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Educators are searching for a solution to low reading proficiencies in Alabama. This week, a River Region coalition made a plan to do just that.

More than 70 community leaders from across the River Region met in Montgomery today to draft an action plan to increase the number of children reading proficiently by the end of the third grade.

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A divided state school board has cemented rules that ban...

MONTGOMERY — The Alabama State Department of Education says it has approved about half of the applications from K-12 schools for their share of the $2 billion in American Rescue Plan Act funds. Read more.

The results show the pandemics significant impact on education.

The state education department cant enforce masks but is encouraging them.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is seeing a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases in school-age children, an increase officials say is likely fueled by the highly contagious delta variant and is causing some schools to temporarily switch to remote learning.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is seeing a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases in school-age...

First developed in the 1970s, critical race theory is an academic framework that analyzes how race operates and manifests in the United States.