Tag: PUBLIC SCHOOLS

We already know what gambling does to families. Now we’re being told to rely on it to fund our schools. That’s not a solution. That’s a tradeoff – and it’s one Alabama shouldn’t make. You don’t build strong schools by betting against your own people.

During Wednesday's episode of Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," State Rep. Mark Gidley (R-Hokes Bluff) spoke about his legislation requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in Alabama's public schools.

The deadline for families to apply for Alabama’s school choice program is March 31.

If districts are formally asserting that digital platforms harm children, why are elements of that same ecosystem embedded into the mandatory structure of the school day?

The Alabama Legislature has recently and commendably passed legislation shielding minors from exposure to inappropriate content. How about taking steps to ensure minors are exposed to highly appropriate content about our nation’s founding?

State Rep. Mark Gidley (R-Hokes Bluff) pre-filed legislation this week to grant Alabama's public school boards the option of allowing chaplains on their campuses. The lawmaker's bill will be considered in the upcoming 2026 legislative session, which kicks off in January.

Parents who send their children to public schools should press on, confident that they and their children do not shed their free exercise rights at the schoolhouse gate.

Legislation offering paid parental leave for state employees and educators, touted by Gov. Kay Ivey in her State of the State Address earlier this month, was filed Tuesday in both legislative bodies.

Peeping behind the curtain reveals that SEL is nothing more than unlicensed therapy shoved down your child’s throat on a daily basis in public school.

Members of the Alabama Legislature and a representative from Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office will meet in Prattville later this month to discuss efforts to "remove gender ideology from public schools” and other hot-button topics.

Two 13-year-olds have been arrested and charged with making terroristic threats in a saga that sent schools and parents reeling in the tri-county area over the weekend.

As crazy as you thought the state of Alabama could be, it got crazier over the holidays, particularly in the education sector. The few states ranked below us in education must be pleased. 

Alabama State Department of Education director of communications Dr. Michael Sibley said March 13, 2020, was the day a previously distant thought became a reality. Then-President Donald Trump declared a National Emergency, and schools were suddenly closed.

The truth of the education system’s failures lies somewhere in between everyone and no one's responsibility, citizen, which means you must believe the lie for the nobility of the system to survive.

Fewer Alabama public high schools are keeping the opioid-countering drug naloxone on hand, even as safety concerns due to fentanyl are on the rise.

The content of public education has been a matter of contentious public discourse in the United States, and Alabama was no different in 2022.

By Craig Monger An Alabama public school employee pled guilty to stealing from the Troy City School system. Attorney General (AG) Steve...

By Brandon Moseley Mike and Elizabeth Shreve of Cleveland, Tennessee released a statement in September asking the Alabama legislature...