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Are You Ready To Join The Battle To Save Our Schools?

By Larry Lee Education Matters For reasons yet to be determined, there is a concerted effort to destroy our public schools. For months now Alabama public education has been the target of bad legislation, outright lies, out-of-state money trying to buy state school board and legislative seats and an attempt to manipulate the search for … Continued
November 10, 2016

Dial Committee Gets To Work

By Larry Lee Education Matters The committee created by Senators Gerald Dial and Quinton Ross to find out how anonymous info given to the state school board made its way into public heard from their first “witnesses” earlier today. Senator Dial stressed again that the legislature has gone to great lengths to make sure anonymous … Continued
November 4, 2016

Fact Checking State School Board Member

By Larry Lee Education Matters “Hyperbole” should be the middle name of most all politicians. They are masters of embellishment, of overstatement, of stretching the truth and tall tales both big and small. As we’ve all be told from birth, “take it with a grain of salt” is super advice when listening to a politician … Continued
October 28, 2016

Harvard University Wants To Be Top Football Team In Nation

By Larry Lee Education Matters In a surprise announcement, Harvard University President Drew Faust declares that she is turning her attention to making sure the school’s football team wins a national championship within five years. Massachusetts Republican Governor, Charlie Baker, a Harvard alum, joined President Faust for the announcement. “We have never had a national … Continued
October 17, 2016

Senator Dial Takes Action

By Larry Lee Education Matters Unbelievable as it may seem, according to Alabama law, the requirements for someone to be the superintendent of a local school system are much tougher than those to be state superintendent, which is about like saying an operating room nurse needs more training than the surgeon she is assisting. Alabama … Continued
October 11, 2016

Storm Clouds Gather Over State School Board

By Larry Lee Education Matters Most educators agree that the recent process the state school board went through to replace state superintendent Tommy Bice was more like an episode of the Keystone Kops than anything else. During my career I had five jobs where I reported to a board of directors. Thank goodness they all … Continued
October 7, 2016

BCA Encourages People To Give Money For Private School Vouchers Instead Of Paying State Income Tax

By Larry Lee Education Matters When attendees at a recent Business Council of Alabama conference at Point Clear opened their “goody” bags, one of their treats was a flier asking “Do you pay Alabama income tax?” Open the flier and readers were told to “redirect your tax liability and provide a scholarship.” This not-so-subtle message … Continued
October 3, 2016

Rep. Collins Should Read the Code

By Larry Lee Education Matters Back in 2012 state representative Terri Collins of Decatur got legislation passed that requires all schools in the state to receive a letter grade of A through F. And after spending thousands of hours and thousands of dollars trying to come up with some decent way to measure all the … Continued
September 22, 2016

Required Reading – Education Matters

By Larry Lee The old car headed south out of Montgomery on a familiar route down I-65. Thirty minutes to Ft. Deposit, 45 minutes to Greenville, 60 minutes to Georgiana, 75 minutes to Evergreen. Then right on U.S. 84, which begins on the Georgia coast and ends in west Texas. Through Belleville and Repton. By … Continued
September 1, 2016