Gov. Robert Bentley quietly signed the state’s two budgets into law Monday, budgets that include a two percent pay raise for teachers but no equivalent increase for state employees. Besides the raise, the $5.765 billion Education Trust Fund budget includes a relatively small $3.9 million increase for the two-year college system, an extra $1.5 million [...]
Gov. Robert Bentley encouraged lawmakers to roll back the implementation of some portions of possibly the most controversial bill of this legislative session, a bill that would allow parents of children in failing schools to receive tax credits to use in private schools or non-failing public schools, for two years. Bentley, speaking on Wednesday to the Alabama [...]
The Alabama Legislature voted on Thursday to remove the executive secretary of the Alabama Education Association from the board that oversees the Teachers’ Retirement System in Alabama and replace him with people representing universities. The House approved the bill 61-42 and the Senate voted 17-14 to agree. The bill now goes to Gov. Robert Bentley [...]
The Alabama Senate approved an education budget on Tuesday that included funding for a 2 percent pay raise for educators, the first since 2007, and $40 million to fund the Alabama Accountability Act, the law that allows parents with children in failing schools to earn a tax credit to use at a private school or [...]
A House committee Wednesday approved legislation that would add two representatives of four-year colleges to the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, while removing AEA executive secretary Henry Mabry and an elected support personnel representative. Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, the sponsor of the bill, said representatives of four-year colleges needed seats on a [...]