Dial Committee Gets To Work
By Larry Lee Education Matters The committee created by Senators Gerald Dial and Quinton Ross to find out how anonymous info given to the state school board made its way into public heard from their...
View ArticleDoing it for the kids
By Larry Lee Education Matters “I did not know the rules.” These words won’t leave my head. Round and round, “I did not know the rules.” The reply given by state school board member Mary Scott Hunter...
View ArticleThe irony of righteous indignation
Education Matters By Larry Lee When State Superintendent of Education Mike Sentance told the State School Board Dec. 8, that the Office of Inspector General of the US Department of Education had...
View ArticleAPR’s Top 5 Under-reported stories of 2016
By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter Over the past year, APR has broken a number of prominent, statewide stories. While many of those have been picked up by other news outlets – some of them lifted...
View ArticleMore questions on “smear sheet” investigation: Who knew what when?
By Larry Lee Education Matters More than 40 years ago, the late Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker asked during the Watergate hearings, “What did the President know and when did he know it?” I...
View ArticleA dumb political scheme
By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter Political schemes are dirty. The backroom dealings, backstabbing, lies, trickery, illegal acts and coverups represent the absolute worst in our government...
View ArticleSenate committee unable to determine leak of Pouncey ethics complaint
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — A committee headed by Sen. Gerald Dial (R-Lineville) was unable to get to the bottom of who publicly distributed a letter last summer confirming...
View ArticleMary Scott Hunter running for Lt. Governor
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Wednesday, May 31, 2017 State Board of Education member Mary Scott Hunter (R) is running for Lieutenant Governor in the 2018 election. Hunter told the...
View ArticleSources: State Board plans to fire Superintendent Michael Sentance
By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama State School Board plans to fire State Superintendent Michael Sentance, two source close to the board have told APR. Those sources, who spoke on...
View ArticleIn praise of doing what’s right
By Larry Lee Education Matters Ain’t no way 11 months ago I would ever write what I am now writing. That’s because I had just watched state school board member Stephanie Bell raise her hand on Aug. 11...
View ArticleState Superintendent Michael Sentance Resigns
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter When the Alabama School Board chose Massachusetts Attorney Michael Sentance to be the Superintendent of Alabama’s school systems it was a controversial...
View ArticleSchool Board to hold state superintendent interviews as early as April
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama State School Board has voted to extend Interim State Superintendent Ed Richardson’s contract until the end of June. According to the timeline...
View ArticleDebate over formation of city school boards dominates Senate committee meeting
By Samuel Mattison Alabama Political Reporter One committee meeting in the statehouse on Wednesday was met with debates over the qualifications to start a school board by city governments. The bill,...
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Billing records show Balch attorneys played substantial role in state...
Billing records obtained by the Alabama Political Reporter show that attorneys from the law firm Balch & Bingham were heavily involved in the Alabama State Department’s flawed superintendent search...
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Ivey signs resolution urging school board to hold nationwide search for next...
Friday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a resolution urging the Alabama Board of Education to broaden its search for a new superintendent. State Representative Randall Shedd, R-Cullman, expressed his...
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Opinion | Another abnormal Alabama superintendent search
Why can’t we just do normal stuff? What is it about government in Alabama — from the governor’s office to the state Legislature to probate judges to boards of education — that requires off-the-wall...
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A new state superintendent, more controversy
If the State Board of Education is picking a new superintendent, count on controversy. Eric Mackey, the head of the Superintendents of Alabama group, was selected as the state’s newest superintendent...
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Opinion | Warning: Your blood may boil
OK. It is not unusual for me to lose my cool in this very weird and very crazy political turmoil swirling around us. And why not when we are engulfed in adults acting like children? However, none of...
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