In its last meeting before the 2025 legislative session, the Alabama Veterans Mental Health Steering Committee approved three preliminary recommendations they want lawmakers to adopt this year.
Eric Mackey has long argued that students should not use cell phones in school, pointing to schools with bans that have reported significant improvements in behavior and academics.
Alabama Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur, has reintroduced a bill that would establish a tax credit program that could provide up to $30 million a year to the state’s struggling rural hospitals.
While Alabama was slow to embrace school choice, in the past decade, lawmakers have expanded choices beyond traditional public, private and homeschool options to multiple choices among programs, offering families greater flexibility.
Tuberville called on Brooke Rollins and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ensure farmers get the support they need during Thursday’s nomination hearing in the Senate Agriculture Committee.
“Keeping the current model would be short-sighted,” House Education Budget Chair Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, said.
Members of the Alabama Blockchain Study Commission agreed recently the state should work toward becoming among the most cryptocurrency and blockchain-friendly states in the nation.
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.
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