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 [...]
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 [...]
A House committee Tuesday afternoon approved a $5.7 billion Education Trust Fund budget that includes a two percent raise for teachers and support personnel, liability insurance for teachers and about $12 million more for voluntary pre-kindergarten programs. The House Ways and Means Education committee approved the budget on a 9 to 3 vote that fell [...]
The Alabama Education Association has filed a new lawsuit against a controversial bill extending tax credits to families of students in failing schools to be used in private or non-failing public schools and tax deductions for those who contribute to scholarship organizations for non-public schools. The suit, filed late Monday, restates most of the same [...]
Beaten in its first attempt to block a controversial tuition tax credit bill, the Alabama Education Association will go another round over the measure. AEA executive secretary Henry Mabry said Thursday the organization plans to file another lawsuit against HB 84, which was signed into law by Gov. Robert Bentley Thursday morning. “The implementation of [...]