Showing posts with label Alabama Accountability Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama Accountability Act. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Craig Ford: The future of education is at stake on Election Day

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  Do you believe money should be taken out of our local public schools so that kids in Birmingham, Montgomery and other parts of the state c...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Craig Ford: All I want for Christmas is for every child to have a good education

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  When my kids were growing up, I don’t know who was more excited on Christmas morning: the kids opening their presents or me and Gwen watch...
Friday, November 3, 2017

Craig Ford: Repealing the Accountability Act should be a priority for the legislature

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  When the Alabama Legislature returns to Montgomery in January, you won’t hear a whole lot about education. What you will hear a lot about ...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Craig Ford: Should Alabama Superintendent of Education Michael Sentance be fired?

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Editor's Note: Multiple Alabama news sources reported September 13 that Michael Sentance had resigned his position.   On Thursday, th...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1557: Death by a thousand cuts

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  Death by a thousand cuts. Reputedly this was a form of death by torture practiced centuries ago in China. Instead of a quick death by a st...
Monday, February 6, 2017

Craig Ford: My hope for the future of Alabama and the Democratic Party

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  For the last six years, it has been my privilege to serve as Minority Leader in the Alabama House of Representatives. On Wednesday, I will...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Craig Ford: Want to save the state money?

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  Our state government has money problems.   It’s the reason we keep calling the Alabama Legislature back into special legislative session...
Friday, January 8, 2016

Craig Ford: Fix the Alabama Accountability Act or repeal it

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  If the Alabama Legislature won't repeal the Accountability Act, then they should fix it so that the money is actually going to kids in...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Craig Ford: Accountability Act is the legislature's ultimate failure

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  There have been a lot of things said about the state’s legislative session that just ended. But no one is calling it a success (at least n...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1450: Attacks on public education are mounting in Alabama

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  Attacks on public education are mounting in Alabama. The attacks just keep coming. They come from different directions. They come in diffe...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Cameron Smith: The Accountability Act gets personal

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  Since its enactment in 2013, the Alabama Accountability Act has been a focal point in Alabama politics. The law added flexibility from cer...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Katherine Robertson: Accountability Act provides incentives, tools for failing schools

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  The State Superintendent of Education has released the names of 78 Alabama schools that are now designated as ‘failing’ under the Alabam...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse: When businessmen take over

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  The 2013 legislative session has come to an end. Our legislature, both the House and Senate, is Republican controlled. In fact, both cha...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Cameron Smith: The AEA is only one perspective in Alabama education

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  After years of the status quo in public education, the Alabama Legislature and Governor Bentley enacted the Alabama Accountability Act t...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Gary Palmer: Why the Accountability Act matters

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  In 1963, Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in the doorway of Foster Auditorium to block the “schoolhouse door” in order to prevent b...