As Moms for Liberty has worked to elect sympathetic school board candidates, board takeovers have replayed in school districts across the country, from California to Colorado, Florida to New York.
Category: Education
After its rural hospital closed, this community tried a new approach to healthcare
The only hospital in rural Pickens County, Ala., closed its doors for good just two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. It was March 2020. The west Alabama county sits […]
Working parents find few solutions as school looms
Every time Priscilla and Ellery Curtis begin talking about what to do about school in a few weeks for their two children, the discussion grinds […]
Half of Alabama’s daycares are still closed.
Every two weeks, Melissa Moody draws a little more money from her personal savings and puts it into the day care she’s been operating in […]
Daycares can reopen but will parents return?
Alabama day cares can open if they keep fewer than 12 kids to a classroom, according to Gov. Kay Ivey’s “safer at home” order, announced […]
What happens when a religious boarding school gets raided in Alabama? It ends up in Missouri.
Deputies raided Pastor Gary Wiggins’ religious boarding school in rural Alabama after two boys escaped to a neighbor’s house and said they were victims of […]
Paddling is legal, but teachers still get arrested for it
In 2015, the assistant principal at Escambia County Middle School was indicted for child abuse after paddling a fifth-grader. The boy had been disruptive during […]
Teachers talk school safety in era of mass shootings: ‘I would take a bullet for them’
“Teachers, we’re going into lockdown.” When Brittney Etheridge, a teacher at Dawson Elementary School in Huntsville, hears those words over the school intercom, she knows […]
Alabama law reins in religious boot camps
Less than a year after my religious boot camp story published, Alabama lawmakers passed a law that requires these schools to be licensed and regulated. […]
Christian boot camps and Alabama loopholes
I spent a couple of months researching and interviewing for this piece, which I posted last week. Former students share harrowing stories of life inside […]