The Dept. of Education functions to educate the population of the State of Alabama. This series contains administrative histories, annual reports, biennial reports, booklets, budget requests, bulletins, by-laws, catalogs, codes, curriculum guides, curriculum materials, directories, guides, handbooks, leaflets, manuals, minutes of meetings, monographs, newsletters, pamphlets, periodicals, plans, proceedings, regulations, rules, special reports, school plans, specifications, statistics, surveys, syllabi, and yearbooks. One monograph is History of Education in Alabama (1975). Some of the prominent periodicals include Alabama Community Education News, Alabama Education, Alabama Education News, Alabama Basic Education Newsletter, Alabama Rehabilitation News, Alabama Vocational Education, Alabama Vocational Journal, Alabama Vocational Rehabilitation News, Alabama News and Views, Alabama School Progress, Careers, School Food Service Newsletter, [State Dept. of Education] SDE Exchange, SDE News, and the [Vocational and Industrial Clubs of America] VICA News. The publications represent the following programs: classroom teaching, administration of schools, adult education, demographics, African-American education, community education, administration of federal funds, child nutrition, educating and rehabilitating the disabled, subject specialization, guidance and counseling, textbooks, courses of study, education resources, and vocational education. There are many subprograms underneath these major programs. Among the subjects discussed are: educational budgets and funding, literacy and illiteracy, salaries of teachers and other employees, school and facility construction and planning, federal programs, curriculum development and the course of study, colleges and universities, continuing education for teachers and other school employees, teacher ceertification, school accreditation, high school athletics, history of education, partents and teachers organizations, improving schools, nutrition and dietetics, Jeanes Foundation, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), Child Nurtition Act of 1966, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), National Defense Education Act (NDEA) or Title III, special education, Alabama Educational Study Commission. Drug awareness and temperance, safety, public health and hygiene, Alabama Day and other holidays, asbestos abatement.
