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Relentless Effort to Destroy Public Education

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Republicans, with the help of a few misguided Democrats, are hell-bent on destroying public education. They are moving with deliberate speed to privatize K-12 education through vouchers and charter schools—money from the state education budget funds both programs. We got started in this direction by President George H. W. Bush. I was invited to the … [Read more…]

Sometimes the Good Guys Win

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Washington County, in Southwest Alabama, though sparsely populated, has a long and significant history. The county has been around longer than the state of Alabama. St. Stephens, on the county’s northern border, was the Alabama territorial capital before there was officially an Alabama. It was a trading post, a steamboat landing for cargo headed downstream … [Read more…]