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Finance and Taxation Education Committee briefed on state program to improve literacy

Alabama Superintendent of Education Dr. Eric Mackey spoke to the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee. Mackey addressed the committee on the state department of education’s efforts on improving literacy. We have a literacy task force,” Mackey said. “We are very proud and happy to have the Literacy Act.” “A task force is meeting,” Mackey … Continued
February 13, 2020

New report offers advice for fixing state’s charter school issues

Local school boards should have more authority in approving proposed charter schools and parents of students attending the charters should have a larger role on the schools’ governing boards.  Those were two of the suggestions contained within a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which reviewed problems with Alabama’s charter school law and the … Continued
February 6, 2020

Alabama Public Charter School Commission could revoke Woodland Prep charter

The Alabama Public Charter School Commission yesterday voted to deny a request by Woodland Prep officials to extend the deadline to obtain a certificate of occupancy for the school in Washington County near Mobile.  This denial could begin  the process of revoking the school’s charter. The charter school was initially approved in 2018.  The Woodland … Continued
February 4, 2020

Alabama Charter School Commission finally did its job

Finally, the Alabama Charter School Commission is doing its job.  On Monday, the Commission voted to revoke the charter for Woodland Prep, the beleaguered charter school in Washington County, and it took steps to force LEAD Academy, the steadily failing charter in Montgomery, to provide the Commission with necessary information to assure it is operating … Continued
February 4, 2020

Praise The Lord. Woodland Prep gets bad news from charter commission

Finally.  Thankfully.  Mercifully. The colossal mishmash of an attempt to open a charter school in Washington County has now been taken off of life support and left to flop, flounder and gasp its last breath by the state Charter School Commission. The application to open Woodland Prep was approved in May 2018 by the commission … Continued
February 4, 2020

SPLC sues Montgomery County Board of Education for expulsion of two students after Lee High shooting

The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a pair of lawsuits against the Montgomery County Board of Education, alleging that the district violated two students’ rights to due process before expelling them.  The SPLC says two students were unjustly expelled after a shooting at Robert E. Lee High School in February 2019 where a 17-year-old … Continued
January 23, 2020

Taylor reports raising nearly $200,000 during the Fourth Quarter

Monday, Second Congressional District candidate Jessica Taylor (R) announced that her campaign has raising over $200,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019 after announcing her candidacy in late October. Taylor said that, not a single dollar of the funds raised were from loans by the candidate. “It is humbling to have received so much support … Continued
January 15, 2020

Gov. Kay Ivey announces $33 million grant for Early Childhood Education

Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced that the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education was awarded $33 million by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education for a renewal of Alabama’s Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) initiative over the next three years. “Alabama’s youngest citizens are the … Continued
December 20, 2019

Doug Jones’s funding for HBCUs signed into law

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed into law the FUTURE Act, which restores millions in federal funding to historically black Universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs). U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala, applauded the Senate for passing his bipartisan legislation on Dec. 10 to refund the minorty-serving schools. “This day has been more than a … Continued
December 20, 2019

Problems continue for Montgomery’s first charter school

Montgomery’s first charter school remains a first-rate mess.  As former LEAD Academy principal Nichole Ivey-Price prepares for another hearing in her ongoing wrongful termination lawsuit against the charter school, a number of current and former LEAD employees have told APR that the environment at the school remains one of near-chaos.  Perhaps most surprising, the employees … Continued
December 17, 2019