Tennessee § 49-50-1003 - Allocation of appropriations.
Full text of Tennessee Tennessee Code Annotated § 49-50-1003 — Allocation of appropriations., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 49-50-1003. Allocation of appropriations.
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 West Tennessee School for the Deaf, the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute, and other special schools operated by the department of education as may hereafter be created shall be administered and expended under budgets approved by the department of education. The schools referenced in subsection (a) may award scholarships for the school's graduates. The graduates must be selected by the respective director of schools under the approval of the commissioner. The department shall obligate and expend appropriations for the capital improvement of the state special schools. The salary schedules for teachers and other professional personnel in the state special schools must be reasonably comparable to those currently in effect in the LEAs where the respective institution is located, but the salaries must 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; 2019, ch. 107, § 40. Compiler's Notes. Acts 2003, ch. 355, § 66 provided that no expenditure of public funds pursuant to the act shall be made in violation of the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 2000 d.
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