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Alabama’s teachers are standing tall with return to classroom instruction

All of the personality traits, values, and life lessons that we carry with us as adults were shaped and instilled in us by the people we encountered in childhood. For many, the strongest influences can from our schoolteachers, who opened new worlds of knowledge and taught us skills that remain with us today. Consider for … Continued
August 4, 2020

How a group of concerned citizens killed a bad charter school

A bad charter school died in Alabama on Tuesday.  For that, we should all cheer. For that, we should thank Betty Brackin and the concerned parents, teachers and citizens of Washington County.  Because the system that was supposed to provide checks and balances and weed out bad charter schools and bad actors failed miserably. Instead, … Continued
June 10, 2020

Doug Jones, Lisa Murkowski call for increased federal investment in education

Thursday, Senators Doug Jones (D-Alabama) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) led a group of their colleagues in urging Senate leadership to include robust funding for America’s schools, educators, and students in the next round of COVID-19 relief funding. “It is not just teachers who will be impacted by these shrinking education budgets,” Jones and the other … Continued
May 20, 2020

Woodland Prep. Fake charter school lives on

Drive by any school in Alabama (during more normal times) and what do you expect to find?  Classrooms.  Students.  Teachers. Textbooks.  Computers.  A curriculum.  Someone in charge. But nearly two years after the Alabama charter school commission gave the go ahead to Woodland Prep charter in Washington County there is no school facility, no classrooms, … Continued
April 14, 2020

Alabama Republicans praise Ivey’s State of the State speech

Tuesday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) laid out an ambitious agenda in her annual State of the State Address that includes: building three new prisons, a three percent teacher pay raise, a two percent state employee pay raise, mental health crisis centers, broadband expansion, hiring more state troopers, workforce development, a governor’s study group on … Continued
February 5, 2020

Kentucky elections should be a wake-up call for Alabama teachers

There is a Democrat in the Kentucky’s governor’s mansion.  Or there will be in a few weeks.  Kentucky voters shocked the country on Tuesday, giving Democrat Andy Beshear a slim victory over incumbent Matt Bevin in the governor’s race. It was a devastating result for Donald Trump, who visited the state in recent days to … Continued
November 6, 2019

‘Craziness’: How Montgomery’s first charter school has devolved into chaos in less than six weeks

LEAD Academy, Montgomery’s first charter school, has been a chaotic mess since it opened less than six weeks ago, with staffing shortages leaving more than 70 students crammed into one class, angry teachers left without necessary supplies, student shortages threatening the school, extensive discipline issues and an ongoing fight between staff and the LEAD board … Continued
October 1, 2019

Alabama picked for World Vision distribution center

Evangelist Scott Dawson doesn’t want to see teachers spend their own money to make sure their students don’t go without, so he’s doing something about it.  During the month of August more than 4,000 low-income public school children across central Alabama will be getting school supplies donated through a partnership between local churches and the … Continued
August 7, 2019