Takeaways from Alabama’s 2025 school report cards
November 17, 2025
Alabama’s newest school report cards – state and federal – came out Thursday, offering a snapshot that is equal parts progress report and warning sign.
Making the grade: Alabama schools improve overall grade
November 14, 2025
Alabama schools improved their overall grade to 87 points out of 100 available on both state and federal report cards for the 2024-25 school year, according to preliminary data presented to state board of education members Nov. 13.
State’s $3B in education reserves reflect lessons from Great Recession
November 13, 2025
More than a dozen years after the Great Recession forced painful cuts across Alabama’s schools, state lawmakers determined not to repeat them have built up what will soon be $3 billion in reserves to protect against another downturn.
‘Wave of closures’: Some preschools closing as shutdown continues
November 3, 2025
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.
Alabama schools prepping for hungry students
October 31, 2025
With federal SNAP benefits set to pause starting Saturday for an estimated 750,000 Alabamians — including about 350,000 children — school leaders are watching closely.
Food banks expect demand of ‘unprecedented’ scale as SNAP benefits halt
October 29, 2025
The suspension of food assistance during the government shutdown will leave hundreds of thousands of Alabamians in the lurch. Food banks are preparing to step in as they can.
Legislators praise reduction in overdoses, credit use of opioid settlement funds
October 28, 2025
House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter and Senate President Pro Tem Garlan Gudger are lauding a new report showing drug overdoses in Alabama have fallen by 30% over the last year.
‘Never seen anything like this’: Direct Admission Initiative gives high school seniors new kind of hope
October 27, 2025
At B.C. Rain High School in Mobile, the news didn’t come all at once. Students trickled into the counselors’ office to say the words counselors Niki Dailey and Demetria Smith will never forget: I got in.
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