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.
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.”
Tom Whatley thought he would have a career in military, but he couldn’t resist God’s call to ministry. Over the years, he served several Alabama churches, including spending 27 years as pastor of Woodward Avenue Baptist in Muscle Shoals.
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.
Kevin McCreless, longtime pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Rainsville, died Oct. 16. In February, Broadway Baptist honored McCreless and named him pastor emeritus as he retired from 33 years of ministry there.
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