For Immediate Release: Contact: Deborah Love (205) 587.6534 Since he was hired, Eagle Forum of Alabama maintained continuous contact with Superintendent Michael Sentance and offered our support on issues of importance to academics in Alabama schools. We wish him well in his future endeavors. We were disappointed that the Superintendent did not replace common core […]
Announcement: Sharman Ramsey is a Dothan native and President of the newly formed Panama City, Florida Eagle Forum Chapter. See her below with Eunie Smith (Eagle Forum National President and President of Eagle Forum of Alabama) and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Please contact your State Board of Education Member to vote against the ESSA Plan With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (the replacement for No a Child Left Behind), each state is submitting its ESSA implementation plan (The Plan) to the federal Department of Education. When approved by the State Board of […]
August 17, 2017 Eagle Forum of Alabama has conducted an extensive review on ESSA and the Consolidated State ESSA Plan (“The Plan”) for Alabama. Eagle Forum of Alabama has reviewed committee reports from the strategic planning committees formed by Superintendent Sentance and the Alabama Ascending Plan and has studied the ESSA Implementation documents and report […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Deborah Love, Executive Director (205) 879-7096 Eagle Forum joins all Alabamians in offering our prayers and deepest sympathy to the family and friends of the adorable five-year-old boy who authorities report died while in the care of an employee at Community Nursery and Preschool Academy in West Mobile. The fact that […]
At its Work Session August 10, the State School Board heard a presentation by Supt. Sentance that was prompted by a resolution he offered to the Board to rescind common core. That presentation and the subsequent discussion can be viewed here beginning at 1:06. Visuals can be found here: Although the resolution provides for a vote […]
Authoritative Books/Papers on Common Core Common Ground on Common Core: Voices from across the Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of the CCSS Edited by Kirsten Lombard, Resounding Books, Madison, WI, 2015 Drilling through the Core: Why Common Core is Bad for American Education, Peter Wood, Ed., Pioneer Inst., 2015 The Long War and Common Core, […]
President Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday that he will ban transgender people from serving in the military in any capacity, reversing an Obama administration decision to allow them to serve openly and drawing dismay and anger from advocates. Citing the need to focus on what he called “decisive and overwhelming victory,” Trump said that the military […]
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