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4 days ago · Education JeffCo Commission Honors Walter Gonsoulin as Superintendent of the Year. Commissioners presented a proclamation to Jefferson County School Superintendent Walter Gonsoulin for having been named Alabama/Schneider Electric 2025 Superintendent of …
Martin Luther King’s 1963 Birmingham arrest spurred a Supreme …
Oct 19, 2022 · The case is Walker v. City of Birmingham, which ruled on the legal principles that allowed Bull Conner and Birmingham to jail Martin Luther King Jr. on Good Friday, 1963. Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy explains why the case continues to influence legal thinking during these tumultuous times.
Commission Sends $1 Billion Budget to Thursday’s Agenda
Sep 13, 2023 · Jefferson County Commission President Jimmie Stephens gave Commissioner Joe Knight a hearty handshake at the end of a nearly two-hour committee meeting of the commission, congratulating the finance chairman as the proposed 2024 fiscal budget went to the agenda of Thursday’s commission meeting.
Birmingham Renews Controversial Online Business License …
Sep 6, 2022 · Birmingham has renewed its contract with Avenu Insights & Analytics LLC, the company in charge of the city’s online business license renewal service. The renewal came despite misgivings from officials about complaints that the company’s customer service is subpar, so the city added a 90-day terminat
The History of the Birmingham City Schools - BirminghamWatch
Jun 2, 2019 · A timeline of Birmingham city schools. 1873: Board of School Trustees established 1874: Free School Established (renamed The Powell School 1883) 1883: John H. Phillips, superintendent (First Birmingham Schools superintendent, considered the architect of the first school system) Read m
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Birmingham-Southern College Closing After 168 Years Educating …
Mar 26, 2024 · Birmingham-Southern College is closing its doors May 31 after a nearly 18-month fight to overcome its financial shortfalls. The BSC board of trustees met Tuesday and decided to close the school after learning that a bill to lend the college $30 million from a state higher education loan fund was unlikely to pass the Legislature this year, according to a …
How Jefferson County Pulled Off a Billion-Dollar Refinancing to …
Feb 15, 2024 · Jimmie Stephens remembers he wasn’t proud of Jefferson County when he took office as a county commissioner in 2010. “I was embarrassed and ashamed of what Jefferson County had become and what its reputation was, in the state and in the nation,” recalled Stephens, now the president of the commissi
Phillips Academy - BirminghamWatch
Jun 6, 2019 · Phillips Academy (Source: Birmingham City Schools) Students: 703 Teachers: 41 Education Report Card 2017-2018: A (92). Failing Schools List: None. J.H. Phillips Academy is housed in the reconstructed space of one of Birmingham’s oldest school buildings but is one of the youngest schools in the Birmingham City Schools.
Sample Ballots for the 2022 General Election - BirminghamWatch
Oct 22, 2022 · Sample ballots for the Nov. 8 general election are now available. Follow the links below to see the candidates who will be on your ballots. You can mark your selections and print the ballot to take to the polls with you, if you like. Read more. Jefferson County sample ballot Shelby County sam