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The new year is almost upon us, and so is the second semester of the school year.Â
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BIRMINGHAM — Most of Alabama’s school districts have exhausted their share of $3.1 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds, but questions remain about how some of that money was spent. While most districts adhered to spending rules, audits have flagged several for compliance issues – most n…
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BIRMINGHAM — Teacher shortages in Alabama have shown improvement in some subjects, but persistent challenges remain, according to State Superintendent Eric Mackey.
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RUSSELLVILLE — Russellville Elementary School was recently named a 2024 Safe School Award Winner by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.Â
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MUSCLE SHOALS — Muscle Shoals High School students will receive training on how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) through a state grant program inspired by a state senator who suffered a cardiac event while visiting South Korea last year.
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For Makenzie Gilkison, spelling is such a struggle that a word like rhinoceros might come out as “rineanswsaurs†or sarcastic as “srkastik.â€
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SHEFFIELD — Sheffield High School sophomore Jack Vallejo recently brought home a national championship for the Gaming Dogs esports team.Â
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RUSSELLVILLE — When Aaron Lynch was a junior at Russellville High School, he spoke with a firefighter at career day and became interested in the field.Â
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Buried among Florida's manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statues of Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old plantations turned into…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin 15-year-old who shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student Monday was only in her first semester at the school but seemed to be settling in, a school official said Thursday as families of the victims remembered them as people of faith who had deep conne…
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin brought two guns to the school and was in contact with a man in California who authorities say was planning to attack a government building, according to authorities and court documents that …
UVALDE, Texas — A Texas judge on Thursday refused to throw out criminal charges accusing the former Uvalde schools police chief of putting children at risk during a slow response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.
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ROGERSVILLE — Christmas wishes will be fulfilled for 142 children in the Lauderdale County school system this holiday season.Â
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin police did not plan any public updates Wednesday into the extremely rare religious school shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others, a day after the city’s mayor chastised reporters and urged them to leave victims alone.
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SHEFFIELD — Sheffield High School's health science students on Tuesday had hands on medical instruction courtesy of a recent alumnus.Â
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MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Association of School Boards is raising concerns on a proposal lawmakers are considering to change the state’s K-12 school funding formula from one based on head count to one based on student needs.
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BIRMINGHAM — The Alabama Commission on Higher Education voted in favor of a $2.6 billion budget request for all two- and four-year colleges and universities along with other higher education-related programs in fiscal 2026.
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MADISON, Wis. — The motive for a shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded others at a Wisconsin school appears to be a “combination of factors,†a police chief said Tuesday as he appealed to the public to share what they might know about the 15-year-old girl who attacked a st…
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MONTGOMERY — A proposed statewide ban on cell phone usage in schools has local superintendents contemplating its necessity.Â
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MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Board of Education, including Gov. Kay Ivey, voted unanimously to adopt new social studies standards expanding teaching of Alabama and U.S. history along with civics, geography and the Holocaust.
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MADISON, Wis. — A teenage student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another teenage student in the final week before Christmas break. The shooter also died, police said.
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BIRMINGHAM — Alabama homeschoolers may gain access to public school career technical classes as soon as the start of the 2026-27 school year under a proposal by Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Hoover.
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BIRMINGHAM — Alabama’s Community College System board approved asking lawmakers for $694 million for their fiscal year 2026 budget, an 18% increase it says is essential to meet the state's workforce development demands.
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HALEYVILLE — Several types of illnesses are impacting attendance at Haleyville middle and high schools this week.Â
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FLORENCE — A $100,000 fundraising goal to help the University of North Alabama Marching Pride perform in the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been eclipsed.
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FLORENCE — The University of North Alabama invited a special guest to the September unveiling of a mural at the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions.
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FLORENCE — The Tru Freedom Riders Motorcycle Club and Friends 4 Life Social Club on Monday made the rounds to Florence City Schools' elementary schools.Â
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Jordan Caradonna has had an interest in interior design and architecture for as long as she can remember. In fact, as a child, she jokes that while she loved Disney shows like “Hannah Montanna,†she could often be found glued to the television watching Chip and Joanna Gaines flip another hou…
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SHOALS — We've made a list and checked it twice — here are the dates for Christmas break for students around the Shoals:Â
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FLORENCE — The University of North Alabama's winter commencement will be Friday and Saturday at Norton Auditorium with five ceremonies and commencement addresses from two alumni.
FLORENCE — The University of North Alabama's winter commencement will be Friday and Saturday at Norton Auditorium with five ceremonies and commencement addresses from two alumni.
MONTGOMERY — Once estimated to cost around $62 million, the Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences may now cost as much as $80 million, according to Rob Pearson, chair of the school’s fund-raising foundation.
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BIRMINGHAM — Alabama students could face a statewide ban on cell phone use during the school day as soon as the 2026-27 school year under a new bill aimed at reducing classroom distractions and improving academic outcomes.
BALTIMORE — A federal judge on Friday ruled that the U.S. Naval Academy can continue considering race in its admissions process, ruling that military cohesion and other national security factors mean the officer training school should not be subjected to the same standards as civilian universities.
MONTGOMERY — Leaders from Alabama’s historically Black colleges and universities met recently with the head of state law enforcement to discuss how to make their campuses and communities safer.
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FLORENCE — Florence Middle School students this week baked Christmas cookies and candies galore.Â
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FLORENCE — Cheers resounded through the chilly air on Wednesday morning outside of Mars Hill Bible School.
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SHEFFIELD — Bass vibrated through the Sheffield High School gymnasium on Wednesday as a DJ mixed music.
TUSCALOOSA — The history of the chili pepper is in some ways the history of humanity in the Americas, says Dr. Katherine Chiou, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama.
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FLORENCE — One Shoals school system and nine individual schools will share a portion of $1.5 million in STEM grants being awarded by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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FLORENCE — School systems across the Shoals reported mixed enrollment reports for the 2024-25 school year.Â
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FLORENCE — Like many Americans, Lloyd Jones plans to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday morning.
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BIRMINGHAM — Spending on Alabama’s K-12 students went up across the board, according to spending data released by the Alabama Department of Education.
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BIRMINGHAM — Alabama’s public school students could soon be learning more Alabama and U.S. history if the state board of education approves new social studies standards.
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FLORENCE — Crossroads Community Outreach will host two Friendsgivings events from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.Â
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BIRMINGHAM – Alabama State Superintendent Eric Mackey on Tuesday was elected president of the Council of Chief State School Officers at its annual policy forum in Phoenix, Arizona.
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TUSCUMBIA — Nathan Fuller has officially assumed the role of superintendent of Colbert County Schools.Â
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ education board voted Friday to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools, joining other Republican-led states that pushed this year to give religion a larger presence in public classrooms.
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FLORENCE — Third- through sixth-grade Riverhill School students on Thursday had a nontraditional Thanksgiving feast.Â
WASHINGTON — The federal FAFSA form used to apply for college financial aid opened to high school seniors nationwide on Thursday, a year after a disastrous rollout by the Biden administration delayed the application for months.
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