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5	5		By Senators Reed, Livingston, Waggoner, Albritton, Jones,
6	6		Barfoot, Butler, Givhan, Bell, Kitchens, Orr, Chambliss,
7	7		Allen, Price, Roberts, Weaver, Williams, Hovey, Carnley,
8	8		Sessions, Shelnutt, Kelley, Chesteen, Elliott, Gudger, Stutts,
9	9		Melson
10	10		RFD: Education Policy
11	11		First Read: 06-Feb-24
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23	23		A BILL
24	24		TO BE ENTITLED
25	25		AN ACT
26	26		Relating to public preK-12 education; to require the
27	27		posting of classroom curricula on the website of the school;
28	28		to permit parents or guardians of enrolled students, upon
29	29		request, to request information on instructional and
30	30		supplemental materials used in the classroom; to provide a
31	31		complaint process; and to provide for the reporting of the
32	32		number of complaints to the State Superintendent of Education
33	33		and the Legislature.
34	34		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
35	35		Section 1. (a) At the beginning of each school year,
36	36		and no later than 30 calendar days after a new or revised
37	37		curriculum is adopted, the local superintendent of education
38	38		and local board of education shall verify that each school
39	39		under the jurisdiction of the board has posted current adopted
40	40		curricula for each class on the website of the school. Access
41	41		to the online curricula shall be made available to students,
42	42		parents, or guardians of enrolled students through the school
43	43		website. If a school has no accessible website, the curricula
44	44		shall be posted on the website of the local board of education
45	45		or the State Department of Education.
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75	75		or the State Department of Education.
76	76		(b) Each classroom teacher shall comply with the
77		-	request of any parent or guardian by providing a ~~detailed~~
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80		-	education, supplementary instructional materials in the
	77	+	request of any parent, custodian, or guardian by providing a
	78	+	detailed summary, by email, telephone, or other electronic
	79	+	means, of instructional materials adopted by the local board
	80	+	of education, supplementary instructional materials in the
81	81		classroom that were not adopted by the local board of
82	82		education, and books in the classroom that are available for
83	83		students to read, subject to all of the following:
84	84		(1) Only the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in
85	85		the class may make a request pursuant to this subsection.
86	86		(2) If a parent or guardian would like further
87	87		information regarding how the instructional materials relate
88	88		to the content standards adopted by the State Board of
89	89		Education or to physically examine any instructional materials
90	90		used in the classroom, the parent or guardian may request that
91	91		the local board of educational allow that examination at the
92	92		next work session of the board. The board shall notify the
93	93		parent or guardian and the teacher of the issues involved and
94	94		the date and time of the next work session.
95	95		(c) For any class in which reading books is required,
96	96		the classroom teacher shall include the titles of the books on
97	97		a class syllabus. Upon the request of the parent or guardian
98	98		of a child enrolled in the class, the classroom teacher shall
99	99		make the syllabus available to the parent or guardian.
100	100		(d) If a classroom teacher fails to comply with this
101	101		section, the parent or guardian may file a complaint with the
102	102		local superintendent of education on a form developed and
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133	133		provided by the local superintendent of education. If the
134	134		complaint is not resolved by the local superintendent of
135	135		education within 10 school days, the parent or guardian may
136	136		file a complaint with the State Superintendent of Education,
137	137		or his or her designee. The State Superintendent of Education
138	138		shall make a form available for parents or guardians to file a
139	139		complaint pursuant to this subsection.
140	140		(e)(1) On or before September 1 annually, each local
141	141		superintendent of education shall report the number of
142	142		complaints filed with him or her during the previous school
143	143		year to the State Superintendent of Education. On or before
144	144		October 1 annually, the State Superintendent of Education
145	145		shall report the total number of complaints filed during the
146	146		previous school year, statewide and by county, to the Chairs
147	147		of the Senate Education Policy Committee and the House of
148	148		Representatives Education Policy Committee.
149	149		(2) Any complaint filed by a parent or guardian
150		-	pursuant to this section is an educational record of the
151		-	student on whose behalf the complaint was filed and shall not
152		-	be released or viewed, except as provided in this section and
153		-	where the release or viewing is otherwise consistent with the
154		-	federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974
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	150	+	pursuant to this act is an educational record of the student
	151	+	on whose behalf the complaint was filed.
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	177	+	Read for the first time and referred
	178	+	to the Senate committee on Education
	179	+	Policy
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	181	+	Read for the second time and placed
	182	+	on the calendar:
	183	+	0 amendments
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	185	+	Read for the third time and passed
	186	+	as amended
	187	+	Yeas 35
	188	+	Nays 0
	189	+	Abstains 0
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	191	+	Patrick Harris,
	192	+	Secretary.
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185		-	President and Presiding Officer of the Senate
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187		-	Speaker of the House of Representatives
188		-	SB48
189		-	Senate 08-Feb-24
190		-	I hereby certify that the within Act originated in and passed
191		-	the Senate, as amended.
192		-	Patrick Harris,
193		-	Secretary.
194		-	House of Representatives
195		-	Amended and passed: 07-Mar-24
196		-	Senate concurred in House amendment 19-Mar-24
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