Code of Alabama - Title 16: Education - Chapter 3 - State Board of Education

• Section 16-3-1 Composition; election; term of office
  The State Board of Education shall be composed of the Governor as an ex officio member and eight members elected from districts provided by general...
• Section 16-3-1.1 State Board of Education districts; official maps
  (a) The state is divided into eight State Board of Education districts as follows: District 1: Baldwin County, Butler County, Conecuh County, Covington County, Crenshaw...
• Section 16-3-2 Officers
  The Governor shall be the President of the State Board of Education, and the board shall elect a vice-president from its members annually. The State...
• Section 16-3-3 Qualifications of members
  The members of the board shall be qualified electors of the State of Alabama, and each member shall be a qualified elector in the district...
• Section 16-3-4 Removal of members
  The Governor may remove any appointive member of the board for immorality, misconduct in office, incompetency or willful neglect of duty, giving to him a...
• Section 16-3-5 Vacancies
  As vacancies occur on the board for any cause they shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term subject to confirmation by the...
• Section 16-3-6 Oath of office
  Before exercising any authority or performing any duty, each member of the board shall qualify as such by taking and subscribing to the oath of...
• Section 16-3-7 Meetings
  The State Board of Education shall hold a regular annual meeting on the second Tuesday in July at the office of the Department of Education...
• Section 16-3-8 Compensation of members
  The members of the State Board of Education shall receive a per diem compensation of $10.00 for each day of actual service and for a...
• Section 16-3-9 Expense allowance for members
  (a) Each member of the State Board of Education shall be entitled to an expense allowance of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per month...
• Section 16-3-10 Compensation of employees subject to the Merit System
  The State Board of Education, upon recommendation of the State Superintendent of Education, shall determine the compensation of all employees in the Department of Education...
• Section 16-3-11 Powers generally
  The State Board of Education shall exercise, through the State Superintendent of Education and his professional assistants, general control and supervision over the public schools...
• Section 16-3-12 Rules and regulations - Generally
  The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and regulations for the proper construction of school buildings, for the sanitation of schools, for the physical...
• Section 16-3-13 Rules and regulations - Necessary to make effective the law's purpose
  In order to meet emergencies that may arise because of any defect in the language or purpose of this title, the State Board of Education...
• Section 16-3-14 Grading and standardizing schools
  The State Board of Education shall prescribe rules and regulations for the grading and standardizing of public schools.
• Section 16-3-16 Teachers' training and certification; reciprocity
  (a) Subject to the provisions of Chapter 23 of this title, the State Board of Education, through its executive officer, shall prescribe rules and regulations...
• Section 16-3-16.1 Board to review requirements for teacher education; nationally normed teacher examination
  (a) The Legislature finds a compelling interest in adequately preparing teachers to teach. The two basic components of teaching consist of knowing what to teach...
• Section 16-3-17 Educational needs investigated
  The State Board of Education shall conduct investigations relating to the educational needs of the state and the means of improving educational conditions. It may...
• Section 16-3-17.3 Flexible school terms
  It is the intent of the Legislature that local school systems be permitted to develop flexible school terms extending over the course of the 12...
• Section 16-3-18 Vocational education
  The State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Education shall cooperate with the Federal Board for Vocational Education in the administration of all...
• Section 16-3-19 Acceptance of federal funds by board
  The State Board of Education may accept for the State of Alabama any appropriation of money for the removal of illiteracy, the teaching of immigrants...
• Section 16-3-20 Supervision of educational work of special institutions
  The State Board of Education shall have general supervision of the educational work of all charitable, penal, reformatory and child-caring institutions, maintained in whole or...
• Section 16-3-21 Annual report
  The board of education shall submit each year on or before the first day of December, or as early thereafter as practicable, to the Governor...
• Section 16-3-22 Recommendations of legislation
  The State Board of Education shall consider the educational needs of the state and on and with the advice of the State Superintendent of Education...
• Section 16-3-23 Seal
  The State Board of Education may adopt a seal for the authentication of its official acts.
• Section 16-3-24 Oaths of agents; examination of witnesses
  The State Board of Education by its presiding officer, or its committees by their chairmen, the State Superintendent of Education and any of its duly...
• Section 16-3-25 Removal of appointees; filling of vacancies in office of appointees
  The State Board of Education may remove for incompetency, immorality, misconduct in office or willful neglect of duty, any person appointed under the provisions of...
• Section 16-3-26 Property control
  The State Board of Education may hold, lease and rent real and personal property and may make such repairs and improvements on all property under...
• Section 16-3-27 Review of local actions by state superintendent
  The State Board of Education shall have the power and authority to promulgate rules and regulations governing the right and method of review and disposition...
• Section 16-3-28 Authority of board and trustees of institutions to borrow from federal agencies or others; issuance of bonds, notes and other securities
  (a) The State Board of Education, acting for the respective educational institutions under its supervision, and each public corporation that conducts one or more state...
• Section 16-3-29 Donations held for schools
  Property, money or other thing of value may be donated for the benefit of the public schools of this state to be held in trust...
• Section 16-3-30 Administration of gifts and donations
  Whenever any property, money or thing of value is donated to be used for the benefit of the public schools of this state, the State...
• Section 16-3-31 Gifts may be accepted on conditions
  The State Board of Education may accept the administration of property, money or other thing of value donated in trust for the benefit of any...
• Section 16-3-32 Providing instruction not available at state-supported institutions - Graduate and professional instruction
  The State Board of Education, under such rules and regulations as it shall determine, may provide for residents of Alabama graduate and professional instruction not...
• Section 16-3-33 Providing instruction not available at state-supported institutions - College or university instruction
  The State Board of Education, under such rules and regulations as it shall determine, may provide assistance for residents of Alabama for instruction on the...
• Section 16-3-34 Authority of institutions of higher learning to make interstate educational agreements
  Any institution of higher learning which receives all or part of its support from the State of Alabama, subject to approval by the State Board...
• Section 16-3-35 Contracts with Tuskegee Institute and Meharry Medical College for education of Alabama students
  (a) The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to contract with the Tuskegee Institute for educational services for Alabama students including the following: (1)...
• Section 16-3-37 Naming or designating institutions of higher learning
  The State Board of Education is hereby vested with the authority to name or designate any institution of higher learning which is under its supervision...
• Section 16-3-39 Indemnification of members
  Members of the State Board of Education shall be indemnified for any loss incurred as a result of damage done in the performance of their...
• Section 16-3-40 Public high school graduation examination available to nonpublic high school students
  (a) If the State Board of Education requires public high school students to take a high school graduation examination prior to graduation, the board shall...

Last modified: May 3, 2021