
Section 16-25-19 Administration. (a) The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this chapter are hereby vested in a board of trustees which shall be known as the Board of Control and shall be organized immediately after a majority of the trustees provided for in this section shall have qualified and taken the oath of office. (b) The board shall consist of 15 trustees as follows: (1) The State Superintendent of Education, ex officio. (2) The State Treasurer, ex officio. (3) The state Director of Finance, ex officio. (4) Twelve elected members of the retirement system. Those 12 members shall consist of representatives elected from each of the following categories: two shall be retired members, one shall be a city or county superintendent, one shall be a principal, one shall be a member from an institution of postsecondary education that is part of the Alabama Community College System, two...
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16-4-21
Section 16-4-21 Inventory; federal grants; special studies. The State Superintendent of Education shall make an inventory of all school buildings and sites and keep a continuous inventory of the same thereafter, cooperate with county and city boards of education in securing federal grants to assist in school building construction by making special studies of school building needs on request of local school authorities and making the same available to the proper federal agencies and make special studies presenting the need of public education in Alabama for general federal aid for the support of the public schools and shall make the same available to appropriate federal agencies. (Acts 1939, No. 441, p. 585, ยง 1; Code 1940, T. 52, §61.)...
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16-6A-16
Section 16-6A-16 Plan for in-service education centers; governing boards; requirements of centers; school systems to affiliate with centers. (a) A comprehensive plan shall be established by the Governor's Educational Reform Commission and implemented for the development and location of in-service education centers for the purpose of providing rigorous in-service training in critical needs areas for the state's public school personnel. These in-service centers shall not replace the plan for in-service education which the State Department of Education adopted by resolution on June 14, 1978. The in-service centers established pursuant to this chapter shall be located in existing institutions of higher education located in strategic areas of the state as recommended by the commission and approved by the Governor. Institutions of higher education where such in-service centers may be located shall have resident faculty members in education and the academic areas taught in the public schools....
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16-6F-9
Section 16-6F-9 Legal status and powers of public charter schools; employees. (a) Legal status of a public charter school. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, to the extent that any provision of this chapter is inconsistent with any other state or local law, rule, or regulation, the provisions of this chapter shall govern and be controlling. (2) A public charter school shall be subject to all federal laws and authorities enumerated herein or arranged by charter contract with the school's authorizer, where such contracting is consistent with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. (3) Except as provided in this chapter, a public charter school shall not be subject to the state's education statutes or any state or local rule, regulation, policy, or procedure relating to non-charter public schools within an applicable local school system regardless of whether such rule, regulation, policy, or procedure is established by the local school board, the State Board of...
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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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41-16-78
Section 41-16-78 Exceptions. (a) This article shall not apply to any entity that does not receive state funds. (b) This article shall also not apply to direct health care services provided by the Alabama Department of Public Health. (c) This article shall not apply to any county or municipality, or any board, public corporation, authority, public utility district, or other entity created by any county or municipality, or to the Alabama Municipal Electric Authority created pursuant to the provisions of Section 11-50A-1, et seq., nor shall it apply to any local school board, the State Department of Education, or other entity covered under Section 41-16-50, et seq., except as herein provided for future support of computer technology or any educational and eleemosynary institutions governed by a board of trustees or other similar governing body, nor shall it apply to any statewide non-profit water and wastewater utility association. (d) This article shall not apply to any state authority,...
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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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16-28-3
Section 16-28-3 Ages of children required to attend school; exemption for church school students; transfer students. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), every child between the ages of six and 17 years shall be required to attend a public school, private school, church school, or be instructed by a competent private tutor for the entire length of the school term in every scholastic year except that, prior to attaining his or her 16th birthday every child attending a church school as defined in Section 16-28-1 is exempt from the requirements of this section, provided the child complies with enrollment and reporting procedures specified in Section 16-28-7. Admission to public school shall be on an individual basis on the application of the parents, legal custodian, or guardian of the child to the local board of education at the beginning of each school year, under the rules as the board may prescribe; provided, a person who is under 19 years of age and on track to...
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