Of the 4,800 third graders needing improvement, more than 3,000 retested over the summer, and nearly half of them reached the benchmark score. This left 1,700 students still falling short of sufficiency.
Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter, R-Rainsville, said a main priority of the 2025 legislative session will be a crime bill package.
Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels’ proposed legislation will also require a comprehensive economic study of the cut, looking at its direct and indirect impacts and revenues.
When Alabama lawmakers convene for the 2025 legislative session on Feb. 4, they’ll have $525 million in surplus Education Trust Fund tax revenue to allocate.
Alabama’s stalled rollout of medical marijuana, which has been held up in court for well over a year due to litigation from companies denied licenses, may come to a resolution as soon as a few weeks …
Alabama high school students may soon be required to learn about violence prevention, conflict resolution and mediation before graduating if a bill proposed by Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, becomes law.
Alabama Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, is hoping to increase penalties for Alabamians who threaten to release sexually explicit material of another person as means of extortion, a practice sometimes referred to as “revenge pornography.”
The Alabama Department of Human Resources is no longer restoring Alabamians’ stolen food stamps after Congress, in its stopgap spending bill signed by President Joe Biden last week …
