The Business Education Alliance of Alabama (BEA), with PARCA as its research partner, has released its 2026 report, HIGHER EXPECTATIONS Read the full release.  

Each year, PARCA uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of State and Local Financesto compare Alabama’s tax Read the full release.  

A federally required change in reporting on student race and ethnicity in Alabama public schools has led to a precipitous Read the full release.  

Mapping Alabama’s Public–Nonprofit Partnership examines how Alabama’s nonprofit sector functions as an essential partner in the delivery of public services. Read the full release.  

New research indicates that lower fines and fees raise more revenue than higher ones, and that a “collections fee” that Read the full release.  

More Alabama public high school graduates than ever are going to four-year colleges directly after graduation, according to the most Read the full release.  

Tax revenues flowing into Alabama state government returned to a more normal rate of growth in 2025, after several years Read the full release.  

Alabama students continued steady improvement in English and math across all grade levels on the state’s suite of standardized tests, Read the full release.  

This is the first in our new Keys to Success series. The series spotlights schools and school systems that outperform Read the full release.  

Halfway through 2025, Birmingham’s homicide total is half what it was midyear 2024, a dramatic turnaround after a year of Read the full release.