2015 WorkKeys Assessments for Alabama Schools and Systems

Click here to print this post In 2015, for the first time, all high school seniors took a new assessment Read the full release.  


2015 ACT Results by System and High School

Click here to print this post. We now have the 2015 results for the ACT, the widely-known test of college Read the full release.  


2015 Aspire Results for Systems and Schools

Want to explore how your local public school system or school performed on the statewide benchmark test, the ACT Aspire? Read the full release.  


PARCA Annual Meeting Additional Materials

PARCA’s Annual Meeting was held in Birmingham on Friday, February 5. Its focus was Alabama’s process for formulating budgets. PARCA’s Read the full release.  


Resources for Understanding Alabama's Budget Process

By on February 1st, 2016 in , , : in State & Local Government

As February approaches, the Legislature is preparing to return to Montgomery for yet another tough session of struggling with Alabama’s Read the full release.  


PARCA Annual Survey of Public Opinion 2016

In January 2016, The Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama conducted its annual poll of public opinion. This is the Read the full release.  


College-Going Rates by High School

The Alabama Commission on Higher Education has produced a new set of data that gives a more complete picture of Read the full release.  


Lowest Per Capita Tax Collections in the Nation

By on December 4th, 2015 in , : in State & Local Government

Alabama once again ranks last in per capita state and local tax collections, according to new data released by the Read the full release.  


Education Trust Fund Grows but School Spending Still Behind

Receipts to Alabama’s Education Trust Fund grew by 4.2 percent in FY2015, according to year-end revenue reports, allowing the state Read the full release.  


From Governing: How Mobile, Alabama, Used Instagram to Address Blight

Like many cities, Mobile, Ala., didn’t even know how many blighted properties it had. Instagram offered a cheap and simple Read the full release.