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The Alabama Senate voted to delay the Alabama Literacy Act until the 2023/24 school year. That bill is now going to the house.

Kelsey Cooper, a math teacher for Madison City Schools, received the Milken Educator Award and $25,000.

Autherine Lucy Fosters death occurred just days after the University of Alabama held a ceremony to rename an education building in her honor.

The budget will include teacher pay raises, funding for reading and math coaches, and increases in money for classroom supplies.

Alabama is one of several states considering a change in law to grant public funds for homeschooling. But as one official admitted, the financial windfall will also bring additional scrutiny.

Alabama is one of several states considering a change in law to grant public funds for homeschooling. But as one official admitted, the financial windfall will also bring additional scrutiny.

The bill would not ban the teaching of "divisive concepts," but would forbid compulsion to "adopt or believe" them.

The bill would not ban the teaching of "divisive concepts," but would forbid compulsion to "adopt or believe" them.

Black History Month has been celebrated in some form for nearly a century. But this year it comes as students are getting caught up in political scrutiny and alongside a coordinated effort to limit the teaching of race and racism. Geoff Bennett reports.

Twenty-three global interns from Korea working on their graduate and undergraduate teaching degrees remember their time in Alabama-- like basketball and ice cream.