Education liaison files, 1993-1995.

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Education liaison files, 1993-1995.

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These records function to document the efforts of the Governor's Office regarding education. The educational liasion was Debbie Smith. Types of records to be found include clippings, correspondence, meeting minutes, newsletters, pamphlets, petitions, press releases, reports, speeches, statistics, and transcripts. Among the topics discussed are educational reform, achievement testing, school violence, higher education, special education, vocational education, and the equity funding case. In the State Department of Education (SDE) folder are minutes of State Board of Education meetings, as well as correspondence and publications of the SDE. Among the correspondents are Paul R. Hubbert and others of the Alabama Educational Association, the US Department of Education, the Educational Commission of the States, the Alabama Compact for Leadership and Citizenship Education, and the Alabama Commission on Higher Education. In SG20332 there are transcripts of hearings on higher education held by the Governor's Education Task Force on July 16, August 8 and 17, September 10 and 23, 1993, and January 8, 1994, at the Alabama State House, and on October 1, 1993, at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. There are many other reports and correspondence in that box regarding higher education. In SG20333 are records regarding the Alabama Commission on School Performance and Accountability (ASCPA). Included are membership lists, reports, and detailed meeting agenda and minutes.

8 cubic ft. (8 records center cartons).

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Smith, Debbie M.

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Educational Commission of the States.

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United States. Department of Education

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Alabama. Governor (1993-1995 : Folsom).

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Hubbert, Paul R.

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Alabama. Commission on School Performance and Accountability.

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Alabama Commission on Higher Education

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Source: Alabama Government Manual. Seventh edition. Tuscaloosa: Alabama Law Institute, 1989. The Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) was created in 1969 to promote an educational system that would provide the highest possible quality of collegiate and university education to all people in the state willing and able to profit by it. The Commission is responsible for long-range statewide planning for all postsecondary education in Alabama; for approva...

Alabama. Educational Association.

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Folsom, Marsha.

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Teague, Wayne

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Teague served on the Auburn University Board of Trustees during the early 1980s. From the description of Oral History Interview, 1999. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 42845290 ...

Alabama. Compact for Leadership and Citizenship Education.

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Folsom, James Elisha

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James E. Folsom was born 1908 Oct. 9 to Joshua Marion and Eulala Cornelia Dunnavant Folsom in Farmer's Academy, Coffee County, Ala. When he was two the Folsom family moved to Elba. James E. was the sixth of seven children. Folsom attended public schools and attended both the University of Ala. and Howard College for short stints in the years 1927-1929. During the Depression Folsom worked in the Civil Works Administration, heading up the Marshall Co. office until 1934. He...