PHOTO: Steve Flowers is Alabama’s leading political columnist. His weekly column appears in over 60 Alabama newspapers. He served 16 years in the state legislature. Steve may be reached at www.steveflowers.us. By…
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NACC and UAH partner in Joint Admissions Program
Featured image: University of Alabama Huntsville is partnering with NACC to offer dual-enrollment engineering courses By Staff Reports RAINSVILLE, Ala. — Northeast Alabama Community College (NACC) and the University of Alabama in…
ENT Graduates Score Above State and National Averages on NOCTI
Officials at Northeast Alabama Community College are pleased to announce that recent NACC Engineering Technician graduates who took the certification examination for Engineering Technicians through NOCTI (National Occupational Competency Testing Institute)…
Alabama’s Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program Continues to Lead the Nation in Quality for the Ninth Year in a Row
MONTGOMERY— Alabama’s First Class Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program continues to lead the nation in quality for the ninth year in a row, according to a new study released Tuesday. Alabama is one of…
The Long Term Investment (Opinion by Mary Scott Hunter)
Psalm 127:3 has gone out on every one of my three children's birth announcements. It reads, "Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him." This is always…
The "Winds of Change" in Alabama Public Education
I was reminded at church last week that Lent is a time for the heart and the mind to change. Spring has also sprung in North Alabama, and the budding trees…
DeKalb BOE Rep Mary Scott Hunter Updates the District
Dual Enrollment Success! Dual Enrollment is on the rise! Alabama Public High School Students are also enrolling in Alabama's Community Colleges, and in some cases, students are even graduating from high…
Alabama BOE Rep Mary Scott Hunter Updates the District
Greetings! Alabama's graduation rate reached 86 percent in 2013. Only 72 percent of Alabama high school students walked across a stage and were handed a diploma just three years ago. That number…