On Monday, API's Director of Policy Strategy joined Rightside Radio host Phil Williams on WVNN 92.5/770AM to discuss how other states created and expanded school choice programs in 2021 while Alabama largely ignored, as former president Donald Trump ...
Mobile Radio: Parker Snider Discusses School Choice on Archangel Radio
API's Director of Policy Analysis joined Mobile's Archangel Radio Monday morning to discuss school choice and the legislature's failure to pass two easy school choice measures in the 2021 Session. "Over half of the Republican party voted against a bi ...
Leaders of Birmingham Should Use Stimulus Funds to Make the City “Magic” Again for All Citizens
The City of Birmingham will use nearly a quarter of its first round of federal stimulus payments from the American Rescue Act to provide one time bonuses to all full and part-time city employees. The bonus payments received final approval from the Je ...
Some ideas are too conservative for many Alabama legislators.
Just last week, the Montana legislature voted to expand their tax-credit scholarship program, a school choice program.Also last week, the Florida legislature sent Governor DeSantis a bill that expands their school choice program that targets low-inco ...
We need to stop playing favorites with public school students.
We are playing favorites with the students in our public schools.Students who are by all accounts very similar–they are in the same grade, have similar backgrounds, and are enrolled in the same school district–are funded differently based not on thei ...
Points of Policy: School Choice with Rep. Charlotte Meadows
On this Points of Policy edition of the 1819 Podcast, API Chief Policy Officer Phil Williams is joined by Alabama State House Member, Representative Charlotte Meadows, to discuss school choice and Meadows' bill that could strengthen school choice in ...
President Trump sent Alabama a message on school choice. Has the legislature gotten it?
In February of 2020, Janiyah Davis, a fourth-grader from Philadelphia, walked through the doors of the US Capitol Building and into the House Gallery. Along with her mother, they sat down on the second row. "No parent should be forced to send thei ...