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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The public has a few weeks left to review proposed K-12 social studies and arts textbooks before the Alabama Board of Education votes on which to approve for statewide use. The public review period runs through Nov. 12.
