Title 16 — Title 16

This chapter may be referred to as the “Alabama Exceptional Child Education Act.” History: (Acts 1971, No. 106, p. 373, §13.)

Having Other Special Learning Disabilities. The local superintendents of education are authorized to purchase and arrange for distribution among schools previously adopted textbooks, equipment and materials which are prepared in various resource and media centers for the use of v…

When authorized by regulations of the State Board of Education in lieu of the amount calculated on the basis of average daily membership otherwise authorized by law, there shall be allowed from the Education Trust Fund appropriation for transportation for each bus used exclusivel…

The State Board of Education is authorized to make training grants to professional personnel who seek special training in exceptional child education to qualify said personnel to meet professional requirements set forth in said state board’s regulations and shall be responsible f…

Education Services; Confidentiality, Retention, and Use of Recordings. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) SELF-CONTAINED CLASSROOM. A public K-12 classroom in which at least half of the students in regular attendance are pro…

For purposes of this chapter, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the following respective interpretations: (1) EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN. Persons between the ages of six and 21 years who have been certified under regulations of the State Board of Education by a special…

Each school board shall provide not less than 12 consecutive years of appropriate instruction and special services for exceptional children, beginning with those six years of age, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such public school instruction and special servic…

There is hereby established the Catastrophic Trust Fund for Special Education to be titled the Catastrophic Trust Fund for Special Education Act, to be administered by the State Department of Education for the purpose of assisting local education agencies providing special educat…

For the purposes of this article, the following words, terms and phrases shall have the following interpretations: (1) SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. Services relating to instruction of exceptional children with disabilities. (2) EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN. Those children and youth with…

All funds appropriated as a result of this article and funds obtained through donations, bequests, other forms of financial assistance, and accrued interest in the investment of all funds that are to be used to fund services for exceptional children with disabilities. All unencum…

The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the total operation of the Catastrophic Trust Fund for Special Education and shall request funding for the Catastrophic Trust Fund for Special Education. History: (Acts 1991, No. 91-594, p. 1097, §4.)

The State Superintendent of Education shall provide an annual report on the status of the Catastrophic Trust Fund for Special Education to the State Board of Education, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House, and the chairman of the Senate and House Educa…

Within 120 days after July 22, 1971, each school board in the State of Alabama shall take a careful and thorough survey of persons who (if thereafter certified by a specialist) would probably qualify as exceptional children residing in its school district, which survey shall show…

The State Board of Education shall adopt regulations covering: (1) The qualifications of specialists for each type of exceptionality and standards for certification of exceptional children; (2) Minimum standards of instruction and special services to be provided for each type of …

During the fifth year of implementation of the incremental five-year plan referred to above, each school board shall submit a long-range plan for providing appropriate instruction and special services for exceptional children and shall submit said long- range plan to the State Bo…

No child shall be given special services under the terms of this chapter as an exceptional child until he is properly classified as an exceptional child; provided, that the child’s parent or guardian shall be informed of the reasons for such classification. A copy of the report c…

The Alabama Boys Industrial School, Alabama State Training School for Girls, Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, Alabama state Department of Mental Health, State Crippled Children’s Service, the State Board of Health and the Department of Human Resources shall direct their fiel…