Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry said the juveniles asked people out of state to call in bomb threats. Arrests are happening now in four other states.
The tailgate-themed event will offer potential candidates the opportunity to meet, interview and be hired on-the-spot by school and district administrators.
Hoover City School leaders will vote soon on a proposed budget of $229 million for the upcoming fiscal year and leaders are crunching numbers that were impacted by the pandemic.
The state board of education released preliminary data about student assessments during Thursday’s work session. It’s data both state and local education leaders wanted to review to gauge COVID’s impact on student learning.
Franklin integrated Auburn as the university’s first Black student on Jan. 4, 1964. He was a Graduate School enrollee. He went on to a successful 27-year career as an educator in higher education.
The state now has a better idea of how students performed in school during the pandemic. New scores were released for the Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program. The Alabama State Department of Education is focused on the pandemic, mental health, and academic recovery as another school year with COVID is underway.
The director recorded a Facebook live message Wednesday directed to parents, citing a shortage of truck drivers and manufacturer workers as some of the reasons why they can’t get certain kinds of food.
School districts in Alabama and across the country are facing a critical school nurse shortage this year during a school year even more centered on student health and safety.
Alabama’s top educator said he expects to see more schools going to mandatory masking and remote learning as the Delta variant continues to spread across the state.
Bessemer Schools Superintendent Dr. Autumm Jeter said the students engaged in their First Amendment rights by stepping out of the classroom to protest. Jeter said she and school leaders acknowledge the students’ rights and she thanked them for being peaceful.
The grim reality of the situation caused health leaders to warn that if the state continued on that track, more schools would need to switch to virtual learning.
Superintendent Dr. Lewis Brooks announced Thursday Shelby County Schools will move to a mask mandate starting on Monday, August 30, 2021. Some parents voiced their opposition Thursday evening during the school board meeting.
TCSS Public Relations Director Terri Brewer said no board members proposed a change to optional mask procedures in Monday’s TCSS board meeting. Superintendent Keri Johnson said that the student COVID positivity rate is currently around 1 percent.
That means 100 percent of the students who graduated this year also started at the school and stayed in school. It’s the first time in the school’s history.
A mask mandate decision didn’t sit well with some parents, with around a dozen showing up at the school district’s central office Friday morning to protest.
Some Chilton Co. Schools are changing their mask policy from optional to mandatory as the number of COVID-19 positive cases and exposures steadily increases throughout the district, according to the superintendent.
A spokesperson for the BCS said the district’s priority is to protect the health and safety of all students and employees, which is why its quarantine policy varies on a case-by-case basis.
An adult male was arrested and charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct, harassment, reckless endangerment and domestic violence reckless endangerment.
"The Cullman High School student body and faculty, as well as the entire Cullman City School System family, are grieving the loss of a classmate and model student."
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is looking for high school students in the Birmingham metro who are interested in learning about artificial intelligence.
In Birmingham, a teacher and a teacher union head both agree more needs to be done to contain and slow the spread of COVID-19, but they both question if mandating teachers to get shots will do the trick.
The Alabama state legislature gave the state department of education more money to pay and hire teachers. Some of that cash is going into incentive packages recruiting more teachers to rural schools.
"Please make decisions that are best for you and your family based on our school systems guidelines. My prayer is for health, safety, peace and unity as we provide an education for the students of Chilton County!"
ALEA encourages all citizens to take a moment and share important safety reminders with their children and loved ones before returning to the classrooms.
It's a showdown over face masks with the Hoover Board of Education. After Thursday's meeting, that issue will clearly be the deciding factor when board members decide how students will start the new school year.
