Alabama State Data:
Last updated: 2021
Alabama law allows for charter schools be provided the same access as other public schools to the Public School and College Authority, which issues Capital Improvement Pool Bonds, as periodically designated by the Alabama Legislature, from which public school capital improvement projects are granted funding. The law provides that the PSCA and the department shall adopt and maintain a policy to ensure that public charter schools receive access to equitable facilities funding under the program. Projects funded in whole, or in part, by the Alabama Public School and College Authority involve co-ownership and possible divisions of funding and payments. Alabama law provides that 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. It defines an 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. It requires the department to 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. Alabama law allows for charter schools to be included in issuance of Capital Improvement Pool Bonds, as periodically designated by the Alabama Legislature, through the Public School and College Authority.
– Public School and College Authority
Public Charters on Tribal Lands or Serving a Significant Proportion of Native Students:
Source: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (2018)