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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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16-6B-5
Section 16-6B-5 School safety and discipline accountability. In addition to providing quality
instruction in classrooms and fiscal soundness, all local boards of education shall be accountable
for compliance with statutes and regulations regarding school safety and discipline. The State
Department of Education shall send to all local boards of education and all local superintendents
of education, on or before August 1 of each year, a manual containing all acts of the Legislature
and all regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education which pertain to school safety
and discipline. Within thirty (30) days of receipt of this manual, each local board of education
shall provide to the State Board of Education a report, in the form prescribed by the State
Department of Education, describing its compliance with these acts and regulations. If a local
board of education is determined by the State Board of Education to have failed to comply
in any material respect with these acts and...
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16-13A-7
Section 16-13A-7 Audits. (a)(1) The yearly business and financial transactions of a local board
of education shall be audited as early as possible after the end of the fiscal year. (2) The
audits of the books and accounts of local boards of education shall be conducted by the Department
of Examiners of Public Accounts. The Department of Examiners of Public Accounts shall audit,
review, and otherwise investigate the receipts and disbursements of funds of each local board
in the same manner as audits are performed on other agencies and departments of the State
of Alabama. (3) Any local board of education governing a city school system, other than those
city systems required by law to be audited by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts
on June 1, 2006, may employ a certified public accounting firm or firms or use the Department
of Examiners of Public Accounts to perform its yearly financial audit of its books and accounts
including a legal compliance audit and program compliance...
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16-22A-32
Section 16-22A-32 Collection of fingerprints; submission of materials. (a) Each local employing
board and other public educational entity required to obtain criminal history background information
checks of current public certified employees and current public noncertified employees pursuant
to this article shall cooperate with the State Department of Education in obtaining two complete
acceptable sets of fingerprints and written consent from each current employee who has or
seeks to have unsupervised access to a child or children. (b)(1) Each local employing board
and other public educational entity shall, upon request, submit the following items to the
State Department of Education for each current public certified employee and current public
noncertified employee: a. Two functional acceptable fingerprint cards, bearing the fingerprints
of the individual, properly executed by an individual properly trained in fingerprinting techniques.
b. Written consent authorizing the release of...
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16-22A-34
Section 16-22A-34 Satisfaction of contingencies; procedures. (a) The requirement to conduct
a criminal history background information check on public and nonpublic current employees
pursuant to this chapter is contingent upon the State Superintendent of Education determining
that sufficient funds have been appropriated by the Legislature or made available from another
source to fund such background checks and related procedures. The State Superintendent of
Education shall certify to each local employing board, each nonpublic school, the State Finance
Director, and the Code Commissioner when sufficient funds have been appropriated for use by
the State Department of Education for purposes of conducting background checks and related
procedures on public and nonpublic current employees. (b) Upon the satisfaction of contingencies
provided in subsection (a) and upon the State Superintendent of Education certifying in writing
to the State Board of Education and each authorized employer that...
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16-28B-6
Section 16-28B-6 Duties of schools. Each school shall do all of the following: (1) Develop
and implement evidence-based practices to promote a school environment that is free of harassment,
intimidation, violence, and threats of violence. (2) Develop and implement evidence-based
practices to prevent harassment, intimidation, violence, and threats of violence based, as
a minimum, on the criteria established by this chapter and local board policy, and to intervene
when such incidents occur. (3) Incorporate into civility, citizenship, and character education
curricula awareness of and sensitivity to the prohibitions of this chapter and local board
policy against harassment, intimidation, violence, and threats of violence. (4) Report statistics
to the local board of actual violence, submitted reports of threats of violence, and harassment.
The local board shall provide the statistics of the school system and each school in the school
system to the department for posting on the department...
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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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26-19-4
Section 26-19-4 Specific functions of bureau. ACMEC shall be responsible for the following
specific functions: (1) To receive and promptly enter into the Alabama State Law Enforcement
Agency's computer system all reports of law enforcement agencies, and other persons and agencies,
of missing children and adults, exploited children, and of unidentified deceased persons,
and all pertinent information submitted by the person or agency reporting which is contained
in any investigation or investigations conducted pursuant to the report. ACMEC shall promptly
enter the information in the NCIC computer network. If a missing person is subsequently found
or if an unidentified deceased person is subsequently identified, and the information is reported
to the ACMEC, ACMEC shall maintain, as necessary, the data for law enforcement purposes only.
(2) To coordinate with and provide assistance to state and local public and private nonprofit
agencies, including those of other states and the federal...
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16-13-281
Section 16-13-281 Average salaries to match national average; funding; compliance. (a) The
average salary of Alabama teachers, including the State Minimum Salary Schedule, local salary
supplementals, state incentive pay such as National Board of Professional Teaching Standards
certification, and any other salary compensation paid to Alabama teachers, shall be increased
to the national average for teacher salaries as provided in this article. Beginning in the
fiscal year 2001-2002, and continuing each fiscal year thereafter until such time as the Alabama
teacher salary average has reached the national average for teacher salaries, there shall
be allocated 41.15 percent of the growth in the Education Trust Fund for teacher salaries.
The 41.15 percent of the growth shall not apply to any future new revenue source to the Education
Trust Fund, including any revenue generated from an increase in the rate or a substantial
change in the base of existing revenue sources. Provided, however, an...
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16-2-9
Section 16-2-9 Donation of surplus, non-expired food to charitable organizations for redistribution
to needy students. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following
meanings: (1) CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION. Any food bank or charitable organization as defined
in the federal Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. (2) DEPARTMENT. The State Department
of Education. (3) FOOD. Any raw, cooked, processed, or prepared edible substance, ice, beverage,
or ingredient used or intended for use in whole or in part for human consumption. (4) SCHOOL.
A public elementary school, middle school, or high school. (b) A local board of education
may allow any school under its jurisdiction to donate surplus, non-expired food to a charitable
organization through an official of the charitable organization who is directly affiliated
with the school, including a teacher, counselor, support staff, or any employee of the school,
or a parent of a student enrolled at the school. The...
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