With healthy budgets this year, Alabama fiscal leaders see ‘clouds on the horizon’
January 16, 2026
Alabama’s economic outlook is changing, and budgets will get tighter.
Gov. Ivey proposes 2% raise for educators, workers while highlighting accomplishments
January 14, 2026
During her final State of the State Address Tuesday evening, Gov. Kay Ivey proposed a 2% pay raise for educators and state employees and more money for the state’s new school choice program.
Some public charter schools not meeting enrollment projections, analysis shows
January 13, 2026
About half of Alabama’s public charter schools have not met their enrollment projections, according to an analysis shared with the Alabama Public Charter School Commission during its regular meeting Monday afternoon – a shortfall that could
Report finds public education reforms produced gains in Alabama
January 13, 2026
A new education report highlights measurable gains tied to a decade of public education reforms.
Higher education outcomes-based funding bill to be introduced in state legislature
January 12, 2026
Legislation will be introduced this week in the Alabama Legislature to tie some new higher education funding to school performance markers, the education budget committee chairmen told Alabama Daily News.
Longtime pastor Loper dies at 85
December 29, 2025
James Ivaloy Loper, a longtime Alabama Baptist pastor, died Dec. 27. He was 85. Loper served his country in the U.S. Army for two years,
Lawmakers back health care bill that does not extend subsidies
December 18, 2025
Alabama’s Republican House members all supported the Republican health care legislation on Wednesday that does not extend pandemic-era health insurance subsidies, virtually guaranteeing the tax credits will expire at the end of the year.
Kornegay ‘grateful’ for full-circle moment in music ministry, chance to start new tradition at West End Baptist
December 18, 2025
Paula Kornegay says it’s a story only God could write. When she stood up to direct the Christmas presentation at West End Baptist Church in Clanton, the children’s choir director who first taught her to count music was in the choir.
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