{ "program": "National Deaf Education Data Index", "state": "Alabama", "state_number": "01", "postal_code": "AL", "version": "2.0", "released": "2026-10-08", "baseline": "SY 2025 (School Year 2024 - 2025)", "as_of": "2026-10-08", "url": "https://www.ndedi.org/states/al/v2.0/", "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.23254313", "publisher": "Novara Consulting Group LLC", "summary_terms": "Free summary layer: use with attribution (STD-004 v1.0 section 3).", "formulations": { "none_found": "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.", "idea_obligations": "Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program." }, "plain_language_summary": "Alabama educates most of its deaf and hard of hearing students in their local school systems and runs one state institution for the rest. The Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind in Talladega, founded in 1858, operates the Alabama School for the Deaf, the Helen Keller School for students with sensory loss and additional disabilities, an outreach service that sends specialists into public schools across the state, ten regional centers that provide early intervention for infants and services for adults, and the state deafblind project. Alabama residents pay nothing for tuition, room, board or the buses home. The state counted 842 students with hearing impairment in October 2024, 150 of them in the Institute's own schools, and 874 a year later. The state budget gives the Institute about 85.6 million dollars for the year beginning October 2026, pays a separate 8.5 million dollar line for licensed interpreters and teachers of the deaf in the local systems, and names a private spoken language school and a school called Southwest School of Deaf and Blind in lines of their own. Of the 153 local systems, five publish a deaf program or a deaf education post of their own: Mobile County operates the Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind, Shelby County names a Deaf and Hard of Hearing department, and DeKalb, Jackson and Calhoun counties name a teacher of the hearing impaired. Fifty-six systems mention hearing impairment, mostly as a category on an eligibility list, and eighty-eight publish nothing about it on the pages read. Four could not be read on either day. The school for the deaf teaches in American Sign Language from preschool and also runs a listening and spoken language program, and no local system names the Institute's outreach service on its own site.", "frame": { "statement": "The frame is every local education agency of the SY 2025 cycle (school year 2024 - 2025): the 139 city and county systems of the State Department of Education's roster (67 county, 72 city; the SBOE listing of 26 September 2025 and the Directory of Alabama Public Schools 2025) and the 14 public charter agencies that ALSDE codes as their own systems in the October 2024 and October 2025 child counts and the Common Core of Data 2024-25 lists as their own charter districts: 153 rows. Ivy Classical Academy (809) enters at v2.0 (in both counts and the CCD; omitted at v1.0). Independence Preparatory Academy (817) and I Dream Big Charter Schools (818) opened in 2025-26 (CCD 2024-25 status Future; October 2025 count only), were read once and not counted; they enter the frame at the 2025-26 cycle. Barnabas School of Leadership (814) is closed in the CCD with no schools and in neither count and was not read. The five CCD agency rows (Alabama School of Fine Arts 207, Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering 209, Alabama Youth Services 210, Alabama School of Mathematics and Science 610, J. F. Ingram State Technical College 640) are outside the coverage table; 207, 209 and 210 were read once for the record with no deaf or hard of hearing content. The Institute (system 600 in the child count) is the operator, read as seeded sets, not an LEA row. Every row was read on its own website in the rendered browser on 6 October 2026, the failed addresses tried again and searched once on 8 October (D-039, D-040), the thinner reads re-read as seeded sets, the CCD website field compared with the host read (D-043), and every keyword hit reviewed by the compiler against its capture.", "frame_count": 153, "exhaustive": true, "sample_rule": "", "class_exclusions": [ { "class": "CCD 2024-25 state agency rows", "count": 5, "basis": "Alabama School of Fine Arts, Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering, Alabama Youth Services, Alabama School of Mathematics and Science and J. F. Ingram