Alabamians will likely spend almost six billion dollars on public K-12 education in the next academic year. Like clockwork, grave concerns will be voiced in the next legislative session that this amount is not enough, and that higher taxes, an ...
Alabama’s School Choice Law Halted by Another Politically-Driven Attack
The Circuit Court for Montgomery County ruled on Wednesday that the state’s year-old school choice law, the Alabama Accountability Act, is unconstitutional and that the state is enjoined from taking any measures to further implement the law. This is ...
Federal Government Backs Down on Obstruction of School Choice
In 2008, under the leadership of Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana launched an educational scholarship program in New Orleans. The Louisiana Scholarship Program, similar to Alabama’s new scholarship program created by the Accountability Act, is design ...
Safer Schools – A Call to Adapt
As the horror of the recent events in Connecticut have unfolded I’ve been watching the updates with real emotion. No amount of words can assuage the grief of that community, much less the families who are coping with the unexpected loss of their love ...
Public School Choice: A Personal Story
Alabama is a beautiful state with many attractions, both in its natural beauty and in the slower pace of living our hospitable people prefer. While our drawls and small towns are a quaint reminder of our heritage, the refusal of state policyma ...
Government-Subsidized Education Inflation
Only a few weeks ago, college graduations took place all over the country. Families traveled to see their loved ones receive diplomas and move on to another chapter in their lives. And after four or more years of college, those graduates are hoping f ...
Senate-Passed Bill Creates Unnecessary Hurdles for Charter Schools
One of the memorable things about the 2012 legislative session is the absolute fiasco created by the Republican-controlled Alabama State Senate when they passed a charter school bill that is far worse than if they had simply passed nothing. In a pre ...
The Facts About Charter Schools
By now practically everyone in Alabama has seen, heard or read something about public charter schools. Incredibly, most of what is out there is actually deliberate “misinformation” targeting what can be best described as simply increasing educational ...