Tag: schools
Military aims to help Alabama ease its teacher shortage
he military is aiming to ease Alabama’s shortage of teachers.
Military officials are leading two efforts designed to increase the number of teachers in the...
Grades are out on Alabama schools
The annual chance-for-success index from Education Week was released Tuesday with Alabama schools ranking near the bottom. This index looks at criteria around early foundations,...
Ballistic doors, smoke cannons: Firms sell school ‘hardening’ as mass shooting...
Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to...
Bradley Byrne introduces legislation to make schools safer
Schools nationwide will soon be safer for students, teachers, and faculty if Alabama 1st District U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne has anything to say about it.
A...
200 schools selected as official Alabama Bicentennial schools
Governor Kay Ivey announced Friday the 200 schools selected as official Alabama Bicentennial Schools.
Launched by Ivey in December 2017, the Alabama Bicentennial Schools Initiative...
Study: Alabama has the 8th worst school system in America
Alabama has been ranked the 8th worst school system in the United States in a new report titled 2018's States with the Best & Worst School...
Bradley Byrne: Protecting our children
For much of the year, the safety of our students rests in the hands of the faculty, staff, and resource officers at our schools....
Daniel Sutter: When campuses were in turmoil
Fifty years ago, protests and violence in opposition to the Vietnam War and the draft roiled college campuses. The War appeared hopelessly deadlocked after...
Betsy DeVos faults predecessor for wasting money on school reform
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says her predecessor wasted billions of dollars trying to fix traditional public schools.
DeVos says former Education Secretary Arne Duncan's signature...
Ala. House passes bill allowing warrantless arrests at schools
Tuscaloosa-Republican state Rep. Bill Poole is hoping to make Alabama schools safer for teachers and students.
In order to help achieve that goal, Poole introduced HB71 for the...
