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Kay Ivey signs Numeracy Act into Law, eliminating Common Core standards...
Governor Kay Ivey on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 171, the Alabama Numeracy Act, into law. The Numeracy Act, sponsored by Sen. Arthur...
Alabama lawmakers advance historic pay raises for teachers
Alabama lawmakers are poised to approve the largest pay raises in a generation for experienced public school teachers in an effort to...
Alabama lawmakers OK math initiative for elementary students
Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to a math initiative that will use instructional coaches, assessments, and interventions to try to...
Steve Flowers: Incumbency reigns supreme in State Senate
Being an incumbent state senator in Alabama is like owning that seat. The level of re-electability odds is probably better than that...
Issues to watch in the 2022 legislative session
Alabama lawmakers return to Montgomery on January 11 for the 2022 legislative session. Here are some issues to watch as the session...
Steve Flowers: State Senate will have little turnover in 2022
2022 was anticipated to be an exciting competitive election year. However, it is going to be a yawn of a political year....
Justin Bogie: Tax cuts seem to be everywhere – except in...
Kansas, one of a handful of states alongside Alabama that still fully taxes the sale of food, recently announced a bipartisan plan...
Last in math: Alabama politicians look for ways to close gap
Alabama students for years have ranked at the bottom in a national math assessment.
That has led one lawmaker...
Richard Shelby takes stance against vaccine mandates
Senator Richard Shelby has publicly expressed his views on the Biden Administration's vaccine mandate. The mandate states that all employers with more...
Alabama: Vaccine mandate will lead state employees to quit
Alabama argued in a lawsuit challenging the federal vaccine requirements that many university and state agency employees would leave their jobs if...
