Alabama

Title 16. Education
Chapter 35. State Courses of Study Committee
Code of Alabama § 16-35-5 (2005) – Courses required

In every elementary school in the state there shall be taught reading, spelling and writing, arithmetic, oral and written English, geography, history of the United States and Alabama, elementary science, health education, physical education and such other studies as may be prescribed by the State Board of Education.

Chapter 6B. Education Accountability Plan
Code of Alabama § 16-6B-2 (2005) – Generally

…The State Board of Education shall establish a rigorous and meaningful core curriculum including but not limited to the following courses for grades nine through twelve in public schools to be phased in beginning with students entering ninth grade in the 1996-97 scholastic year…

(4) Four years (equivalent of four credit units) of social studies with an emphasis on history, music history, fine arts history, geography, economics and political science. History courses shall include material on the history of the United States and the Constitution of the United States. The Legislature further requires that the curriculum content of American history shall include the teaching of important historical documents including the Constitution of the United States, The Declaration of Independence, The Emancipation Proclamation, The Federalist Papers, and other such documents important to the history and heritage of the United States.

[This statute was located on July 6, 2005 and may have been modified or amended since that date.]