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Alabama Elects to March Toward True Progress in Education

September 9, 2016 By Betty Peters

Betty Peters: Michael Sentance gave us a clear outline for his vision of education, modeled on the highly successful reform effort he had been part of in Massachusetts.

Filed Under: Education at State Level Tagged With: Alabama, Alabama State Board of Education, Common Core State Standards, Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993, Michael Sentance, NAEP, Robert Bentley

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley’s Awful Executive Order on Data Collection

July 13, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley issued an executive order related to student data collection that established the state’s longitudinal database system.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: Alabama, Robert Bentley, student data collection, student data privacy

Alabama Senate President Pro Tem is the Roadblock to Common Core Repeal

January 2, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

It was reported in late November that legislative efforts will be difficult in Alabama and Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh will likely be the primary roadblock. An excerpt: Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh said legislative efforts to repeal the Common Core education standards likely won’t make it to the Senate floor in […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Alabama, Alabama House, Alabama Legislative Watchdogs, Alabama Senate, Common Core State Standards, Deanna Frankowski, Del Marsh, Mike Hubbard, Rainy Day Patriots, Robert Bentley, Scott Beason

Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Kills Anti-Common Core Bill

April 25, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh was confused about who was right so he single-handedly killed Alabama’s anti-Common Core bill.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Alabama Senate, Alabama Senate Education Committee, Del Marsh, Robert Bentley, SB 403, Scott Beason, Tommy Bice

Alabama Pulls Out of PARCC and SBAC

February 4, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Edweek reported late Friday that Alabama has pulled out of both testing consortia that it was involved in. In an email to EdWeek, the state’s assessment director, Gloria Turner, confirmed that Alabama has bowed out of both the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. […]

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: Alabama Department of Education, Betty Peters, Common Core State Standards, PARCC, Partnership of Assessments of Rediness for College and Careers, Robert Bentley, SBAC, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, Stephanie Bell

Alabama Legislature Tramples on Local Control in Favor of Tourism and Tax Revenue

May 12, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

A school start date mandate was passed in Alabama as the Alabama Legislature overrode Alabama Governor Robert Bentley’s veto.  From the Montgomery Advertiser: Most Alabama school children will be headed back to school later after the Alabama Legislature has voted to override Gov. Robert Bentley’s veto of a bill that proposes many school children returning […]

Filed Under: Education at State Level Tagged With: Alabama Legislature, local control in education, Robert Bentley, School Start Date

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