State Technical College: state-operated agencies, not systems of the state's roster; three read once for the record (no content), two list no website and were not read." }, { "class": "Charter agencies opened in 2025-26 or closed", "count": 3, "basis": "Independence Preparatory Academy and I Dream Big Charter Schools (October 2025 count only; read once, not counted); Barnabas School of Leadership (CCD Closed, no schools, in neither count; not read)." }, { "class": "Schools within systems", "count": 0, "basis": "Schools are not units; the three Montgomery conversion charters are schools of system 051 and the Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind is a school of system 049." } ], "deaf_blind_boundary": "Deaf-blindness is carried where the instruments name it: the ALSDE October 2024 count prints 19 (15 in October 2025), the federal 618 file the same 19 (all school age: 5 inside regular class 80 percent or more, 3 at 40 to 79 percent, 7 under 40 percent, 1 separate school, 2 residential facility, 1 homebound), and the National Deafblind Child Count 281 on 1 December 2024 (291 served) on its own definition, which includes children with additional disabilities. The three are recorded, not reconciled. Admin. Code 290-8-9 defines the category; the state deafblind project is the Alabama Initiatives for DeafBlind Children and Youth at the Institute (AL-007), and the Helen Keller School serves the pupils with sensory loss and additional disabilities. The per-system deaf-blindness cells are carried on every row (16 across the local systems, 3 at the Institute).", "readable_subset": 149, "weak_evidence_count": 4 }, "normalizations_in_force": [ "MENTION requires a hearing term on a held capture (FRM-004): an eligibility recital naming Hearing Impairment or Deaf-Blindness (the most common form), a child find or screening line with a hearing term, a related service or event with a hearing term, an ASL course or club, or a provider named as a placement (Tuscaloosa City, AIDB KinderPrep). A special education mechanism with no hearing term codes NONE FOUND with the mechanism recorded; seven v1.0 MENTION rows move on this rule.", "The seven rows moved to NONE FOUND: Coffee, Dallas, Pike and Talladega counties, Auburn, Opelika and Scottsboro cities (the v1.0 eligibility list was not on the pages read, or the term was child find developmental-area text). Standing false positives set aside: Section 504 lists (Oneonta, Opelika), ADA effective-communication policy text (Troy City), navigation and resource text, Braille and audiotape lists (Washington County, i3 Academy).", "PROGRAM requires the unit's own deaf or hard of hearing school, department or staff on its own site: Mobile County (the Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind, an own separate school) without the weak flag; Shelby County (a department named in a list, page unread), DeKalb (a Hearing Impaired teacher on the roster), Jackson (a Vision/Hearing Impaired Specialist) and Calhoun (the teacher of the Hearing Impaired in the plan PDF) with the weak flag (D-037, a list item or one post).", "NOT VERIFIABLE under D-040 after two attempts on two calendar days (6 and 8 October 2026) and one D-039 search: Bullock County and Wilcox County (deep review, access: the hosts failed on both days and no current host was found), MAEF Public Charter Schools and Freedom Prep (deep review, no source: no website in any instrument and none found). Each row carries both dates, the reason and the mark; the four are in the frame and out of the readable subset.", "D-043: the directory field is the CCD 2024-25 website field. Three print a street address (Bullock, Alexander City, MAEF): mistyped. Three empty (Elba City, Talladega County, Freedom Prep): no website in directory. Nine did not answer (Chilton, Colbert, Trussville: the v1.0 host; Crenshaw, Jackson, Fairfield, Pike Road, Vestavia Hills: the host one search found; Bullock, Wilcox: not readable). Five redirect to a new domain (LIFE Academy, Floretta P. Carson, Geneva City, Coosa, Ivy Classical).", "A unit read on a host one D-039 search found (five rows) is coded from that host with the discovery method stated; a unit read on the v1.0 host after the listed address failed carries \"carried from the prior version's audit list\". Ivy Classical Academy's host did not resolve on 8 October; its 6 October read stands.", "The identified counts by system are the ALSDE October 2024 cells (hearing impairment and deaf-blindness), with October 2025 beside them in