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State schools chief backtracks, Montgomery schools mess grows

Never mind. That’s essentially what state schools superintendent Eric Mackey told parents, business leaders, school system employees and everyone else on Tuesday, telling the Montgomery Advertiser that he — the top executive in all of Alabama public education — might have been mistaken when he talked about the effects of Montgomery’s public schools potentially losing … Continued
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June 14, 2018
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The true story of the Montgomery school mess, Part I

In 2012, while working for the local newspaper, I broke the story of massive grade changing taking place within the Montgomery County school system. At the direction of school administrators, who were themselves receiving direction from the central office, students who were failing courses were being shuffled through “credit recovery” courses, where they earned better … Continued
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June 1, 2018
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Why is the state takeover of Montgomery’s schools so shady?

There was much hand-wringing inside the Gordon Persons Building in downtown Montgomery on Wednesday, as interim state superintendent Ed Richardson and — for some reason not fully explained — Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange held a press conference to discuss the “dire state” of Montgomery’s public schools. They might as well have been selling special skillets … Continued
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April 12, 2018

Mayor: Suspended judge was disadvantaged by punishment

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange said Thursday that suspended Municipal Court judge Lester Hayes had been “disadvantaged” by his suspension from the bench for locking up indigent defendants, which was one reason the City of Montgomery signed Hayes to a consulting contract. “He couldn’t work as a judge, he couldn’t … Continued
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January 26, 2017

ADPH can’t build on $625,000 Montgomery property

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama Department of Public Health is apparently stuck with an unusable, 25-acre, $625,000 piece of Montgomery property after discovering the presence of several landfill trenches that would dramatically increase the costs to build a new lab at the site. The trenches were part of a landfill used by … Continued
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December 1, 2016