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- Legislature
Alabama bill stops short of ending all shackling of pregnant women
Speaker announces changes, appointments in House committee structure
Legislative committees set up ARPA funding for Tuesday vote
Senate committee stalls bill seeking elimination of occupational tax
Remaining ARPA funds go to broadband, health care, sewage, water treatment
- Opinion
Opinion | Breaking the partisan gridlock: teacher, state employee pay raises
Opinion | Truth is back to bite Mike Durant
Opinion | Southern Research investing in future of Birmingham
Opinion | Early education pilot showing positive results for children across Alabama
Opinion | The pandering MLK quotes are coming
- National
The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act dies on Senate floor
Congressman Jerry Carl announces key D.C. staff change
U.S. Supreme Court blocks vaccine mandate for large businesses
John Lewis Voting Rights Act passes in combined package with Freedom to Vote Act
Doug Jones calls for building “pro-democracy coalition”
- Education
New data shows children using Waterford Upstart are exceeding mastery of subjects
Birmingham Promise scholarship applications now open for class of 2022
Biden administration extends student loan forbearance
University of Alabama Faculty Senate formally opposes ban of Critical Race Theory
AASB announces new leadership on the board of directors
- Health
UAB epidemiologist: Alabama’s COVID surge could last for several more weeks
Alabama’s child COVID hospitalizations hit another record, four on ventilators
U.S. government to launch free COVID test website Wednesday
Alabama setting record numbers of child COVID hospitalizations
Alabama has lowest average total single premium, according to government report
Education Matters stories
Opinion
Education Matters Larry Lee According to its website, The Alabama Policy Institute “is a non-profit, non-partisan research and education organization dedicated to influencing public...
Opinion
Education Matters By Larry Lee Wendy Lang is a longtime elementary school educator in Decatur, AL. She left the classroom a year ago to...
Opinion
Education Matters By Larry Lee At this writing, nearly 700 have responded to the survey we posted on Friday, March 17, 2017. Results basically...
Opinion
Education Matters By Larry Lee Just to prove they understand “alternative facts,” the Alabama Federation for Children sent out a news release and a...
Opinion
Education Matters By Larry Lee At its heart, education is more about hand-to-hand combat than about ballyhooed plans and initiatives. Sure, we love the...
Opinion
By Larry Lee Education Matters More than 40 years ago, the late Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker asked during the Watergate hearings, “What did...
Opinion
By Larry Lee The State Department of Education just released the latest “failing schools” list, an annual ranking is required by the infamous Alabama...
Opinion
By Larry Lee Education Matters After more than four years of endless meetings and countless discussions about how someone can label a school with...
Opinion
Education Matters By Larry Lee When State Superintendent of Education Mike Sentance told the State School Board Dec. 8, that the Office of Inspector...
