SB443 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Scott Beason
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Jimmy Holley Trip Pittman Bill Hightower Gerald H. Allen Del Marsh Tom Whatley Greg J. Reed Shadrack McGill Cam Ward Rusty Glover Paul Sanford Harri Anne Smith
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Public K-12 Education, moratorium on further adoption of common core until 1/1/17, local board of education may opt out and use alternative curriculum, advisory commission created
Description: Under existing law, the State Board of Education has adopted, for implementation in the public K-12 schools of the state, the curriculum provided for Mathematics and English Language Arts pursuant to the educational initiative commonly referred to as the Common Core State Educational Standards.
This bill would authorize a local board of education to opt out of the common core curriculum for one or both of those subject areas and to implement an alternative curriculum for those subject areas in the local school system.
Subjects: Education

Indefinitely Postponed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education