By Trisha Powell Crain Thirty-nine positions were cut from the Alabama Department of Education in the reorganization of that agency, and some employees took “substantial” cuts in salaries, according to information Interim State Superintendent Ed Richardson shared with the Alabama Board of Education at Thursday’s work session. The agency came under fire last year after concerns over…
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DeVos rips Oklahoma teachers over strike: ‘Serve the students’
BY MORGAN GSTALTER – 04/09/18 10:43 AM EDT Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized Oklahoma teachers who are on strike over school funding cuts, telling them to “serve the students,” according to the Dallas Morning News. “I think about the kids,” DeVos said last week while touring a Dallas middle school. “I think we need to stay focused on what’s right for kids. And…
Trump and DeVos Continue to Undermine Public Education with Their Proposed Fiscal Year 2019 Budget
By Stephenie Johnson, Neil Campbell, and Scott Sargrad Posted on February 12, 2018, 2:50 pm Today, President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos released their proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year. The Trump administration’s budget proposal for this year makes strikingly similar drastic cuts to the administration’s fiscal year 2018 proposal, which represented the most devastating funding cuts to…
Alabama education chief calls out schools for not preparing graduates
By Trisha Powell Crain Updated Mar 26, 1:11 PM; Posted Mar 26, 1:11 PM tcrain@al.com Alabama interim state superintendent Dr. Ed Richardson has called out more than 150 schools for not preparing their high school graduates to either go to college or begin a successful path to a career. In a strongly-worded memo to superintendents statewide last week, Richardson wrote, “This is…
No Child Left Behind: An Overview
By Alyson Klein (@politicsk12) The No Child Left Behind law—the 2002 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—effectively scaled up the federal role in holding schools accountable for student outcomes. In December 2015, Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act to replace NCLB. ESSA moved in the opposite direction—it seeks to pare back the federal role…
Alabama Will Get A New List of “Failing” Schools This Fall (2013)
August 11, 2013 Challen Stephens | cstephens@al.com Alabama will be facing a new list of “failing” schools before the year is out, as the test scores from last spring are due to be released some time this fall. The new round of test data will cause the state to recalculate the scores that led…
83% of Alabama Schools Make AYP Sept. 2008- {#iBelieve}
State Experiences 18 percent Decrease in High-Poverty schools needing improvement. THE ACHIEVEMENT REQUIREMENTS continue to rise and Alabama’s public schools respond to the challenge. In its fifth year of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) implementation, most Alabama schools continue to increase student performance and move toward reaching the ultimate goal of 100 percent student proficiency as…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 