Alabama is the latest state to consider a change to school funding formulas. Mississippi changed its formula earlier year. Tennessee changed its formula in 2022.

With one legislative session finished and the next about eight months away, Alabama legislators will spend the time in between deciding whether to develop an entirely new school funding formula.

According to a breakdown of funding created by the Alabama State Department of Education, Mobile County and Jefferson County schools will receive the most money from the Raise Act in the 2026 ...

Alabama’s schools chief wants $799 million more for K-12, new budget proposal shows Alabama board of education members got a first look at State Superintendent Eric Mackey’s spending ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Bellwether, a group that analyzes education funding nationwide, says Alabama’s schools need more money.The nonprofit says the state’s current education funding system doesn ...

The school system covered the cost of all school supplies for Title I schools. Schools that qualified for Title I funding had ...

There’s a pamphlet in the Alabama Department of Archives and History written by Booker T. Washington. It’s called “How To Build Up A Good School in the South” and dates from the first ...

Whether by intention or accident, the Alabama Legislature has spent the last 11 years separating public money from public schools. We don’t have a lot of that money to begin with.

Managing Alabama’s school funding problems isn’t fixing them. Brian Lyman. Mon, July 15, 2024 at 11:59 AM UTC. 5 min read. Students in a hallway.

Alabama schools have been notified that a federal grant meant for the state will be released. At the end of June, the U.S. Department of Education paused billions of dollars in grant funding for ...

This money was expected to be available on July 1, but according to an email sent by Alabama State Superintendent Dr. Eric Mackey to superintendents, his office was not notified of the review until ...

Using spending figures broken down by school, The Alabama Education Lab looked at the relationship between school spending and test scores for the 2018-19 school year, before the pandemic hit.