Alabama saw another year of strong growth in tax revenues in the last fiscal year, according to the state’s financial reports. The economy produced another year...
When the Senate sent its education budget to the house during the past legislative session, the line item for the charter school commission was increased from...
There is something terribly wrong when two influential senators can lie, cheat and defraud the people without retribution. As the Scottish novelist Walter Scott wrote over...
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a $7.1 billion education budget Thursday. The 2020 fiscal year Education Trust Fund budget is the largest in state history. Both...
Gov. Kay Ivey and the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education announced that the Alabama First Class Pre-K program will add 164 new classrooms to 38...
Congresswoman Terri Sewell, D-Selma, called on the state of Alabama to expand the Medicaid program on Tuesday. Sewell made the remarks during a hearing of the...
For decades, Alabama state government has largely deferred decision making on educational matters to the elected state school board. The governor and legislature prepared budgets and...
The Alabama House of Representatives rejected the lottery bill on its first procedural vote on Tuesday before any amendments could be introduced or final passage even...
The Memorial Day holiday is approaching, and state legislators are saying privately that they are ready for this session to be over, but much work remains...
The lottery bill is expected to be voted on in committee this week. AL.com has reported the vote would take place in committee Tuesday, but later...
