Tag: Birmingham City Schools
“This is an urgent situation. This is a crisis situation, and...
-Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, during “Rally for Reading,” on getting third graders to read on par with their peers or being held back under...
Investigation Underway at 2 Birmingham City Schools for Possible Testing Irregularities
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Birmingham City Schools is currently investigating reports of potential testing irregularities at two of its 43 schools and has handed...
Ramsay High School’s Jaidynn Perkins-Martin Headed to Yale University
By Nicole S. Daniel
The Birmingham Times
Jaidynn Perkins-Martin vividly remembers sitting in her living room waiting to see if she had been accepted into college....
Inside Birmingham City Schools Nationally-Recognized Career Academies
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
Loren Williams, a senior in the Ramsay High School Engineering Academy, this semester completed an internship with the Alabama Department...
Best of the BCS as 2022-2023 City School Year Winds Down
The Birmingham Times
A look at a few accomplishments for Birmingham City Schools and its students for the 2022-2023 school year from high marks by...
“I realized, by taking the [cosmetology] course, that I can actually...
-Jayla Buchanan, a junior in Woodlawn’s Academy of Business and Finance, on learning she could do hair and nails as a profession; The Birmingham...
Birmingham Board of Ed looking to sell downtown headquarters for $5.5M
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
The Birmingham Board of Education (BOE) on Tuesday approved a nonbinding letter of intent to sell its current headquarters building,...
Nearly 11,000 Birmingham Students Set to Hear Guest Readers on May...
BY PAT BYINGTON
bhamnow.com
On Thursday, May 4, volunteer guest readers will be in EVERY Birmingham City Schools’ pre-kindergarten through 5th-grade classroom at the same time...
Gustavo Perez: Birmingham School Student and Winner of the Princeton University...
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
When Gustavo Garcia Perez first joined the band at Birmingham's George Washington Carver High School in his freshman year, it...
Birmingham City Schools Making Significant Academic Progress
By Ryan Michaels
The Birmingham Times
The percentage of Birmingham City School students who scored at or above grade level in both math and English/language arts...