For the past week, Kate Davis has been doing what she can to help keep kids and staff healthy in the Hoover school district. She’s raising money to buy air purifiers for classrooms. Davis is a parent in the school district.
1500 students from the local area will go beyond the classroom to the nonviolent struggle to dismantle racial segregation and discrimination in Birmingham thanks to new National Park Foundation grant
The Empower Community School has been described as an open-admission public charter school, that is free to attendees. The schools looks to prepare students for college admissions and careers as well.
Several school districts across the state are being forced to move to virtual learning because there just aren’t teachers and staff to provide instruction, meals, and transportation.
It’s a talker among public school employees in Alabama one day after Governor Kay Ivey announced a proposed pay raise in her State of the State address Tuesday night.
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.
Jack, a student at Bryan Elementary School, was sent home with a cabbage plant right before schools closed for COVID in 2020. Jack and his grandfather planted and babied the cabbage until it reached full size.
More than half of teachers and staff recently surveyed are thinking about or planning to leave in the next five years according to an attrition survey by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education attrition survey. The commission surveyed around 18,000 of the state’s 93,000 school employees.
A troubling post shared widely on social media this week has caused local schools to close campuses. The Fairfield City School District along with Bessemer City Schools making the tough decision to close district buildings out of an abundance of caution.
Bessemer City Schools announced that they will not hold in-person school, but a half e-learning day on December 17th, due to a recent viral threat on TikTok.
Changes to Alabama’s Career and Technical Education curriculum are set to take place next year, but not before getting the public’s opinion. The areas that the department has updated thus far are Architecture and Construction, Information Technology, and Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics.
Aliceville Elementary School’s first grade teachers made a social media post requesting games their students could take home to play with their families.
These funds will be used to expand their “Angel Award” scholarship program. Officials are hopeful it will impact the lives of current and future students.
School leaders and Jefferson County deputies said throughout the month of November, both Oak Grove High School and Oak Grove Elementary School were burglarized several times and had multiple items stolen from both campuses.
School officials say the district wants to hire certified teachers, bus drivers, custodians, pre-K teachers, child nutrition staff, substitute teachers, and teaching aids.
Leaders of Alabama’s first aviation high school can now officially move forward after signing the contract with the Alabama Public Charter School Commission.
Cullman City Schools leaders announced a plan to hold tolerance listening sessions and possible policy adjustments following the release of a video that included racial slurs.
The Robotics short-term certificate program will provide students with the skills to address robotics and advanced robotics for engineering and manufacturing companies, particularly those related to defense and automotive manufacturers and suppliers in Alabama.
A former interim chief financial officer for the Montgomery Public Schools system has been arrested, according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office.
The expansion includes 16 new classrooms, office space, and a second lunchroom for the Hanceville campus. The new lunchroom will serve K-5 students. The current lunchroom will serve grades 6-12.
