After a long stalemate, a bipartisan team of congressional negotiators has agreed to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The law, currently known as No Child Left Behind, sends roughly $14 billion a year to schools that serve mostly low-income students. Here's what we know about the rough agreement.

The Alabama State Department of Education has released the results of the 2015 ACT Aspire assessments. The scores for Daleville City Schools show a decline in readiness overall, but officials say the individual student scores (not available for public access) show improvement and things will continue to get better.

MONTGOMERY - Leadership on the Alabama Education Association board want members next month to support constitutional changes they said will strengthen the organization.

The Alabama Accountability Act is helping some home-school students attend a non-traditional, non-public school.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) - Huntsville City Schools are paving, or better yet paying the way, for qualified math and science teachers to become highly skilled specialist. At Thursday night's school board meeting the district moved forward with a 7 th-12 th grade math and science specialist talent management plan.

We're brought up to believe our teachers are modern-day saints. Just look at how we portray them in the movies and on TV. From Dead Poets Society's iconic Mr. Keating to resourceful LouAnne Johnson in Dangerous Minds, we reinforce time and again that teaching is a noble calling.

For Wardine Alexander, a passion for public education was instilled early by parents who worked for Birmingham City Schools. The new Birmingham Board of Education president went to Wenonah Elementary and Gaston Middle, graduated from Wenonah High School and earned a bachelor's degree in medical technology from UAB.

This year, the Attorney General's Office will honor private school winners from north, central and south Alabama, in addition to the winners from each of the state's eight public school board districts. "These awards have previously provided the opportunity to identify and recognize excellence in school safety.

Press reports about an investigation of consultants' influence in public education have linked the Huntsville school system to a company that allegedly gave consulting contracts to school leaders whose systems bought its services.

Alabama students ranked at the bottom nationally in math test results released last month by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Fourth-graders and eighth-graders in randomly selected schools take the NAEP tests every two years. Alabama students scored better in reading than in math. Low rankings for Alabama on NAEP tests are not new.

New Hoover schools Superintendent Kathy Murphy took advantage of her first speech to the Hoover Area Chamber of Commerce today as a chance to brag on the district. Murphy, who joined Hoover as superintendent in June, rattled off a list of accomplishments for each Hoover school, as well as the district as a whole.

Leaders of the Alabama State Board of Education say they will ask Alabama lawmakers for a 5% increase for teachers. Thomas Bice, secretary and executive officer of the board opened the discussion during a meeting last week. According to state leaders, the proposal could cost $160 million.

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Government officials in Alabama say that while there's an interest in raising teacher salaries next year, it's too soon to say what a pay raise would look like. Sen. Arthur Orr, who will take over as chairman of the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee next year, tells Al.com that revenue projections for fiscal year 2017 are still unknown.

The chairmen of the education budget committees in the Alabama Legislature say there's interest in raising the pay of educators next year but it's too soon to say by how much. Last week, State Superintendent Tommy Bice suggested a 5 percent increase to the state Board of Education during a discussion about budget priorities.

Gov. Robert Bentley's appointee to the State Board of Education campaigned against public school tax increases and was criticized in the national media for his conservative views.

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Alabama students are adding to their math skills, but haven't turned the page on reading. Buy Photo Brewbaker Middle School held a workshop to help Montgomery Public Schools teachers increase classroom effectiveness and improve student achievement on Wednesday, July 29, 2015.

Gov. Robert Bentley's appointee to the State Board of Education campaigned against public school tax increases and was criticized in the national media for his conservative views.

The race for the District 1 seat on the state board of education - representing all or part of seven counties in southwest Alabama - is crowded. As recently as last week, incumbent Matthew Brown was unopposed, but by Friday's campaign filing deadline, four additional candidates were in the mix.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan listens as President Barack Obama speaks at White House in March. Duncan is set to step down in December after seven years on the job. ​When Secretary of Education Arne Duncan steps down from his perch in December, he'll bring to a close a seven-year tenure during which he oversaw more change in the K-12 education space than anyone else who has held the post.

MONTGOMERY - Nearly 100 students are using tax-credit-funded scholarships to attend private schools in Morgan and Limestone counties, but only one is from a public school considered failing under the Alabama Accountability Act.

Rene Hoover, the mother of a terminally-ill special education student in Limestone County, has been waging a public battle to allow her son to attend public school with a do-not-resuscitate order. But if she and her son lived just over the state line in Tennessee, it wouldn't be an issue, said Dr. Monica Williams-Murphy, medical director for advanced care planning and end-of-life education at Huntsville Hospital.