Under a bill pre-filed for the legislative session, Alabama public school students who repeatedly violate rules restricting the use of cell phones in classrooms would be subject to fines. The bill, which aims to emphasize the seriousness of the issue, does not specify any amounts of fines or other specifics on penalties.
Joeshannon Kimble saw struggling students. And she wanted to help. In 2022, Kimble had taught various grades in the district for 25 years. She knew, though, that local middle school students were struggling academically. And she wanted to change that trajectory.
“I think that’s very clear that they’re trying to open the pathway to more folks who couldn’t meet the first set of rules,” State Superintendent Eric Mackey told AL.com Tuesday.
Other priorities for Ivey include school security, replacing technology devices, funding the turnaround school initiative and ensuring the Numeracy Act and Literacy Act, which push for improvements in math and reading, are funded.
State Superintendent Eric Mackey told board members in December that they couldn’t outright ban cell phones from schools, but he would like to give some additional guidance to districts.
An Alabama state representative has filed a bill that would allow high school athletes to make money off of their image. The bill is limited to the athlete and does not allow the use of “marks, including a school logo, school name, school mascot, or trademarked logo or acronym of an athletic association.”
The Alabama Board of Education plans to make minor changes to its science course of study, but has no plans to remove a textbook insert, used since 1995, that calls evolution a “controversial theory.”
Statewide, enrollment has rebounded from declines during the pandemic, but there are 9,100 fewer students compared to 10 years ago. National figures show birth rates have been declining, so the drop isn’t entirely unexpected.
The new program is spreading across Alabama as schools have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in high-tech vape sensors to catch children puffing in bathrooms and locker rooms.
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