16-28-6
Section 16-28-6 Children exempt from attending public school. (a) The following children, when issued certificates of exemption by the county superintendent of education, where they reside in territory under the control and supervision of the county board of education, or the city superintendent of schools, where they reside in territory under the control and supervision of a city board of education, shall not be required to attend school, or to be instructed by a private tutor: (1) Children whose physical or mental condition is such as to prevent or render inadvisable attendance at school or application to study. Before issuing such certificate of exemption, the superintendent shall require a certificate from the county health officer in counties which have a health unit, and from a regularly licensed, practicing physician in counties which do not have a health unit, that such a child is physically or mentally incapacitated for school work. (2) Children who have completed the course...
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16-28-16
Section 16-28-16 Cases of nonenrollment and nonattendance; withdrawal of enrollment. (a) It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of education or the city superintendent of education, as the case may be, to require the attendance officer to investigate all cases of nonenrollment and of nonattendance. In all cases investigated where no valid reason for nonenrollment or nonattendance is found, the attendance officer shall give written notice to the parent, guardian, or other person having control of the child. In the event of the absence of the parent, guardian, or other person having control of the child from his or her usual place of residence, the attendance officer shall leave a copy of the notice with some person over 12 years of age residing at the usual place of residence, with instructions to hand the notice to the parent, guardian, or other person having control of the child, which notice shall require the attendance of the child at the school within three days from the...
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16-40-9
f. The Senate Education and Youth Affairs Committee Chair, or his or her designee. (3) The task force shall make recommendations for decreasing the incidence of sexual abuse of children in this state. In making recommendations, the task force shall do all of the following: a. Gather information regarding sexual abuse of children throughout the state. b. Receive related reports and testimony from individuals, state and local agencies, community-based organizations, and other public and private organizations. c. Create goals for state education policy that would enhance the prevention of sexual abuse of children. d. Create goals for other areas of state policy that would enhance the prevention of sexual abuse of children. e. Submit a report with its recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by December 31, 2015. (4) Recommendations by the task force may include proposals for specific statutory changes and methods to foster cooperation among state agencies and between the...
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16-6F-9
necessary for carrying out the terms of its charter contract including the following powers: (1) To receive and disburse funds for school purposes. (2) To secure appropriate insurance and to enter into contracts and leases. (3) To contract with an education service provider for the management and operation of the public charter school so long as the school's governing board retains oversight authority over the school. (4) To incur debt in reasonable anticipation of the receipt of public or private funds. (5) To pledge, assign, or encumber its assets to be used as collateral for loans or extensions of credit. (6) To solicit and accept any gifts or grants for school purposes subject to applicable laws and the terms of its charter contract. (7) To acquire real property for use as its facility or facilities, from public or private sources. (8) To sue and be sued in its own name. (c) General requirements. (1) A public charter school shall not discriminate against any person on the basis...
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44-2-20
guardianship or similar control. (b) "Sending agency" means a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a subdivision of a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a court of a party state; a person, corporation, association, charitable agency or other entity which sends, brings or causes to be sent or brought any child to another party state. (c) "Receiving state" means the state to which a child is sent, brought or caused to be sent or brought, whether by public authorities or private persons or agencies, and whether for placement with state or local public authorities or for placement with private agencies or persons. (d) "Placement" means the arrangement for the care of a child in a family free or boarding home or in a child-caring agency or institution but does not include any institution caring for the mentally ill, mentally defective or epileptic or any institution primarily educational in character, and any hospital or other medical facility. Article III....
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11-52-6
Section 11-52-6 Municipal Planning Commission - Powers and duties generally. (a) In general, the commission shall have such powers as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions, promote municipal planning or carry out the purposes of this chapter. (b) The commission shall have power to promote public interest in and understanding of the master plan and to that end may publish and distribute copies of the plan or of any report and may employ such other means of publicity and education as it may determine. (c) Members of the commission, when duly authorized by the commission, may attend municipal planning conferences or meetings of municipal planning institutes or hearings upon pending municipal planning legislation, and the commission may, by resolution, spread upon its minutes, pay the reasonable traveling expenses incident to such attendance. (d) The commission shall, from time to time, recommend to the appropriate public officials programs for public structures and...
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16-1-24.3
Section 16-1-24.3 Local boards of education to implement policies requiring expulsion of students who possess firearms in school areas. (a) All city and county boards of education shall develop and implement local policies and procedures requiring the expulsion of students, for a period of one year, who are determined to have brought to school or have in their possession a firearm in a school building, on school grounds, on school buses, or at other school-sponsored functions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, city and county boards of education and the local superintendent of education of each board may modify the expulsion requirement for a student on a case-by-case basis. Students who are expelled for violation of this section shall not be allowed to attend regular school classes in any public school in the state during the expulsion period. Students who are expelled from schools for firearm possession may be permitted to attend alternative schools designed to provide education...
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16-22A-6
Section 16-22A-6 Request from schools for criminal history background information check. (a) The State Department of Education, or other public authorized employer responsible for hiring employees who will have unsupervised access to children in an educational setting, shall request through the State Department of Education, that the Department of Public Safety secure from both the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and Federal Bureau of Investigation a criminal history background information check on each applicant for certification, certified applicant for public employment, noncertified applicant for public employment, and public current employee under review. (b) Any nonpublic school in which an individual may have unsupervised access to children in an educational setting, shall through its duly authorized representative under guidelines established by the nonpublic school employer, request that the Department of Public Safety secure a state criminal history background information...
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16-40A-2
Section 16-40A-2 Minimum contents to be included in sex education program or curriculum. (a) Any program or curriculum in the public schools in Alabama that includes sex education or the human reproductive process shall, as a minimum, include and emphasize the following: (1) Abstinence from sexual intercourse is the only completely effective protection against unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) when transmitted sexually. (2) Abstinence from sexual intercourse outside of lawful marriage is the expected social standard for unmarried school-age persons. (b) Course materials and instruction that relate to sexual education or sexually transmitted diseases should be age-appropriate. (c) Course materials and instruction that relate to sexual education or sexually transmitted diseases should include all of the following elements: (1) An emphasis on sexual abstinence as the only completely reliable method of avoiding unwanted...
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26-14-3
Section 26-14-3 Mandatory reporting. (a) All hospitals, clinics, sanitariums, doctors, physicians, surgeons, medical examiners, coroners, dentists, osteopaths, optometrists, chiropractors, podiatrists, physical therapists, nurses, public and private K-12 employees, school teachers and officials, peace officers, law enforcement officials, pharmacists, social workers, day care workers or employees, mental health professionals, employees of public and private institutions of postsecondary and higher education, members of the clergy as defined in Rule 505 of the Alabama Rules of Evidence, or any other person called upon to render aid or medical assistance to any child, when the child is known or suspected to be a victim of child abuse or neglect, shall be required to report orally, either by telephone or direct communication immediately, and shall be followed by a written report, to a duly constituted authority. (b)(1) When an initial report is made to a law enforcement official, the...
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