Award-winning children's book author Derrick Barnes was scheduled to visit three schools in Alabama during Black History Month. But just before Barnes' planned appearances in February, the invitation to Hoover and Alabaster City Schools was abruptly canceled.
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The school board also voted to ask the federal court to approve a future division of the school zone for South Shades Crest Elementary and Brock s Gap Intermediate into two separate K-5 school zones.