Nearly half of Alabama’s 140 public school districts will receive funding for fewer teachers than last year, according to documents from the Alabama Department of Education. That could mean higher class sizes depending on how schools handle the loss.
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The chart below shows both the number of teachers funded through the Foundation Program - the purple bar - and the official count of students used each year - the blue line.Perry County in central Alabama will lose the largest proportion of its state-funded teachers of all districts statewide, dropping by 13% from 59 to 51 teachers. In what appears to be a tradeoff, Breakthrough Charter School, which opened in Perry County in 2021, will gain 11 teachers.
Eufaula City is home to a large virtual school, which saw enrollment drop from 4,400 to 3,900 students, costing it 24 teachers. The map of Alabama school districts below shows the percentage change in Foundation Program teacher units from last year to the upcoming school year. Zoom in to see smaller geographical areas.Because Alabama funds teachers as opposed to students, some small schools get fewer teachers than they have grades, and often rely on federal funding to fully staff classrooms.
Lawmakers batted around changing the way Alabama funds schools, but dropped the idea after the session started.hired by the department of education recommended Alabama base funding on students rather than by a count of teachers but no action was taken at that time. All but one of Alabama’s 12 charter schools will get more teachers due to increasing enrollment. Covenant Academy of Mobile, a new charter school scheduled to open in August, will receive 17 state-funded teachers.
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