Weekly Update: A charter school bill dies in Alabama and more testing pushback
Note: Some extraneous links have mysteriously appeared in this post that I am not able to get rid of. I apologize for this annoyance and am working to rectify this issue.Alabama, as Washington, does not have charter schools and for several very good reasons. See The Charter School Myths.
One of the reasons that Alabama opposes charter schools was stated by a member of the Alabama Education Association:
Dr. Henry Mabry, executive secretary of the Alabama Education Association, consistently told lawmakers during the session that the state didn’t need a dual system of schools when it couldn’t afford to adequately fund the single system it has.
Mabry noted the state has lost more than 12,500 education employees since 2008, and stands to