school safety

Education

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.

September 12, 2025

$9.8 billion education budget approved by Senate committee

Alabama Senate committee approves major education budget, supplemental funding and RAISE Act.

April 10, 2025

School threats are a serious matter and should be treated as such

Accountability is a lesson that young people must learn, and parents are ultimately responsible for monitoring their child’s behavior.

February 25, 2025

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.

October 25, 2023

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.

March 30, 2023

What 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.

October 4, 2022

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

December 10, 2019

How we can make our schools safer

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

April 12, 2018