The state intervention of Montgomery Public Schools has ended today after nearly five years. The school system is celebrating by releasing a video that declares “It’s a Brand New Day.”
The Alabama State Board of Education has cemented rules that ban so-called critical race theory teachings from K-12 classrooms.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama State Board of Education on Thursday voted to ban so-called critical race theory teachings from K-12 classrooms and limit how educators can talk about race in the classroom. Board members approved a resolution titled, “Preservation of Intellectual Freedom and Non-Discrimination in Alabama Public Schools,” news outlets reported. It bans “concepts that impute fault, blame,…
Ella B BellSBOEAlabama State Board of Education Member Ella Bell has come under fire today following an al.com opinion article that says she wants to institutionalize Alabama’s special needs students. In the piece, Bell is quoted asking whether it’s “against the law to create an academy on special education so that poor test scores from existing schools would not be further…
There are six finalists to become the next school superintendent of Alabama. The Department of Education announced the finalists Tuesday. The finalists include three local school superintendents, including one veteran of the state Department of Education. The finalists are Bill Evers, a research fellow at Stanford University; Dee Fowler, superintendent of Madison City Schools; Craig Pouncey, superintendent of Jefferson County…
