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16-6E-6
Section 16-6E-6 Construction of chapter. This chapter shall be construed to do all of the following:
(1) Provide the State Superintendent of Education or the chief administrative officer with
broad discretion and complete authority to make, direct, implement, and enforce decisions,
actions, and measures which, in his or her judgment, are necessary and appropriate to the
attainment of the objectives of educational intervention and to accord the fullest measure
of deference to decisions and actions made by such officials in furtherance of intervention
goals and objectives. (2) Eliminate unnecessary delay in the implementation of measures designed
to attain intervention goals and objectives. (3) Protect vested and constitutionally based
employment rights through appropriate procedural safeguards without impairing attainment of
the goals and purposes of educational intervention or of this chapter. (4) Be cumulative,
supplemental, and complementary to other legislation that confers...
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16-6E-2
Section 16-6E-2 Purpose. The purposes of this chapter include all of the following: (1) To
clarify and confirm the authority of the State Superintendent of Education to assume and exercise
direct and comprehensive control over the decision making and operational functions of city
and county boards of education when the demonstrated inability of such boards of education
to discharge administrative, operational, or instructional functions threatens to deprive
students of essential educational services. (2) To simplify and streamline the exercise of
decision making authority during educational intervention by, among other things, eliminating
distinctions between policy making and administrative, academic, operational, financial, and
organizational decision making functions performed by city and county boards of education
that have impeded attainment of intervention objectives to the detriment of the educational
process. (3) To facilitate the implementation of such organizational reforms...
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16-6E-4
Section 16-6E-4 Intervention in local education operations and assumption of control by State
Board of Education. The State Board of Education may intervene in the educational operations
of a city or county board of education and thereby assume general and direct control over
all decision making and operational functions of the city or county board of education under
and subject to the following terms and conditions: (1) If the State Superintendent of Education
determines that a majority of the schools in the system are priority schools, or the system
is not in compliance with Chapter 13A of this title or the accreditation status of the system
or a majority of the schools in the system has been placed on probation, or suspended, or
revoked, or if any other formal disciplinary action has been ordered by the accrediting authority,
the State Superintendent of Education shall issue a written notice to the local superintendent
of education and the presiding officer of the city or county...
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16-24C-10
Section 16-24C-10 Termination upon revocation of teaching certificate; effect of convictions.
(a) Any provision of this chapter or of any other statute or rule to the contrary notwithstanding,
the employment of a teacher whose certificate is revoked by the State Superintendent of Education
pursuant to Section 16-23-5, shall thereby be summarily terminated. (b) If a conviction resulting
in the revocation of the certificate of the teacher pursuant to Section 16-23-5 is overturned
on appeal, the State Superintendent of Education shall immediately reinstate the certificate
upon receipt of notice of the reversal, and the employer shall either place the employee in
a position for which the employee holds appropriate certification or place the employee on
paid administrative leave. The employee shall receive back pay and benefits from the date
of termination to the date of reinstatement. (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed
to prevent the State Superintendent of Education or the...
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19-3-120.2
Section 19-3-120.2 Standards for fiduciary investment and management. (a) When investing, reinvesting,
purchasing, acquiring, exchanging, selling and managing property for the benefit of another,
a trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or other fiduciary, other than a
trustee governed by Chapter 3B, shall act with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under
the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar
with such matters would use to attain the purposes of the account. In making investment decisions,
a fiduciary shall consider the role that the investment plays within the account's overall
portfolio of assets and may consider the general economic conditions, the anticipated tax
consequences of the investment, the anticipated duration of the account and the needs of the
beneficiaries of the account. (b) The propriety of an investment decision is to be determined
by what a fiduciary knew or should have known at the time...
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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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16-6G-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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12-23A-4
Section 12-23A-4 Establishment of drug court; participation; incentives and sanctions; components;
drug court team and advisory committee; coordinator. (a)(1) The presiding judge of each judicial
circuit, with the consent of the district attorney of that judicial circuit, may establish
a drug court or courts, under which drug offenders shall be processed, to appropriately address
the identified substance abuse problem of the drug offender as a condition of pretrial release,
pretrial diversion, probation, jail, prison, parole, community corrections, or other release
or diversion from a correctional facility. The structure, method, and operation of each drug
court may differ and should be based upon the specific needs of and resources available to
the judicial district or circuit where the drug court is located, but shall be created and
operate pursuant to this chapter and in compliance with rules promulgated by the Alabama Supreme
Court. (2) Nothing in this chapter shall affect the...
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16-5-8
Section 16-5-8 Review, coordination, establishment, etc., of programs; transfer of credits;
Articulation and General Studies Committee. (a)(1) The Commission on Higher Education is authorized
to review periodically all new and existing programs and units of instruction, research, and
public service funded by state appropriations at the state universities and colleges and to
share with the appropriate governing board, through the president of the institution, and
state Legislature, its recommendations. (2) As a part of its program review process, the commission
shall enforce, monitor, and report on minimum degree productivity standards for all existing
programs of instruction at public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education.
Productivity standards shall be based, primarily, but not exclusively, on the annual average
number of degrees conferred during a five-year period for senior institutions and a three-year
period for two-year institutions, as verified by the...
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16-6F-8
Section 16-6F-8 Performance framework; oversight; renewal; revocation; school closure and dissolution;
reporting. (a) Performance framework. (1) The performance provisions within the charter contract
shall be based on a performance framework that clearly sets forth the academic and operational
performance indicators, measures, and metrics that will guide the authorizer's evaluations
of each public charter school. The performance framework shall include indicators, measures,
and metrics for, at a minimum: a. Student academic proficiency, which includes, but is not
limited to, performance on state standardized assessments. b. Student academic growth, which
includes, but is not limited to, performance on state standardized assessments. c. Achievement
gaps in both proficiency and growth between major student subgroups. d. Attendance. e. Recurrent
enrollment from year to year. f. Postsecondary readiness for high schools. g. Financial performance
and sustainability. h. Board performance and...
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