the note; a blank cell is read as zero because the printed cells and the Institute's row sum to the state total (842). The Institute's 150 are not on any LEA row (D-038: no count entered twice).", "The regional unit is the AIDB regional center whose published county list holds the unit's county; a city system's county is read from the ALSDE directory's regional inservice map (page 23 to 25), a charter agency's from its CCD city. The Birmingham center's five counties are the v1.0 record, marked as such; Hoover and Tallassee are placed under two counties by the map and carried under the first with the note.", "NONE FOUND is a statement about publication on the unit's own site, not about service delivery: every identified pupil is counted in a system, the Institute's outreach program serves pupils in local systems that publish nothing about it, and 88 units with 400 or more identified pupils between them publish no deaf or hard of hearing content on the pages read." ], "method_limitations": "Six limitations bound this run. First, the closure read is a keyword screen over the pages the probe reached (1,476 pages on 6 October across 148 units; the seeded and D-039 reads on 8 October), so a program published deep in a site or inside a PDF the probe did not open can be missed; the Mobile County and Shelby County program pages themselves were not reached and both rows rest on the district page that names them. Second, four units could not be read on either day and are NOT VERIFIABLE with the deep-review mark; their October 2024 cells are blank, so no identified pupil is outside the readable subset by the count, though the four systems count 400 identified pupils of all exceptionalities between them. Third, the identified count by system is read with a blank cell as zero because the printed cells sum to the state total; the Department does not print zeros, and a suppressed small cell would be indistinguishable from an empty one. Fourth, the fiscal layer reads the Education Trust Fund act, the Executive Budget Office reports and the Examiners' audits; how the 8,500,000 dollar interpreters and teachers line is allocated to systems, the state's total Part B award, the identity of the Southwest School of Deaf and Blind line and the Woolley Institute's program are not on the record. Fifth, the Institute's enrollment by school is not published; its system row (150, 144) is the figure carried, and the v1.0 pages of the Woolley Institute, the Association of the Deaf and Hands & Voices were not re-read. Sixth, the city-to-county placement comes from the Department's directory map, which places two systems under two counties; the regional unit of those rows is stated with the note. No Internet Archive lookup ran in this version.", "tallies_by_code": [ { "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 5, "percent_of_frame": 3.3, "percent_of_readable": 3.4 }, { "code": "MENTION", "count": 56, "percent_of_frame": 36.6, "percent_of_readable": 37.6 }, { "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 88, "percent_of_frame": 57.5, "percent_of_readable": 59.1 }, { "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 4, "percent_of_frame": 2.6, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "NOT AUDITED", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": null }, { "code": "OUT OF FRAME", "count": 0, "percent_of_frame": 0, "percent_of_readable": 0 } ], "tallies_by_type": [ { "agency_type": "City school system", "code": "MENTION", "count": 28 }, { "agency_type": "City school system", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 44 }, { "agency_type": "County school system", "code": "PROGRAM", "count": 5 }, { "agency_type": "County school system", "code": "MENTION", "count": 26 }, { "agency_type": "County school system", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 34 }, { "agency_type": "County school system", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "Public charter school (own LEA)", "code": "MENTION", "count": 2 }, { "agency_type": "Public charter school (own LEA)", "code": "NONE FOUND", "count": 10 }, { "agency_type": "Public charter school (own LEA)", "code": "NOT VERIFIABLE", "count": 2 } ], "operator_silence": [ { "provider": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB, any program)", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 1, "affirmative_list": [ "200 Tuscaloosa City" ] }, { "provider": "Alabama School for the Deaf", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "AIDB Outreach Instructional