MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Properly educating students who are learning English as a second language is proving to be a significant challenge for Montgomery County schools. Students who don’t speak English as their primary language make up nearly one-quarter of the student population and the Montgomery Advertiser reports that adequate funding and training for teachers don’t exist, causing caseloads be…
The school accrediting agency AdvancED has presented an updated report to the Montgomery County school board. That report shows the school system is making improvements in its ongoing accreditation process. School system officials say an initial review in March 2018 showed eight of the nine areas below standards. Today’s report showed five of the nine areas meeting standards. Four others…
Montgomery Public School Board members are revisiting the idea of charter conversion schools for 3 Montgomery Public Schools. Charter schools have been a hot topic for MPS. Board President Clare Weil says, that in order to move forward, the board needs more information, which is why she invited a representative from the Montgomery Education Foundation to Tuesday’s board meeting. If…
Hyundai Motor America has announced that it will donate $250,000 for STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Math) education in Montgomery Public Schools. This comes through the company’s Hyundai ST Math Initiative with the MIND Research Institute. Hyundai says this will benefit more than 3,000 students at five elementary schools including Catoma, T.S. Morris, Morningview, Seth Johnson and Brewbaker. Hyundai executives will host city dignitaries and…
Montgomery Public Schools officials are investigating an incident overnight at Park Crossing High School where they say parts of the outside of the school and a system vehicle were vandalized. While the investigation is still ongoing, they say more than 20 students have been identified from video footage. School Superintendent Ann Moore says there will be penalties for these actions….
MPS Board Member Lesa Keith says Tuesday’s approval from the board of cutting 140 teacher positions, was one of the toughest. “You cannot have the decreasing students that we have and maintain the same personnel,” says Keith. MPS Board President Clare Weil is hoping the public will now buy into the system’s efforts to increase student success rates by increasing…
At a special called meeting of the Montgomery County school board this afternoon, board members approved making cuts to the number of teachers and to various services. The school system is faced with a $10 million deficit. It must maintain $19.7 million in reserves. As a result, board members approved cutting 140 teacher positions for next school year. About half…
Montgomery Police have charged a 15-year-old boy with possession of a weapon on school property after they say he brought a toy gun onto a Montgomery Public Schools bus Friday morning. The teen was also charged with harassment after a dispute with a female student while they waited to get on the bus. Police say they stopped the bus after…
Alabama News Network has confirmed that a Park Crossing High School student was arrested and charged with having a loaded gun at school this morning. Tom Salter, a spokesman for Montgomery Public Schools says the student was a 16-year-old male. The student was also charged with marijuana possession. Salter says the student was stopped by a school administrator and searched….
MPS Superintendent Ann Roy Moore says she’s not sure if anything can prevent a student who really wants to get into a school with a gun, but the system won’t stop doing everything possible to stop them anyway. She says there are 99 doors leading into Lee and its outbuildings, and the school opened in 1955. The age of the…
