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A conference to discuss the changing educational landscape in Alabama and explore what’s possible for the future is on the books. More than 400 education advocates, policymakers, school leaders, teachers, students, parents and community stakeholders from across the state are headed to Birmingham for the Alabama Opportunity Summit.

More than two dozen organizations in Alabama are joining together to launch a new coalition aimed at modernizing Alabama’s school funding policies. The Every Child Alabama Coalition includes individuals and organizations representing several communities and viewpoints.

Children of color are behind in most categories at state and national levels, according to the Race for Results report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Improvements have been made over the past decade, but no racial or ethnic group came close to the maximum index.

Ask older members if they ever watched the TV show Barney Miller? The comedy cop show won an Emmy award back in 1982. That’s the same year Alabama Public Radio first went on the air. We’re observing forty years of serving our listeners by re-airing the best of our stories. That includes this one from 2014. APR collaborated with the University of Alabama’s Center for Public Television for two years on a series called “Alabama, INC." We spotlighted local business leaders including the head of Birmingham’s McWane Science Center. Here’s that story from the APR archives.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Senate on Thursday approved a 4 percent pay increase for teachers and other public school employees as part of a…