free, comprehensive, easy-to-use website with mobile access that offers parents and caregivers, families, and teachers a one-stop connection to programs and services in Alabama. Programs, tools and information on child care, education, family services and health services can all be found on the site.
“Alabama Family Central will assist Alabama citizens to continue to build strong healthy families by ensuring parents and children in our state have access to crucial information and resources from numerous state agencies, service providers and non-profit organizations,” Governor Ivey said. “Great parents need strong partners. I thank the state agencies and other partners for this wonderful new resource,” Ivey continued.
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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND Act 2011, was enacted with a board “charged with responsibility for imposing, managing and disbursing The Education Tax to public tertiary education institutions in Nigeria; and for related matters”. It was originally set up as the Education Trust Fund in the 1990s to plug the funding gap in higher education. Nigeria was then under military rule, and in constant battle with the union clamouring for better infrastructure for universities amidst dwindling resources. Public education is funded, or should we say, subsidised by government to minimise cost to students, especially those from poor backgrounds. It is equally true that Nigerian universities have been starved of funds by successive governments, as a result of which standards have fallen in those institutions. So, the idea of imposing a two per cent tax on registered (private) companies in Nigeria to go directly to tertiary institutions to help in researc
How to watch: Alabama legislators hear education budget requests in preparation for session
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
The annual budget hearings come in preparation for the legislative session, which starts next Tuesday.
Lawmakers will hear budget requests for K-12 public schools, community colleges, universities, and prekindergarten.
Today’s meeting is closed to the public because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Legislature passed the state’s largest ever education budget (not adjusted for inflation) last year. It calls for spending $7.2 billion from the Education Trust Fund in fiscal year 2021, about $90 million more than in 2020.
Although still larger than in 2020, the budget was scaled back after the pandemic reduced projected tax revenues.
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In this article, our focus will be on the significant changes
being proposed to other extant tax and fiscal legislations.
On Thursday 8 October 2020, His Excellency, President Muhammadu
Buhari presented the 2021 Budget Proposal to the Joint session of
the National Assembly. While delivering the budget presentation
speech, the President also announced that the Finance Bill 2021
would be presented to the National Assembly for consideration and
passage into law. On Wednesday 18 November 2020, the Federal
Executive Council (FEC), presided over by the President approved
the Finance Bill 2021.