Services", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 0, "affirmative_list": [] }, { "provider": "AIDB regional centers and KinderPrep", "provider_names_count": 0, "agencies_naming_provider_count": 1, "affirmative_list": [ "200 Tuscaloosa City" ] } ], "publication_against_identified_population": { "supported": true, "identified_population": { "value": 842, "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 3, "note": "Pupils with a primary exceptionality of hearing impairment in the ALSDE October 2024 child count (ages 3 to 21), 842 across 108 systems with a printed cell and the Institute (system 600, 150); the federal 618 file prints the same 842 (795 school age, 47 early childhood). Deaf-blindness 19. October 2025: 874 and 15." }, "published_programme_capacity": { "value": 100, "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 1, "note": "Sum of the October 2024 hearing-impairment cells of the five units coded PROGRAM: Mobile County 56 (the Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind), Shelby County 27 (the Deaf and Hard of Hearing department), DeKalb County 11, Calhoun County 4, Jackson County 2. The Institute's 150 are outside the LEA frame (the operator is its own system) and are not in the numerator." }, "note": "The FRM-002 measure is supported for Alabama: the state publishes the identified count by system. 100 of 842 identified pupils (11.9 percent) are in a local system that publishes a deaf or hard of hearing program or staff of its own; 150 (17.8 percent) are counted in the Institute's own system; the remaining 592 are in systems that publish a mention (56 units, 279 pupils by their cells) or nothing (88 units, 313 pupils) or could not be read (4 units, whose cells are blank). The measure counts publication, not service: every one of the 842 is served somewhere, and the Institute's outreach program reaches local systems that publish nothing about it." }, "indicators": [ { "indicator": "Identified population, hearing impairment and deaf-blindness (state child count, October 2024 and October 2025)", "figure": { "value": "hearing impairment 842 (October 2024), 874 (October 2025); deaf-blindness 19 and 15; all exceptionalities 108,144 and 111,365", "year": "2024-25 and 2025-26", "source_n": 3, "note": "The state publishes the count by system (sources 1 and 2), by age and exceptionality (3, 4) and by system, age and exceptionality (5). The federal 618 file prints the same 842 and 19 for fall 2024 (source 7)." } }, { "indicator": "Identified population at the Institute (system 600)", "figure": { "value": "hearing impairment 150 (October 2024), 144 (October 2025); deaf-blindness 3 and 3; all exceptionalities 326 and 309", "year": "2024-25 and 2025-26", "source_n": 1, "note": "17.8 percent of the state's identified hearing-impairment population is counted in the Institute's own system in October 2024 (16.5 percent in October 2025)." } }, { "indicator": "Educational environments, hearing impairment, school age (federal 618)", "figure": { "value": "of 795 pupils aged 5 to 21: 546 inside regular class 80 percent or more of the day, 69 at 40 to 79 percent, 32 under 40 percent, 49 in a separate school, 95 in a residential facility, 3 homebound or hospital, 0 correctional, 1 parentally placed in a private school; early childhood 47: 15 in a regular early childhood program at least 10 hours, 3 under 10 hours, 1 separate class, 14 separate school, 0 residential, 1 home, 4 service provider location, 9 other location", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 7, "note": "144 of 795 (18.1 percent) in a separate school or residential facility, the two settings in which the Institute's pupils are counted." } }, { "indicator": "Educational environments, deaf-blindness, school age (federal 618)", "figure": { "value": "of 19: 5 inside regular class 80 percent or more, 3 at 40 to 79 percent, 7 under 40 percent, 1 separate school, 2 residential facility, 1 homebound; early childhood 0", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 7, "note": "" } }, { "indicator": "Hearing impairment as a share of the identified population (SPP/APR)", "figure": { "value": "0.78 percent (FFY 2023), 0.77 percent (FFY 2024); 144 of 842 in the Indicator 3 assessed group (17.10 percent)", "year": "FFY 2024", "source_n": 6, "note": "Deaf-blindness 0.02 percent, suppressed in the assessed group." } }, { "indicator": "National Deafblind Child Count, Alabama", "figure": { "value": "291 served during 2024, 281 on 1 December 2024; 252 and 205 in 