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school choice stories
Education
De facto segregation persists, with Birmingham public schools ranking among the least integrated and most unequal in the country.
Featured Opinion
There is no better example of the disaster that unregulated, undefined "school choice" can bring than Montgomery's first charter school.
Legislature
The agenda includes lofty aims such as repealing the state's abortion law and permitless carry law.
Featured Opinion
Real school choice is an excellent idea. But what's being pushed by the right isn't school choice, it's segregation.
Education
Britt co-sponsored a resolution that would formally designate this week as “National School Choice Week.”
Legislature
Shaw has spent 30 years in the technology sector as well as six years on the Hoover City Council.
Legislature
Hulsey's son is on the autism spectrum, and she worked to ensure law enforcement approach people with "invisible disabilities" appropriately.
Education
Opponents criticized the amount of money the bill will draw from the ETF as well as investing public dollars into private schools not subject...
Legislature
Sen. Del Marsh's bill would cost the Education Trust Fund approximately $420 million.