Timeline: The Alabama Accountability Act

UPDATE: Changes were made to the AAA in June 2015. This post has not been updated.

The timeline below takes you through the birth of the Alabama Accountability Act (AAA) in 2013 through January 5, 2015.

Useful information as we await the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision regarding the AAA. (UPDATE: The Alabama Supreme Court upheld the AAA in March 2015.)

The events on the timeline have to do with the passage of the AAA, the legal wranglings, the release of the “failing” schools lists (the 2015-2016 list was due out on November 1….it’s late) and information about scholarships and tax credits. Many thanks to the hard-working reporters covering these events.

Click on the image to read the story or view the document.

For the basics on the AAA, read this.

Not all of the images are accurately rendered in the timeline, but this is a super-cool (and free!) tool from Knight Labs to help us tell the stories that we need to understand better.