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		<title>Goodbye. But only for a moment</title>
		<link>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/10/14/goodbye-but-only-for-a-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2016 19:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the last day the Alabama School Connection will publish new content. It&#8217;s time to say goodbye. But only for a moment. Beginning Monday, I will begin a new job as statewide education reporter for Alabama Media Group, publishing online at al.com. I&#8217;m thrilled to be given the oppor...]]></description>
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		<title>Special Education Services Division Complaint Resolved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last March, a copy of an anonymous complaint alleging work environment concerns in the Special Education Services (SES) division of the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) landed in the Alabama School Connection&#8217;s post office box. ALSDE officials said they have closed the complaint a...]]></description>
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		<title>Enrollment Opens for Alabama&#8217;s Non-Traditional High School Diploma</title>
		<link>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/10/05/enrollment-opens-for-alabamas-non-traditional-high-school-diploma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students who didn&#8217;t earn a diploma before they left high school now have the opportunity to go back and do so. In July, the state board of education approved the &#8220;nontraditional high school diploma&#8221;, providing pathways for students who either dropped out of high school without earn...]]></description>
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		<title>Some Answers About the Alabama Accountability Act from New Reports Mandated by Law</title>
		<link>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/10/02/some-answers-about-the-alabama-accountability-act-from-new-reports-mandated-by-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 01:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first full round of new reports required as a results of changes made to the Alabama Accountability Act (AAA) in 2015 are in. Those reports answer a lot of questions, but some questions remain unanswered about the effectiveness of the program. For basic information on the AAA, click here. Initia...]]></description>
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		<title>State Department Violated Federal Disability Laws, Test Accommodation Policy Must Be Rewritten</title>
		<link>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/09/26/state-department-violated-federal-disability-laws-test-accommodation-policy-must-be-re-written/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 02:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alabama State Department of Education must rewrite the policy outlining who qualifies for testing accommodations after the U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) found the current policy violates rights of students with disabilities. That mandate comes as a result of ...]]></description>
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		<title>What the Annual Alabama &#8220;School Incident Report&#8221; Shows</title>
		<link>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/09/21/what-the-annual-alabama-school-incident-report-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2016 00:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each summer, the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) releases the annual &#8220;Student Incident Report&#8221; (SIR) by school. It is a compilation of numbers of students involved in violations at school, reported online via the SIR system. Any and every incident resulting in an ALSDE-defi...]]></description>
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		<title>Alabama’s A-F School Grading System Is Almost Ready</title>
		<link>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/09/14/alabamas-a-f-school-grading-system-is-almost-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This December, Alabamians will finally see letter grades linked to accountability measures for each of our nearly 1,400 public schools. Plans are being finalized for the A-F school grading system, and the most recent draft, assumed to be final, was presented at September’s state board of education w...]]></description>
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		<title>Wanna Know More About Who Gets Paddled in Alabama&#8217;s Schools?</title>
		<link>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/09/12/wanna-know-more-about-who-gets-paddled-in-alabamas-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alabama Media Group and Alabama School Connection collaborated on this story, published Monday morning, about paddling in Alabama&#8217;s schools. We learned this morning that nearly 19,000 students were paddled in Alabama&#8217;s schools during the 2013-2014 school year according to federal data re...]]></description>
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		<title>More Than 90,000 Alabama Students and Nearly 15,000 Teachers Missed a LOT of School &#8211; Look Up Your School</title>
		<link>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/09/01/more-than-90000-alabama-students-and-nearly-15000-teachers-missed-a-lot-of-school-look-up-your-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of eight students in Alabama&#8217;s public schools missed fifteen or more days of school in the 2013-2014 school year. (Out of 180 school days in each academic year.) That sounds bad, but consider this: nearly one in THREE Alabama school teachers missed more than TEN days (two weeks) of school ...]]></description>
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		<title>How Alabama Compares in the Latest ACT College and Career Readiness Report</title>
		<link>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/08/24/how-alabama-compares-in-the-latest-act-college-and-career-readiness-report/</link>
		<comments>http://alabamaschoolconnection.org/2016/08/24/how-alabama-compares-in-the-latest-act-college-and-career-readiness-report/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Trisha Powell Crain]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers are hard sometimes. Particularly in education, particularly in Alabama. So many easy (and often unflattering) comparisons to make. A quick scan of where Alabama&#8217;s graduates stand in ACT&#8217;s newly-released College and Career Readiness Report for 2016 might get the typical &#8220;tha...]]></description>
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