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Having spent years focusing on reading skills for early elementary school students, the Alabama State Board of Education is seeking funds to boost literacy after third grade. The State Board of Education on Oct. 12 approved a budget request for “struggling readers beyond grade 3” for $22 million. Last year, the Board had requested $3 […]

BIRMINGHAM — Training remains a major challenge for implementing new state literacy guidelines, educators said at a meeting of a state task force on Thursday. Members of the Alabama Literacy Task Force also discussed implementing a “continuum” of training on the new standards and expressed concerns about not reaching all children. “As long as we […]

As students return to school across the region, they are doing so with an unprecedented amount of educational funding in place to help them learn.

An Alabama State Department of Education official told legislators Tuesday that a law aimed at improving student math achievement will be ready for intervention in 2025. The Numeracy Act, passed in 2022, aims to improve math scores. Karen Anderson, director of math improvement for the Alabama State Department of Education, said the law tries to […]

State lawmakers are considering legislation that would reallocate hundreds of millions of dollars from K-12 and higher education into a new savings account and would cap future education budget increases to no more than 5 percent.

The new savings account would be there in case the economy stagnates or takes a downturn, Senate Education Budget Chair Arthu Orr said.

Superintendent Eric Mackey said high-poverty schools are showing “remarkable growth” and receiving “Cs” on the report card but remain on the failing list.

The Alabama schools superintendent said Thursday afternoon that state laws that label a set number of schools as "failing" were meant to humiliate struggling communities and push scholarships to private schools.

MONTGOMERY — Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed four education-focused executive orders and issued a memo to the Department of Early Childhood Education. Governor Ivey has consistently stated that improving

Ivey said she wants Alabama ranked in the top 30 states in numeracy and literacy by the end of her term.