Alabama Ahead Act

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, March 3, the Alabama Senate voted to pass the Wireless Infrastructure Renovation for Education Act, HB41, which is more commonly known as the “WIRED Act”. The legislation would provide wireless broadband access in all of the state’s K-12 public schools. The legislation was introduced in the Senate … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Tuesday, February 23, the Alabama House of Representative voted to pass the Wireless Infrastructure Renovation for Education Act, which is more commonly known as the “WIRED Act” or the Alabama Ahead Act. The legislation would provide wireless broadband access in all of the state’s K-12 public schools. The … Continued

    By Bill BrittAlabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Serving in his first term in the State Senate, Sen. Dr. Jim McClendon has a unique perspective on how the mechanics of the process actually works. Elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 2002, he has served in the minority and the supermajority. He has chaired some … Continued

  By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Thursday, May 28 SB1, the Alabama Ahead Act passed the Alabama House of Representatives.  The bill would partner with the federal government on obtaining technology grants so that all of Alabama’s public school children will have access to wireless access to the internet as well as text books … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY–Wednesday, Governor Robert Bentley signed the Alabama Ahead Act into law.  The measure would create a $100 million bond issue that would be used to buy e-textbook computers for students in Alabama’s public high schools.  The new electronic devices would replace the heavy stack of clunky text books that … Continued

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter For decades, Alabama students have lugged around a backpack filled with their Biology textbook, their American History textbook, their English text book, a foreign language text book, textbooks for elective, spiral notebooks, and often workbooks associated with those big heavy hardback texts. That may be changing. Alabama Senator Gerald … Continued