Alabama public schools suffer most significant loss of students in decades

Alabama public schools suffer most significant loss of students in decades ...Statewide enrollment fell by about 5,800 students this year according to their yearly audit of enrollment, which runs from October to October each year. Alabama State Superintendent, Eric Mackey, said more than 3,000 students left the public school system for private or home schooling through the state's new CHOOSE Act . However, roughly 2,100 students are currently unaccounted for... Reference: www.waaytv.com
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Wicked North Alabama | Amazon Paperback

Wicked North Alabama | Amazon Paperback

Thoughts of Alabama invite images of Confederate jasmine and fertile cotton fields, sweet iced tea and Southern hospitality, but there's a darker side to the state's history. Some of the stories captured within the pages of this book are well known to the good folks of North Alabama; others are less familiar. The scandals of Lincoln's brother-in-law, the reign of terror created by Huntsville's Southwest Molester, the Decatur man who buried his wife's dismembered body under the fish pond and the beautiful Black Widow of Hazel Green--all of these stories are well researched and masterfully written by Huntsville author Jacquelyn Procter Reeves. True-crime fans will appreciate this treasury of stories spanning nearly two hundred years of North Alabama history.

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