Brian Lyman MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama voters Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that could lead to the removal of racist language from the state Constitution. As of 8:48 a.m. Wednesday, Amendment 4 had 1,169,206 yes votes (67%) in incomplete, unofficial returns. About 585,384 Alabamians (33%) voted against the measure, a symbolic measure that proponents said would allow the state…
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Alabama’s best high schools, middle schools and elementary schools
Posted Oct 16, 2020 By Leada Gore A new list highlights Alabama’s best high, middle and elementary schools. Ranking site Niche is out with its list of best public schools in the state. The rankings are based on state test scores, college readiness, graduation rates, SAT/ACT scores and teacher quality. You can see more on how these rankings…
Alabama statewide school COVID tracker to debut Oct. 30; Here’s how it works
Updated Oct 28, 2020; Posted Oct 27, 2020 By Trisha Powell Crain Alabamians anxious to get a look at the prevalence of COVID-19 among students, teachers, and staff in schools statewide will get their chance on Friday. The dashboard, in the works since late August, will be published on the Alabama Department of Public Health website and will…
Alabama teacher speaks out against unsafe conditions and schools reopening
Emma Arceneaux November 6, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic continues to spread throughout Alabama, with the past two weeks seeing roughly 1,600 new cases per day and a test positivity rate of 22.6 percent. Since the start of the pandemic, 198,000 people have been infected and 3,006 have died. Under these conditions, educators are increasingly enraged…
Public charter school geared toward LGBTQ youth will open in 2021
By Angel Coker – Banking and Legal Reporter, Birmingham Business Journal Nov 5, 2020, 3:54pm EST A new charter school geared toward LGBTQ youth is coming to Birmingham in the fall of 2021. The Alabama Public Charter School Commission has granted a public-school charter to the Magic City Acceptance Academy. The commission previously denied an appeal for the…
Tax increase for Montgomery Public Schools is a challenge well met, and a cause for new hope
On September 11, 2015, I spoke to the Montgomery Lions Club about a book on the founding of Lee High School, which I’d co-authored with several River Region educators, including retired Superintendent of Education Clinton Carter and former Trinity School Head Kerry Palmer, now dean of education at Troy University. Since I’m a product of…
Alabama’s K-12 schools COVID-19 dashboard now online
by JACK HELEAN | Friday, October 30th MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WBMA) — Alabama’s new digital COVID-19 dashboard for tracking COVID-19 cases across K-12 public schools went online Friday afternoon. The dashboard works much like the health department’s statewide COVID-19 dashboard and was built and designed by the same team at ADPH in partnership with the Alabama Department of…
700 virus cases reported last week in Alabama public schools
by Kim Chandler, November 1st 2020 MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — Alabama public schools reported 723 cases of COVID-19 among students, teachers and employees in the last week, according to a new state dashboard that debuted Friday. It shows the number of cases reported by school systems to the state, but not numbers by individual schools. Some school…
America’s segregated schools: We can’t live together until we learn together
The main reason school districts have been gerrymandered to perpetuate segregation is the tacit, and at times explicit, approval of people of means. Stefan Lallinger June 23, 2020 Would George Floyd be alive today had he and Derek Chauvin grown up together and attended the same schools? It’s an impossible question to answer, but it’s an…
Coronavirus has changed school forever, let’s make it an improvement
It’s time to re-imagine public education not just to face the pandemic, but to eliminate racial and economic inequities we’ve long known about Arne Duncan and Rey SaldañaOpinion contributors As an unprecedented academic year grinds to an end, with schools shuttered and millions of children learning remotely in every state, education leaders face the daunting…
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