Despite the claims of activists, the Alabama textbook adoption process is a complex legal pathway with a number of steps to get books into the classroom.
Superintendent Eric Mackey said high-poverty schools are showing “remarkable growth” and receiving “Cs” on the report card but remain on the failing list.
The Alabama schools superintendent said Thursday afternoon that state laws that label a set number of schools as "failing" were meant to humiliate struggling communities and push scholarships to private schools.