The first state report on the $50 million tax credit Gov. Brad Little signed in 2025 finds the average parent who got it earned $178,000 a year, and only a quarter of the kids it paid for had ever gone to a public school.
A State Library Board made up entirely of Sarah Sanders appointees votes Friday on rules that would make public libraries keep 'sexually explicit' books from anyone 16 and under — a definition that covers any image of human genitalia, including puberty books and art books — or lose their state funding.
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Brandon Gill is running an entire congressional task force dedicated to fighting the culture wars, wasting taxpayer money hauling in the American Bar Association just to police what law schools are allowed to teach.
Tiffany posted that a student drag show at Madison East High was 'unacceptable.' Isthmus obtained about 50 emails the principal got in the next two days — most accusing staff of pedophilia or grooming, one implying she'd be better off drowned. The school asked police for officers. Tiffany then boosted a Libs of TikTok post that included her contact details.
Running for governor, Tommy Tuberville told a GOP crowd that some Alabama public schools have 'animals running the zoo' and that taking money away from them will make them better. In the voucher program he backs, about 71% of the students using the money for private school were already in private school.
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Robert Aderholt wrote a spending bill that completely eliminates adult and youth job training programs.
Released as early voting opened, Tiffany's plan would require parental consent before a student can go by a different name or pronouns at school, ban transgender students from the bathrooms and locker rooms that match who they are, and bar 'gender transition procedures' for anyone under 18.
Two new reports find the Trump DOJ has moved to end or stopped defending desegregation cases covering 56 school districts in 12 states, often without asking a judge to find the discrimination was fixed, and dropped at least 36 race discrimination cases — including settlements already won.
Five state-funded charter schools have paid more than $30 million to companies run by Erika Donalds, and one is about to pay $15.7 million more. Byron Donalds's own disclosures show most of the family's wealth comes from her companies — and he wants to be the governor who signs the school budget.
