What is a specialty crop? Are there any in our area? What is the purpose of growing a specialty crop? Open this blog to take the survery before heading home for the summer. Click here to take the survey before heading home for the summer.  

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The Mobile County Public School System is making national news by working to support and improve the health of our children and our community. At all 89 of Mobile County’s public schools, healthy items are featured on the cafeteria menus daily and physical education and activity are being emphasized. It’s part of the Healthier U.S. Schools Challenge (HUSSC). The Mobile County Public School System is the only school system in Alabama where all schools have received USDA recognition,...

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The Mobile County Public School System is pleased to recognize its 2012-13 Teachers of the Year. Teachers, according to schools Superintendent Martha Peek, are the heartbeat of the school system. "They are the ones who make the greatest and lasting impressions on our students," Peek said. "They touch their hearts and minds and it lasts a lifetime." While teaching is one of the toughest professions, Peek said, it is one of the most important. "Our teachers are to be admired," she said. "The...

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The Alabama Senate this afternoon voted to allocate $15 million to help with repairs at Murphy High School, which was badly damaged in a Christmas Day tornado. Mobile County school system leaders are thankful to Mobile’s legislative delegation for ushering the bill to passage today, the last day of the legislative session. The Alabama House had already approved the bill, which gives a total of $30 million to various tornado-struck schools. “Now we’ll really be able to repair...

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The Mobile County Public School System is pleased to recognize its 2012-13 Teachers of the Year. Teachers, according to schools Superintendent Martha Peek, are the heartbeat of the school system. "They are the ones who make the greatest and lasting impressions on our students," Peek said. "They touch their hearts and minds and it lasts a lifetime." While teaching is one of the toughest professions, Peek said, it is one of the most important. "Our teachers are to be admired," she said. "The...

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About 200 people attended a ceremony Sunday to mark the dedication of major renovations at B.C. Rain High School and the ground breaking of a new Aerospace Training Facility that should open this fall. The crowd - which sat under a brand new cupola now serving as the entryway to the Dauphin Island Parkway school -  included school officials as well as city and county leaders, alumni, representatives from the state, and members of the business community. B.C. Rain students, future...

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The Mobile County Board of School Commissioners has the following meetings scheduled: ·       Wednesday May 22nd - 8:30-11:30 - Project Management Presentations ·       Wednesday May 22nd - 1:00 Board Work Session ·       Thursday, May 23rd  -   12:00 Special Called Board meeting – Human Resources Items ·       Wednesday, May...

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MOBILE, Ala. – The Mobile County Public School System is proudly hosting a ceremony this Sunday afternoon to dedicate the newly renovated B.C. Rain High School and break ground on a soon-to-be constructed Aerospace Training Facility. The ceremony will be held in front of the school, 3125 Dauphin Island Parkway, at 2 p.m. These projects are already having a big impact on the community, said Mobile County school board member Levon Manzie, whose district includes B.C. Rain. “Five years...

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Efforts in Mobile County public schools to have more students taking Advanced Placement classes and tests are working, as there was a 30 percent leap in the number of AP tests administered this year. This spring, Mobile County high school students are taking 726 more AP tests compared to last year, according to figures from The College Board, which administers the tests. That’s 3,118 tests taken by 2,191 students at 12 high schools. Tests range from English and history to psychology, Chinese...

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