A rancorous legislative session ended Monday with Democrats throwing a few jabs at Republicans, and Republicans knocking out a proposal from Gov. Robert Bentley to delay the implementation of the controversial Accountability Act. The final day also ended with the state’s two budgets signed into law and a sweeping gun rights law headed to Bentley’s [...]
House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, said Monday morning he will recommend that House Republican caucus members vote to override Gov. Robert Bentley’s proposed two-year delay of implementation of tax credits and scholarships associated with the Alabama Accountability Act. The Speaker said he wanted to see changes to the law approved by the Legislature to go [...]
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, fighting back against critical comments from a top legislator, said Friday that he was never in favor of allowing people to use state tax dollars to go to private schools and said people in the state agree with him. “However it turns out, I may lose this battle but I’m on [...]
On the heels of a dust-up between Gov. Robert Bentley and Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, over proposed changes to the state’s controversial Accountability Act, Senate Democrats Friday reiterated their position on the law: Get rid of it. “You can’t fix a bad bill, and the only thing we can do to help [...]
Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, expressing his disappointment in Gov. Robert Bentley and using his own words against him, vowed the Senate would kill his proposed changes to the Alabama Accountability Act, a controversial law that allows parents of children in failing schools to receive tax credits to use at private schools or non-failing [...]