Sarah Verser
Anchor
Birmingham, Ala.
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Sarah Verser anchors The Four, the 5:00-5:30 and 6 On Your Side each weekday.
Formerly, she anchored The Four for 4 1/2 years, and she was part of the Good Day Alabama team for 16 years greeting you every morning.
In addition, Sarah is an award winning education reporter. Her segments, What's Right With Our Schools and At Your School, have earned her honors including the Alabama Broadcasters Association's Best in Broadcasting and the Associated Press' Best Specialized Reporter Awards.
Other honors include awards from the Birmingham Association of Black Journalists, the Birmingham City Council, The Literacy Council of Alabama and the State Board of Education. She was also awarded a distinguished spot on the Alabama Association of School Boards' Statewide Education Media Honor Roll and the Bill Miller Friend of Education Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education from the Alabama Association of Elementary School Administrators.
What's Right With Our Schools highlights the numerous accomplishments of students and teachers that seldom get the spotlight otherwise.
Sarah is among the Hurricane Class of graduates of Leadership Birmingham. You’ll find Sarah on stage assisting in the Birmingham Komen Race for the Cure. She's also a children's book author.
She began her career reporting for WKBW-TV, Channel 7 Eyewitness News in Buffalo, New York. While there, she also reported for the weekly Public Affairs show "Buffalo Beat."
She came south and found not just a great career, but an outstanding church home and married the love of her life. She now enjoys a new adventure as a wife and mother.
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The Alabama Department of Health (ADPH) is launching a challenge to help parents create safe sleeping space for babies.
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WBRC's On Your Side Safety Check dives into the announcement that Governor Kay Ivey awarded $3.5 million in grants to promote highway safety in Alabama.
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Dr. Mark Sullivan sat down with Sarah Verser about the new school year, including the literacy act and how his team is meeting the challenges.
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Sarah Verser shares her conversation with Tuscaloosa City Schools Superintendent, Dr. Mike Daria.
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Gun violence is certainly not just an issue in Birmingham, but it is top of mind for city leaders, including the city council’s public safety committee chair.
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Alabama’s only aviation high school is set to take flight for a new school year starting next week.
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The state of Alabama has released 2022-2023 ACAP reading scores for individual schools, including a test to show the impact the literacy act could have on this upcoming school year.
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We caught up with two amazing Alabama students since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision wiping out affirmative action for college admissions at Harvard University, and thereby colleges and universities around the nation.
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A transparent look at the initial impact of gun violence on victims, and the work behind the headlines to make sure the cycle doesn’t continue.
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The Hope Institute acknowledges a void, and children who may not see good examples of character otherwise.
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Members of UAB’s Trauma and Acute Care Surgery division trained people how to apply a tourniquet, or pack a wound for someone who is bleeding. The training could give a victim the precious seconds they need to survive and not bleed to death.
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We had a powerful time of listening and learning from students at Fairfield High School during their “InFocus” meeting.
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By the time she graduated high school, Destiny had 69 course credits, which made her a junior in college.
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A big congratulations to the Skills USA State Champions from Hoover’s Riverchase Career Connections Center or RC3.
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If you are a new mom, you know all about the rising costs of childcare. It’s a major obstacle blocking women from returning to the workforce.
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Kikstart gives food away to those in need as well as running a discount store.
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The program started last year when a teacher came up with the idea to motivate her young students to love books and to read.
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There is still time to apply for those college scholarships.
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They say no matter what you are going through, you can triumph over your circumstances. Their lives intersect through the Youth Leadership Development Program, which mentors juniors and seniors in high school to become leaders in character.
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If you have ever said to yourself my vote doesn’t matter, Dejuana Thompson wants to talk to you about voter engagement.
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It’s the period in between the nine weeks of school. Instead of being off, students come to school for enrichment, or intensive instruction in the subjects where they need help.
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High school seniors can apply free of charge to a list of colleges in and outside of the state of Alabama during Free Application Week Oct. 17-22.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Sarah Verser talks with Dr. Monika Tataria of Camellia Women’s Imaging about the importance of not delaying to get a mammogram.
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The principal of Glen Iris Elementary School is encouraging all of the teachers to get students outside and into the garden for a bit of cross-pollination of learning.
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The Birmingham VA Health Care System will host a job fair Saturday, September 24, 2022, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Birmingham VA East Clinic, located at 7901 Crestwood Blvd., Irondale, AL 35210.
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SROs, teachers, hiring and test scores were some of the topics discussed during our Back to School with WBRC Town Hall.
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Teachers are heading back for work for Birmingham City Schools including Josh Hughes, formerly a WBRC FOX6 News editor, who will be a new social studies teacher at Woodlawn High School.
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This will be only the second time The World Games will be underway on American soil since its inception.
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Compassion in action for the homeless coming from two young brothers and their mom in Birmingham.
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Now to the great news for the Adams - Trey soared through graduation with $1.6 million dollars in scholarship offers from 17 different colleges and universities.
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I am the last person to really encourage a conversation about snakes, but with the warmer weather it became very obvious I need to know more about staying safe when it comes to these reptiles.
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Mayor Tony Picklesimer says folks living in Dunnavant Valley and Mount Laurel will drive right passed it, as well as folks heading to and from work in Birmingham.
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For 40 years, Childcare Resources, a Birmingham based nonprofit organization, has been providing financial help for low income working families to have access to quality childcare.
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Students come each day to RC3 from their base high schools to get immersed in a career experience. He can take what he learns at RC3 and get college credit.
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The Birmingham City School Board just approved a pay raise for substitute teachers.
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Realize your calling. Create your career. Those words are prominently displayed on the outside of the Riverchase Career Connection Center, or RC3.
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HBCUs flourished as incubators, raising up leaders immersed in African American culture and academic excellence.
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The surgery lab at Chelsea is the first in the state.
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The Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School is now open for enrollment to students, as it prepares to open its doors in August. The school is also looking to hire teachers for it’s first year.
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The widely successful early college program allows students to become dual enrolled taking high school and college courses through a partnership with UAB and Jefferson State Community College.
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The special connection between a little boy’s vision to end childhood cancer and a Shelby County middle school.
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Jacquelyn Rodgers says she began Greentop Gifts because she wanted her children to see images that looked like them during the holidays and beyond.
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She has sold a number of things over the years with the help of a popular vinyl printer and then a sewing machine.
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Lt. Colonel Richard Peace is an F16 fighter jet pilot with the Alabama Air National Guard who is making sure the Tuskegee Airmen legacy stays alive.
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Leaders of Alabama’s first aviation high school can now officially move forward after signing the contract with the Alabama Public Charter School Commission.
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WBRC is hosting speakers who will take questions and discuss resources available to women and families.
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All of the principals credited very active parent participation and support from their school districts.
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Organizers said the purpose of the weekend is to give women the opportunity to rebuild their lives through sisterhood.
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This year BCRFA is celebrating 25 years of fundraising totaling $11 million in breast cancer research that stays here in Alabama.
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