Hoover City Schools issued the following announcement on March 22.
The Hoover City Schools Board of Education approved a resolution opposing House Bills 452 and 459 and Senate Bills 140 and 302 during a special called Board meeting. Those bills would reallocate local tax revenues from Alabama taxpayers intended to support traditional public school operations in the City of Hoover and throughout Alabama. If the bills are approved, local public school funds would be allocated to a public charter school should a student transfer from a Hoover City School to a charter school.
Hoover Board of Education member Craig Kelley said, "These bills would take all or part of the local funding from local school districts. The position we have in Hoover and I think other districts also do, is that people voted for all of the mills that we have that are for traditional public education. HCS certainly supports public charter schools, private schools, homeschool learning, or whatever best educates the child that the parent chooses. This resolution is in no way intended to demean any education that gets a child where they need to be to advance themselves in life. This is simply over the vote of the people that voted for traditional public schools to receive the funds as per their vote."
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