2023", "year": "2024", "source_n": 34, "note": "Counts children with additional disabilities; the category counts (19, 15) do not." } }, { "indicator": "Newborn hearing screening and EHDI", "figure": { "value": "Universal newborn hearing screening mandated on the Newborn Screening Panel since 2008; EHDI (Alabama's Listening!) since February 2001; screening at 24 to 48 hours; no 2022 CDC survey row for Alabama", "year": "2022 to 2026", "source_n": 16, "note": "Source 33 for the CDC survey (Alabama absent from the 43 jurisdictions reporting)." } }, { "indicator": "Placement criteria and IEP communication considerations", "figure": { "value": "Eligibility under Admin. Code 290-8-9-.03(5): audiological data showing a hearing impairment, satisfactory vision screening, and evidence that educational performance is adversely affected; no published criterion for choosing between a local placement and the Institute beyond Code 21-1-10 (the parent of a deaf child of mandatory age \"unable to make satisfactory progress in the public schools\" enrolls the child at the Institute) and the Institute's admissions page (\"All students must meet AIDB admission criteria\", the criteria not published on the page)", "year": "2026", "source_n": 17, "note": "No deaf child's bill of rights or IEP communication-consideration rule beyond the federal special factors was on the pages read; not searched beyond the Code chapters and the rules in the record. The outreach program attends eligibility and IEP meetings on request (AL-006)." } }, { "indicator": "Language and literacy development law (LEAD-K-type)", "figure": { "value": "none on the record: the bill search covered instruments naming the Institute (650 records; 63 in 2021 to 2026) and found no language-development or LEAD-K act; a search on the subject is owed at the next cycle", "year": "2021 to 2026", "source_n": 35, "note": "Recorded as not found in the record, not as absent from the Code." } }, { "indicator": "Units publishing a deaf or hard of hearing program, mention, nothing, or unreadable (FRM-004)", "figure": { "value": "PROGRAM 5 (4 weak), MENTION 56, NONE FOUND 88, NOT VERIFIABLE 4; readable subset 149 of 153", "year": "2026-10-06 and 2026-10-08", "source_n": 38, "note": "v1.0: PROGRAM 2, MENTION 43, NONE FOUND 54, NOT VERIFIABLE 52, NOT AUDITED 1 (152 rows). The rendered read resolved 49 of the 52 v1.0 NOT VERIFIABLE rows (three held; MAEF moved from NONE FOUND to NOT VERIFIABLE)." } }, { "indicator": "Publication against the identified population (FRM-002)", "figure": { "value": "100 of 842 (11.9 percent) in units coded PROGRAM; 150 (17.8 percent) at the Institute; 279 in units coded MENTION; 313 in units coded NONE FOUND; 0 in the four NOT VERIFIABLE units (blank cells)", "year": "2024-25", "source_n": 1, "note": "Computed from the October 2024 cells; see PUBLICATION_MEASURE." } }, { "indicator": "Operator silence (both directions)", "figure": { "value": "The Institute names no local system as a sending district on the pages read (0 of 153); one local system (Tuscaloosa City) names an Institute program (KinderPrep) as a placement setting; none names the School for the Deaf or the outreach program", "year": "2026-10-06", "source_n": 27, "note": "The affirmative list is recomputed from the coverage rows." } }, { "indicator": "Interpreters and audiologists in the schools (federal personnel file)", "figure": { "value": "interpreters 92 (92 fully certified, 0 not); audiologists 19 (19, 0); speech-language pathologists 1,005; special education teachers 5,778 (5,701 fully certified); paraprofessionals 6,145", "year": "2023-24", "source_n": 8, "note": "No count of teachers of the deaf by category is published." } }, { "indicator": "Education Trust Fund appropriation to the Institute", "figure": { "value": "85,592,459 dollars FY2027 enacted (Adult Programs 18,892,952; the Birmingham Regional Office 10,000 earmarked); 81,835,358 FY2026 budgeted; 79,224,627 FY2025", "year": "FY2025 to FY2027", "source_n": 20, "note": "The FY2026 summary sheet prints 82,335,358; the Examiners print FY2025 ETF support received at 80,728,461 (FY2024 77,719,090; FY2023 77,930,008)." } }, { "indicator": "Education Trust Fund lines for deaf education administered by the Department", "figure": { "value": "Special Education Licensed Interpreters Deaf/Hard Hearing Teachers 8,500,000 (FY2027 enacted; 6,892,985 actual FY2025, 20,699,904 FY2026); Woolley Institute for Spoken Language Education 1,000,000 (1,660,000 FY2025, 1,700,000 FY2026); Southwest School of