Current through the 2024 Regular Session.
Section 16-6F-11 - Public School and College Authority funding; local school system facilities and land(a) Access to Alabama Public School and College Authority (PSCA) funds. (1) Public charter schools shall have the same rights and access to PSCA funding opportunities as non-charter public schools.(2) The PSCA and the department shall adopt and maintain a policy to ensure that public charter schools receive access to equitable facilities funding.(b) Access to local school system facilities and land. (1) A public charter school shall have a right of first refusal to purchase or lease at or below fair market value a closed or unused public school facility or property located in a school system from which it draws its students if the school system decides to sell or lease the public school facility or property.(2) Unused facility means a school building or other local board of education owned building that is or could be appropriate for school use, in which more than 60 percent of the building is not being used for direct student instruction or critical administration purposes and for which no offer to purchase has been executed.(3) The department shall publish the names and addresses of unused facilities on its website in a list that is searchable at least by each facility's name and address. This list shall be updated at least once a year by May 1.Ala. Code § 16-6F-11 (1975)
Added by Act 2015-3,§ 11, eff. 3/19/2015.