Birmingham nonprofit seeks funding for mobile hearing lab for children
The Woolley Institute for Spoken Language hopes to expand services for children with hearing loss in rural areas.
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Quinton Ross: What should we tell our youth on the death of George Floyd?
The following is Alabama State University President Quinton T. Ross Jr.’s statement in full on the death of George Floyd. For the past few days, I, like many others have been viewing through the lens of the media, the reaction of our country to the deplorable and senseless death of yet another defenseless black person … Continued
Alabama doctors report suspected cases of COVID-19 related illness in children
The state health officer said Friday that several doctors in Alabama have called the Department of Public Health about possible cases of the mysterious Kawasaki-like inflammatory illness in children related to COVID-19. So far, the state health department has not officially confirmed any cases of the illness, but Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer, … Continued
Pandemic EBT benefits begin rolling out to eligible Alabama students
The Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) announced on Wednesday that Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) benefits were received by more than 115,000 Alabama households over the weekend in Phase 1 of the multi-phase rollout. P-EBT benefits are being provided to households that have children in grades K-12 who have temporarily lost access to free or reduced-price school … Continued
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See recent postsInstead of fixing a school for military kids, how about just fixing the schools for all kids?
The education of police officers’ kids isn’t worth any extra effort. Same for the kids of nurses and firefighters. Ditto for the kids of preachers and social workers. No, in the eyes of the Republican-led Alabama Legislature, the children of this state get what they get and lawmakers aren’t going to go out of their … Continued
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See recent postsAmong the prefiled GOP garbage, there is one good bill
Thank you, Randy Wood. Given the current race to the bottom that is occurring within the Republican primary for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, and given the various pandering bills that have been prefiled and those that are still to come, I was starting to wonder if there was a single GOP lawmaker left in this … Continued
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See recent postsFatherhood: Three-point job description
As we approached the odometer turning over another year in our life, it is a reasonable response to review our notable benchmarks from last year and think about the challenges and summits to conquer in the upcoming year. While there are innumerable final medals we hope to pin on our chest, when we exchange the … Continued
Nearly a third of all children living in rural Alabama suffer food insecurity
Hunger and food insecurity continue to plague Alabama’s children. In some countries, 30 percent of the state’s most vulnerable citizens, its children, suffer food insecurity according to Urban.org. Nearly a third of Alabama’s children in some counties go to bed hungry, wake up hungry and live their lives without adequate food, a cycle that repeats … Continued
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See recent postsMontgomery’s first charter school is failing because the laws weren’t followed
Charter schools are not all bad. Let’s get that out of the way right at the top. There are charter schools out there that do a wonderful job educating children and filling a need that isn’t being met by the local public school system. That was sort of the goal of charter schools when they … Continued
AG Marshall supports rollbacks on school lunch nutrition
Many children in Alabama get less healthy school lunches after the Trump administration’s rollback of rules that had set nutritional standards. Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall favors lower standards for the state’s school children’s lunches, as well. Meanwhile, Alabama’s children are ranked 9th highest in rates of obesity in the nation. Advocates for healthier lunches … Continued