[hollywood_court]

It's good to see Birmingham finally doing something right. It so easy to become distracted by the corruption and the drama surrounding the water board at the moment.

[alphawhisky]

Something something broken clock

[gruez]

Not really. The specific policies seem like plausibly good things, so you can't really dismiss it as "broken clock twice a day".

>Three city programmes stand out.

>The first tackled absenteeism [...]

>Next, the district turned to preventing holiday learning loss [...]

>[...] “Birmingham Promise”, a programme that pays full tuition at many Alabama colleges for graduates of the city’s public schools. [...]