Deaf and Blind 198,865 (each year)", "year": "FY2025 to FY2027", "source_n": 20, "note": "Source 21 for the actual and estimated figures by function." } }, { "indicator": "Capital: the Institute", "figure": { "value": "1,850,000 dollars one-time, deferred maintenance and school safety (FY2026 Education Trust Fund capital list); 28,519,992 dollars, Alabama School of Deaf and Blind, North Alabama Campus (Public School and College Authority premium projects)", "year": "FY2026 and the PSCA bond premium", "source_n": 21, "note": "The PSCA project list prints the Institute as \"Alabama School of Deaf and Blind\"." } }, { "indicator": "The Institute's service counts (Examiners)", "figure": { "value": "FY2025: 30,588 individuals on campus programs, 16,191 through residential and outreach programs, 5,348 seniors, 9,049 through the regional centers; FY2024: 31,151, 15,238, 7,212, 8,701; FY2023: 32,374, 15,436, 9,905, 7,033", "year": "FY2023 to FY2025", "source_n": 24, "note": "Source 25 for FY2024 and FY2023. The institute's own page says \"more than 31,000\" a year." } }, { "indicator": "Audit findings on the Institute (FY2025)", "figure": { "value": "four findings: 2025-001 unclaimed property (third year), 2025-002, 2025-003, 2025-004 procurement on the Special Education Cluster (84.027) with questioned costs 264,966.68; unmodified opinion on the financial statements, qualified opinion on the Special Education Cluster; IDEA Part B expenditures 1,178,383.28 of 1,978,716.62 federal", "year": "FY2025", "source_n": 24, "note": "Report 26-359, filed June 2026." } }, { "indicator": "Market layer: CHOOSE Act education savings accounts", "figure": { "value": "7,000 dollars per participating student in a participating school, 2,000 for home education; the first 500 awards to special-needs students; Education Savings Account Program 86,250,000 dollars FY2027 (101,250,000 FY2026); \"more than 23,000\" students supported (the Governor's message)", "year": "2025-26 and 2026-27", "source_n": 32, "note": "Not deaf-specific; a special-needs participant keeps the resident district's special education services (section 4(h))." } } ], "identified_population_series": [ { "year": "2024-25 (October 2024)", "identified_hi": 842, "identified_db": 19, "source_n": 3 }, { "year": "2025-26 (October 2025)", "identified_hi": 874, "identified_db": 15, "source_n": 4 } ], "fiscal": [ { "channel": "Named appropriation / budget line", "status": "populated", "amount": 85592459, "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "Education Trust Fund appropriation act, FY2027 (HB238, Act 2026-380): Deaf and Blind, Alabama Institute for (the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, AIDB), with its Adult Programs sub-line and the Birmingham Regional Office earmark", "citation": "ETF Comparison Sheet FY2027 (enacted), lines 628 to 630: 85,592,459 (FY2026 budgeted 81,835,358; Governor 85,155,059); Adult Programs 18,892,952 (18,053,095); Birmingham Regional Office 10,000; Executive Budget Office Budget Report FY2027: Children and Youth Program ETF O&M 52,579,603 recommended, 50,938,706 FY2026, 47,798,768 actual FY2025; Adult Programs 18,970,259, 18,043,095, 17,183,900", "note": "The Institute's whole appropriation, deaf and blind together; no deaf-only line exists. The FY2025 act appropriated 79,224,627 (summary sheet); the Examiners print 80,728,461 received in FY2025 (59.1 percent of revenue) and 77,719,090 in FY2024. The v1.0 file carried the FY2025 and FY2026 figures; the FY2027 act is new to this version.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "amount": 79224627, "basis": "ETF appropriation summary FY2025 (source 23)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2026", "amount": 81835358, "basis": "FY2026 budgeted, FY2027 comparison sheet line 628 (the FY2026 summary sheet prints 82,335,358)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "amount": 85592459, "basis": "Act 2026-380, line 628" } ] }, { "channel": "General formula funding", "status": "populated", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "The Foundation Program (Code of Ala. 16-13-230 and following, the v1.0 record) funds the local systems by earned units; the Institute is outside it and \"does not receive revenue from local taxes\" (FAQ)", "citation": "ETF Comparison Sheet FY2027, the Foundation Program line (not transcribed here); AIDB FAQ (\"Approximately ninety percent of funding for AIDB's schools and services' budget is provided through an appropriation from the Alabama