Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (right) opens the meeting of the Alabama State Board of Education on Feb. 13, 2025 as Alabama State Schools Superintendent Eric Mackey looks on. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector) ...

The Alabama Board of Education has approved the state’s first non-college-based alternative teacher preparation program, a move the schools chief said could help with the state’s teacher shortage.

Telkia Jones, a fifth grade teacher at Charles Brown Elementary School in Birmingham, Alabama, high fives a student on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Alabama’s State Board of Education has launched a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama State Board of Education is undertaking a significant overhaul of its teacher certification ...