Title 16

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 may make such rules and regulations as will give full force and effect to any or all of its provisions. (School Code 1927, §57; Code 1940, T. 5…

The State Board of Education shall prescribe rules and regulations for the grading and standardizing of public schools. (School Code 1927, §37; Code 1940, T. 52, §16.)

(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 governing the training and the certification of teachers in the public schools of the state, and for the acceptance of the…

(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 (content) and knowing how to teach (methodology). To assure that teachers entering Alabama’s classrooms have been thoro…

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 employ additional expert assistance for such investigations if needed and appoint such agents for special investigati…

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 month calendar year. School systems desiring to use flexible school terms may utilize such scheduling to develop tutorial programs or in…

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 federal acts relating to vocational education. The State of Alabama accepts the benefits of these acts, passed by th…

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 and for other educational purposes which may hereafter be made out of the federal Treasury by any acts of Congress; and the State …

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 Superintendent of Education shall be secretary and executive officer of the board. (School Code 1927, §27; Code 1940, T. 52, §7; Ac…

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 in part by the state, through its executive officer, who shall be a member of the governing board or boa…

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 an annual report covering all operations of the Department of Education and the support, conditions, progress and needs of education throug…

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 shall recommend to the Governor and to the Legislature such additional legislation or changes in the existing legislation as may be d…

The State Board of Education may adopt a seal for the authentication of its official acts. (School Code 1927, §54; Code 1940, T. 52, §28.)

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 appointed agents shall have authority to administer oaths and to examine under oath, in any part of the state, witnesses in any ma…

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 this title, not subject to the provisions of the state Merit System, upon making known to him in writing the charge …

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 its control as may be for the best interests of the schools and, subject to the approval of the Governor, may acquire, sell and convey…

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 upon review by the State Superintendent of Education of actions and orders of county and city boards of education and of co…

(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 educational institutions under its supervision, acting through its board of trustees or other governing body, ar…

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 and administered for the use of such schools. (School Code 1927, §626; Code 1940, T. 52, §38.)

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 which he represents. No person who is an employee of the board or who is or has been engaged as a professional educator within five years nex…

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 Board of Education shall have power to administer such trusts as it deems to the best interest of the school or schools for the benefit of which the…

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 public school of the state upon such conditions as may be acceptable to the donor and the State Board of Education, but no undertaking ent…

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 available to them at state-supported educational institutions. The State Board of Education shall, by its rules and…

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 college or university level at private nondenominational institutions when such instruction is not available to such reside…

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 of Education and under such rules and regulations as the State Board of Education shall determine, may contract with other state governme…

(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) Veterinary medicine; (2) Engineering; (3) Vocational agriculture; (4) Vocational home economics; (5) Chemistry;…

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 and control. (Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 233, p. 356, § 1.)

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 duty as a member of the State Board of Education and for which the member is personally liable. The indemnification shall be made by including…

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 copy of the charges against him and, upon not less than 10 days’ notice, an opportunity of being heard publicly in person or b…

(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 make the examination available to nonpublic high school students in the state. (b) This section shall not be construed as req…

The State Board of Education shall require each local board of education to do all of the following before the start of the 2024-2025 school year: (1) Develop a written policy on student discipline and education related to the distribution of private images as defined in Section …

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 Senate at the next succeeding session of the Legislature. (School Code 1927, §31; Code 1940, T. 52, §10.)

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 office prescribed by Article XVI of the state constitution, the certificate whereof shall be filed with the records of the board. (Schoo…

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 in Montgomery, at which meeting one of its members shall be elected vice-president. Such other meetings may be held as the needs of public e…

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 total of not more than 25 days in any fiscal year and their actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings and transa…

(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 which shall be in addition to the per diem compensation and actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred in attending meetin…