Alabama has been awarded $12.5 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to expand apprenticeship programs that give young people more opportunities to train for in-demand jobs. Colorado received the same amount.
The Alabama Public Library Service Board of Directors is considering a proposed rule change that expands the existing requirement for youth sections to be free of “material deemed inappropriate for children.”
The decline in Alabama’s public school enrollment is worse than originally thought.
A new, private non-profit group is hoping to use members’ collective expertise to find funding and sustainability for Alabama’s rural hospitals.
Alabama leaders are partnering with Birmingham-based nonprofit Ed Farm and Apple on a state-funded $16 million initiative to expand digital learning and workforce training in some of the state’s most rural communities.
In the first year of Alabama’s CHOOSE Act, a small group of private schools are already seeing the majority of their students using the state-funded education savings accounts.
Alabama farm leaders are celebrating a new federal rule decreasing the wages agriculture-related businesses must pay people hired through a guest worker program.
Alabama public schools are seeing their steepest enrollment decline in 40 years — a drop expected to cost the state 500 to 700 teacher positions next year, according to State Superintendent Eric Mackey.
