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.  

Despite the healthy economy, the state’s General Fund posted its usual sputtering performance in 2015, according to the state’s year-end Read the full release.  

The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) is a battery of tests given every two years to a representative sample Read the full release.  

K-12 education has been, in recent years, the subject of a massive amount of data-gathering and analysis. From individual classrooms Read the full release.  

With the passage of the state’s general fund budget last week, PARCA Senior Research Associate Tom Spencer took a moment Read the full release.  

Alabama’s 2015 graduating class was the first in which all students took the well-known college readiness test, the ACT. New Read the full release.  

With the Governor and Legislature still at odds over how to solve a $250 million shortfall in the state’s General Read the full release.  

PARCA’s new Teachers Matter report, commissioned by the Business Education Alliance, identifies Alabama-specific strategies for recruiting and retaining teachers. The Read the full release.  

Alabama public schools have made substantial progress in raising high school graduation rates, but must continue to improve student performance on Read the full release.  

PARCA continues to explore the results of the state’s new standardized test, the Aspire, and is developing new ways of Read the full release.