Rep. Blaine Galliher
The chairman of the House Rules Committee, Blaine Galliher, has introduced a bill that would allow students to leave school for up to an hour a day to study creationism for class credit. The bill takes pains to make sure no public dollars are spent on what the bill itself describes as “religious instruction.”
Dan Carsen, from the Southern Education Desk, interviewed Galliher about the bill.
Gallier says that the bill is typical of what’s already legal in other states, including Georgia and Florida. Meanwhile, constitutional law scholar Douglas Laycock says that the bill is unlike any that he’s seen before.
Despite Jefferson County’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing and default on variable rate demand warrant, Standard & Poor’s will leave the county with a C credit rating, the Birmingham Business Journal reports. A downgrade would have taken the county’s credit to the lowest level, reserved mostly for debt that is in default.
With school choice and charter schools on the GOP’s agenda, Mabry’s private school choice could leave AEA vulnerable.
In wake of Alabama’s immigration reform bill, Hispanic students are disappearing from schools throughout the state. In Huntsville, a school superintendent has even gone on Spanish language television to assure parents that the law is not a threat to their children.
In a jailhouse interview with the Birmingham Business Journal, Richard Scrushy says he teaches business classes in prison, praises God and eats “chow.” The former HealthSouth CEO gripes about civil litigants taking his stuff, even his clothes.
