Three weeks ago, we told you about the mess in Baldwin County regarding the effort of Gulf Shores to start its own city school system. The county school...
Feb. 28, 2013 was just another late winter’s day in Montgomery. The temperature was in the 50’s, the Legislature was in session and the State Board...
The 2013 Alabama Accountability Act decreed that we would come up with a list of “failing” schools each year. The Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, said...
Editor’s note: This piece is in response to a guest column published Wednesday. The Alabama Policy Institute has their propaganda machine working overtime trying to convince us...
More than 600 people have responded so far to a recent online survey about the Alabama Accountability Act. They are loud and clear as to how they feel....
Most of us heard the parable of the Good Samaritan at an early age. Probably in a Sunday School Class. And in Alabama, it was probably...
The Montgomery County board of education passed a resolution in October calling for the repeal of the Alabama Accountability Act. I was on the board that...
Gov. Kay Ivey has just announced that former U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner is joining her staff as “senior advisor.” In my opinion, this is great news...
As we reported back in July, longtime head of the Business Council of Alabama, Billy Canary, was ousted from his position after months of high stakes...
Of all the blunders former state school superintendent Mike Sentance made (and there were many), none looms any larger than his decision to hire Jason Taylor...