Alabama Board of Education outlines key budget asks ahead of FY27
Alabama education officials outlined FY 2027 budget priorities at their monthly meeting ahead of the budget vote next month.
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$9.8 billion education budget approved by Senate committee
Alabama Senate committee approves major education budget, supplemental funding and RAISE Act.
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Accountability is a lesson that young people must learn, and parents are ultimately responsible for monitoring their child’s behavior.
Alabama considers school safety legislation
Alabama lawmakers are considering legislation that would allocate funding to public schools for emergency response technology.
February 13, 2025
House school safety commission starts new discussion at speaker’s behest
The commission is being revived after being created in 2016 and making recommendations to the Legislature in 2018.
K9 Protection Group launches “Paws on Patrol” to make schools in Alabama, US safer
The new program aims to address increased gun violence in America’s classrooms.
July 14, 2023
Bill to prohibit guns on school grounds sent to subcommittee
Currently, a person can take a concealed pistol onto school grounds as long as they have a permit.
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See recent postsWhat exactly do Trussville City Schools parents want?
Hewitt-Trussville High School Principal Tim Salem exercised a measure of judgment and grace, and for that, he should be thanked.
McCutcheon says that legislature will address rural healthcare
Wednesday, Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) told a gathering of the Alabama County Commissioners Association in Auburn that the Alabama legislature will likely work on addressing rural healthcare in the 2020 legislative session. McCutcheon said that the legislature is “Working on rural healthcare,” and is looking at rural clinics. “We need to provide … Continued
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Education is the most important service our government provides, and one of the top issues impacting education is school safety. Unfortunately, it seems like every conversation about school safety always turns into a debate about guns, and nothing ever gets done. But there are a lot of things we can – and should – be … Continued