§18-5-22a. Policy for the Administration of Medications
All county boards of education shall develop a specific medication administration policy which establishes the procedure to be followed for the administration of medication at each school. No school employee shall be required to administer medications: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent any school employee to elect to administer medication after receiving training as provided […]
§18-5-19d. Conditional Immunity From Liability for Community Activities; Liability Insurance; Authority of State Board of Risk and Insurance Management
(a)(1) If the requirements of this subsection are met, the board of education is not liable under any theory of vicarious or imputed liability for the acts or omissions of: (A) Any person, organization or association using school property for a community activity described in section nineteen of this article;
§18-5-20. School Libraries; Librarian
The board may provide libraries for its schools and may purchase books, bookcases, and other things necessary therefor, and shall pay the cost of such libraries out of school funds of the county. In connection with any such school library, the board may employ a full-time librarian or may require one of the teachers at […]
§18-5-21. Free Textbooks
The Board of Education of every county may purchase the necessary textbooks to be used in the free schools by the pupils thereof. All textbooks so purchased shall be kept in charge by the county superintendent and furnished to the pupils of the free schools of the county as hereinafter provided. All such books shall […]
§18-5-21a. Textbooks to Be Furnished Pupils Whose Parents Are Unable to Provide Same
The Board of Education of every county shall provide the textbooks to be used in the free schools for the pupils whose parents, in the judgment of the board, are unable to provide the same; such textbooks shall be those adopted by the state Board of Education.
§18-5-17. Compulsory Preenrollment Hearing, Vision and Speech and Language Testing; Developmental Screening for Children Under Compulsory School Age
(a) All children entering public school for the first time in this state shall be given prior to their enrollments screening tests to determine if they might have vision or hearing impairments or speech and language disabilities. County boards of education may provide, upon request, such screening tests to all children entering nonpublic school. County […]
§18-5-18. Kindergarten Programs
(a) County boards shall provide kindergarten programs for all children who have attained the age of five prior to September 1 of the school year in which the pupil enters the kindergarten program and may, pursuant to the provisions of section forty-four of this article, establish kindergarten programs designed for children below the age of […]
§18-5-18a. Maximum Teacher-Pupil Ratio
(a) County boards of education shall provide sufficient personnel, equipment, and facilities as will ensure that each first through sixth grade classroom, or classrooms having two or more grades that include one or more of the first through sixth grades shall not have more than 25 pupils for each teacher of the grade or grades […]
§18-5-18b. School Counselors in Public Schools
(a) A school counselor means a professional educator who holds a valid school counselors certificate in accordance with §18A-1-1 of this code. (b) Each county board shall provide counseling services for each pupil enrolled in the public schools of the county. (c) The school counselor shall work with individual pupils and groups of pupils in […]
§18-5-18c. Early Childhood Programs; Eligibility and Standards for Placement; Guidelines and Criteria
County boards shall provide by the school year one thousand nine hundred eighty-nine–ninety, and continuing thereafter, programs and instructional procedures that recognize the variability in achievement, development, and background experience of the early childhood years. Such programs and instructional procedures may include, but shall not be limited to, developmental kindergarten, developmental first grade, early first […]