49-50-1003 - Allocation of appropriations. - Tennessee Statutes

49-50-1003. Allocation of appropriations.

(a)  The several appropriations of state funds annually made for the operation and maintenance of the Tennessee School for the Blind, the Tennessee School for the Deaf, the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute and other special schools operated by the state board as may hereafter be created shall be administered and expended under budgets approved by the state board.

(b)  (1)  The schools, except for the York Institute, may allocate from their several appropriations and expendable receipts amounts that are recommended by their respective superintendents and approved by the state board for the purposes of providing scholarships for their graduates and for upgrading the training of their faculties.

     (2)  The sums shall be used to provide scholarships for those graduates who meet the qualifications prescribed by the state board, pursuant to law, and to upgrade the training of the faculty of the schools under policies adopted by the state board.

     (3)  The graduates, or persons otherwise legally eligible, shall be selected by the commissioner and the superintendents of the respective schools.

     (4)  The upgrading of the training of the faculties shall be administered by the superintendents of the respective schools under the approval of the commissioner.

(c)  Appropriations for the capital improvement of these schools shall be obligated and expended by the state board through its chair.

(d)  The salary schedules for teachers and other professional personnel in these schools shall be reasonably comparable to those currently in effect in the LEAs where the respective institution is located, but the salaries shall be paid solely out of the state appropriations made to the respective institutions.

[Acts 1977, ch. 289, § 17; T.C.A., § 49-621; Acts 2003, ch. 355, § 30.]