Tiny Glimmers of Hope

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, and while I am genuinely thankful for the kind group of parents who fix us a nice lunch or send some goodie bags, in Alabama their efforts are the icing for a cake that was never baked. I teach in a state that has made some of the biggest education cuts in the nation since the recession— cutting funding by 17.8% from 2008 to 2015. Just last year, when the state’s General Fund budget was short, the legislature took $80 million from the Education budget to rectify it. (For this most… Read more Tiny Glimmers of Hope →