17/06/2026
Alabama School Connection
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This page is being kept active by Trisha Powell Crain, senior education reporter at Alabama Daily News and Alabama Public Television.
The Alabama School Connection, founded in 2009, is no longer operating independently. The ASC is devoted to shining a light on the Alabama K-12 system in an effort to enhance discussion about our schools among parents, teachers, students, educational administrators, policymakers and legislators. The ASC believes that if all stakeholders speak a common language and engage in the discussion of issues surrounding and facing our public schools, our public schools will be made stronger.
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Parents oppose plan to shift special education oversight: ‘We didn't want this to happen' Education Secretary Linda McMahon told parents in a video announcing seismic shifts to special education and civil rights enforcement that “I’ve heard you.” Parents say that might be true, but that she didn’t listen.
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School-level reading scores - and a link to the Tableau visualization of school-level scores - available in this story.
Alabama reading scores show persistent poverty gaps, standout schools BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Alabama’s latest school-level reading results show a familiar pattern: third-graders in high-poverty schools were less likely to meet the state benchmark this spring, but some of those schools still posted some of the strongest results in the state. The results, released by th...
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