Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Education Funding

     School funding in Alabama has always been less than needed....now some parents in two rural North Alabama Counties have filed suit trying to force the state to provide adequate funding.

     One of the first witnesses, for the parents, was Auburn History Professor Wayne Flynt, who recalled the state's experience at the start of WWI:





...when a large number of would-be soldiers from Alabama were rejected because they were illiterate.


     Th Huntsville Times has a complete story online here.

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