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Lawmakers discuss education pay raises, a focus on literacy and learning loss
By CAROLINE BECK and MARY SELL Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Pay raises for teachers are possible in next...

Alabama schools ask for COVID-19 enrollment funding fix in 2022
Alabama’s public schools saw a decrease in enrollment of about 9,700 students this year, according to the official count taken early in the school year. That's problematic in a state that bases school funding on the previous year's enrollment.

Daily News Digest – January 26, 2021
Tornado rips through Fultondale; Budget hearings begin today; AEA pushes for teacher vaccinations; Biden talks upping vaccine goal amid criticism; The latest from Congress

1 dead, at least 17 injured after tornado rips Alabama town
A teenager huddling in his basement was killed and several of his family members were critically injured when a tornado blew a tree onto their home in Alabama and it collapsed on top of them, police said Tuesday.

Legislative budget hearings begin today
Joint budget hearings of the Alabama Senate and House of Representatives, a sort of prequel to the official start of the Legislative session, begin today.

AEA: ‘Education employees are dying,’ seeks vaccinations
The Alabama Education Association is urging the state to give teachers COVID-19 vaccinations following the deaths of at least 39 public school employees from the contagious illness.
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Daily News Digest – January 26, 2021
Tornado rips through Fultondale; Budget hearings begin today; AEA pushes for teacher vaccinations; Biden talks upping vaccine goal amid criticism; The latest from Congress
Daily News Digest – January 25, 2021
White House, Congress begin talks on COVID relief; Impeachment articles to be transmitted, GOP opposed; Report: Improvements needed in state's suicide prevention efforts; State launches Alabama Family Central website; Remembering Hammerin' Hank
Weekend Digest – January 24, 2021
Supply issues hinder vaccine efforts, Harris explains gaps in distribution; 2 in 5 Americans live where COVID strains hospital ICUs; For Lloyd Austin, racism challenge is personal; In first days, Biden flashes action; Hank Aaron, baseball’s one-time home run king, dies at 86
Daily News Digest – January 22, 2021
Mask mandate extended; Virus changes speech plans; In the Weeds with Cam Ward; Unemployment rate drops to 3.9%; Biden immigration plan opposed by GOP, conservative groups
Daily News Digest – January 21, 2021
Biden takes office; Henry talks about his pardon; Health officials urge Ivey to extend mask order; Stocks are rallying; Inside Alabama Politics
Daily News Digest – January 20, 2021
Inauguration Day; Trump says farewell, issues pardons; Robbins wins in HD33; Lawmakers call on ADPH to fix 'kink' in vaccine recording; News Briefs
Daily News Digest – January 19, 2021
Jittery district: Inauguration rehearsal evacuated after fire; It's Election Day in HD33; Don't look now, but Alabama's COVID-19 numbers are getting better; Biden to propose 8-year citizen path for immigrants; Bama hoops enters Top 25
Daily News Digest – January 18, 2021
State capital cities prepare for protests; FBI vetting Guard troops in DC; What will a 50-50 Senate look like? Alabama funeral homes strained; Latest Tuberville 'gaffe' wasn't one at all