Section 16-13-230 Establishment of fund. There is hereby established a fund for the public schools of the state which shall be known as the Foundation Program Fund and which shall be used for providing a minimum school term and for providing educational opportunities. This fund shall comprise all appropriations made by the Legislature to the […]
Section 16-13-231 Purposes and plan of apportionment. (a) In addition to all other appropriations and apportionments of public school money now provided by law and made available for public schools there shall be apportioned and paid to local boards of education from the Foundation Program Fund, the amounts to be determined as hereinafter provided and […]
Section 16-13-231.1 Local salary schedules; written retirement application; appropriations. (a) Any law to the contrary notwithstanding, each county and city board of education shall adopt a local salary schedule which is at least 100 percent of the State Minimum Salary Schedule as established by Sections 16-6B-8 and 16-13-231. Each teacher employed by the board shall […]
Section 16-13-231.2 State Salary Matrix renamed. Notwithstanding Chapter 6B and other provisions of this chapter, and notwithstanding Section 16-13-231.1, the “State Salary Matrix” is hereby renamed the “State Minimum Salary Schedule.” This provision shall take effect on October 1, 1998. (Act. 98-510, p. 1189, §2(f).)
Section 16-13-231.3 Funds for classroom supplies. (a) There shall be annually appropriated from the Education Trust Fund to each public state earned classroom teacher in public school grades K to 12 the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) for classroom supplies. (b) Classroom supplies may include, but are not limited to, paper goods, cleaning supplies, […]
Section 16-13-232 Determining number of teacher units and instructional support units; grade level divisors. (a) In determining the number of teacher units for the purpose of apportioning the state Foundation Program, one teacher unit or fraction thereof shall be allowed for the specified number of pupils in average daily membership as provided for in subsection […]
Section 16-13-233 Allowance for transportation. (a) The allowance for transportation for those local boards of education providing same shall be determined as follows for any local board of education: The number of pupils transported on transportation routes approved under regulations of the State Board of Education shall be multiplied by an amount per pupil which […]
Section 16-13-234 Allocation of funds. (a) In making apportionment of the Public School Fund held by the state, to the local boards of education, the State Superintendent of Education shall first set apart and distribute to the schools of each township the amount due from the state thereto as interest on its sixteenth section fund, […]
Section 16-13-234.1 Funding salary increases mandated by Legislature. (a) Any local board of education receiving a hold harmless allowance as provided for in Section 16-13-234, may use part or all of the funds received by the local board from the Public School Fund for capital outlay allowance to pay the costs of any salary increase […]
Section 16-13-235 Local boards of education to furnish information and file records; State Superintendent of Education to provide data; rules and regulations. (a) All local boards of education are required, in order to receive state funds, to furnish all such information and to file such records and reports as may be required by the State […]
Section 16-13-236 Funds for vocational/technical education. Funds provided by the state to local boards of education for vocational/technical education shall be spent only for its intended purposes. (Acts 1995, No. 95-314, p. 634, §7.)
Section 16-13-237 Funding city board of education beyond board’s pro rata share of countywide tax. It is not the intent of the Legislature to require, and the Legislature expressly so declares that it does not require, any county to provide funding to any city board of education beyond the city board of education’s pro rata […]
Section 16-13-238 Failure to provide certain amount of local tax support. Should any county or city governing body fail to provide an amount of local tax support for its respective local board of education in an amount equivalent to the mills of ad valorem tax as required by law, the Foundation Program Fund allocation for […]
Section 16-13-239 References to “minimum program” deemed references to “Foundation Program.” Whenever any act, section of the Code of Alabama 1975, or any other provision of law refers to the “minimum program” as it relates to the funding of education, it shall be deemed a reference to the “Foundation Program.” (Acts 1995, No. 95-314, p. […]
