The Truth About PRICE Act Funding and Costs This week, House Bill 295 by Rep. Ernie Yarbrough, the Parental Rights in Children’s Education (PRICE) Act, is scheduled to receive a public hearing in the House Education Policy Committee. As introduced, the bi ...
How Alabama Teacher Salaries Compare To Other Southeastern States During her 2023 State of the State Address, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) pledged that teacher salaries would be the highest in the Southeast by the end of her second full term. Specifi ...
Permanent Tax Relief Should be the Alabama Legislature’s Top Fiscal Priority in 2023 During the 2023 Regular Legislative Session, lawmakers will be tasked with allocating a total state revenue surplus of $3 billion. This is excess money that came dire ...
Alabama Should Embrace Educational Freedom One of the three tenets of the Alabama Policy Institute’s mission is to promote and defend families as the primary foundation to society. Therefore, School Choice initiatives that acknowledge and strengthen the ...
Alabama licenses a total of 151 occupations, covering over 432,000 Alabama workers - over 20 percent of the state’s labor force. Occupational licensing imposes substantial costs on Alabamians in terms of reduced occupational mobility, reduced entrepreneur ...
API’s mission is to improve the lives of Alabamians through public policy that honors the principles of free markets, limited government, and strong families.API believes state government should be built upon a framework that adheres to common principles ...
Medicaid expansion has been a hot topic in the state recently as the 2023 regular session of the legislature looms. As I'm sure you're aware, the state has twice expanded coverage for new mothers from 60 days to 12 months. Some see the expansion of Medica ...
Read the report This report, entitled “Follow the Money and See Where It Goes: ALABAMA CITIZENS PAY FOR BIG GOVERNMENT,” examines the alarming rising tax revenue and spending from the state’s General Fund and Education Trust Fund budgets ov ...
On January 20, 2020, the first case of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was diagnosed by officials in Washington State and the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC). In the coming weeks the United States saw a sharp rise in confirmed coronav ...
The AAA enables students in Alabama’s worst-performing schools to receive a scholarship to cover the costs of attending a better school. Those scholarships are funded by private donations from individuals and corporations to Scholarship Granting Organiz ...