Legislature\")", "note": "A deaf pupil in a local system is funded through the system's Foundation Program units and the special education add-on; a pupil at the Institute is funded by the Institute's appropriation. No per-pupil deaf weight exists in the formula as read." }, { "channel": "Special education funding mechanism", "status": "populated", "amount": 8500000, "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "Education Trust Fund line, Alabama State Department of Education: Special Education Licensed Interpreters Deaf/Hard Hearing Teachers", "citation": "ETF Comparison Sheet FY2027 line 185: 8,500,000 in FY2026 budgeted and FY2027 enacted; Budget Report FY2027, ALSDE function \"Special Education Licensed Interpreters Deaf/HOH Teachers\": 6,892,985 actual FY2025, 20,699,904 estimated FY2026, 8,500,000 requested FY2027", "note": "The one deaf-specific line in the state budget for the local systems: a function the Department administers for licensed interpreters and teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing. How it is allocated to systems is not on the pages read (a records-request item). The FY2026 estimate of 20,699,904 against 8,500,000 budgeted is the Budget Report's own figure, recorded as printed.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "amount": 6892985, "basis": "actual, Budget Report FY2027" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2026", "amount": 20699904, "basis": "estimated, Budget Report FY2027 (8,500,000 budgeted on the comparison sheet)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "amount": 8500000, "basis": "Act 2026-380, line 185" } ] }, { "channel": "High-cost / catastrophic aid", "status": "not published", "amount": null, "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "No catastrophic or extraordinary-cost line for sensory disabilities was found in the Education Trust Fund act as read", "citation": "ETF Comparison Sheet FY2027 (the Special Education Behavior Analysts line 253, 13,500,000, is the nearest special education line and is not deaf-specific)", "note": "The v1.0 file found none either." }, { "channel": "Federal flow-through", "status": "populated", "amount": 1178383.28, "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "IDEA Part B (Special Education Cluster, 84.027) passed through the Alabama State Department of Education to the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the Department's Part B grant itself is not transcribed in this run", "citation": "Examiners 26-359, Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards: Special Education, Grants to States 1,178,383.28; total federal 1,978,716.62; finding 2025-004 (pass-through A250254, questioned costs 264,966.68)", "note": "The Institute's Part B expenditure is the figure on the record; the state's total Part B award was not read in this run (a records-request or next-cycle item). The Part C grant goes to the Department of Rehabilitation Services (AL-015), amount not read." }, { "channel": "Interagency, tuition, and residential mechanics", "status": "populated", "amount": 0, "fiscal_year": "2026-27", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "No tuition and no room and board for Alabama residents at the Institute; the full cost charged to nonresidents under Code of Ala. 21-1-14; no local-system tuition to the Institute on the pages read", "citation": "AIDB Admissions page (\"Students living in Alabama do not pay tuition or room/board fees\"; \"The bus trips home are free; just like tuition, room and board\"); Code of Ala. 21-1-14", "note": "The sending system is not billed on any instrument read; the Institute is funded by its own appropriation and \"does not receive revenue from local taxes\". Other Sources revenue of the Children and Youth Program was 14,568,701 dollars in FY2025 (Budget Report), source not itemized." }, { "channel": "The market layer", "status": "populated", "amount": 86250000, "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "The CHOOSE Act education savings accounts (Act 2024-21; 7,000 dollars per participating student in a participating school; the first 500 awards to special-needs students) and the Alabama Accountability Act scholarships through Scholarship Granting Organizations", "citation": "ETF Comparison Sheet FY2027 line 479, Department of Revenue, Education Savings Account Program: 86,250,000 enacted (101,250,000 FY2026 budgeted, Governor and House); Act 2024-21 sections 2(12), 3, 4(h); the Department of Revenue's CHOOSE Act and Accountability Act pages", "note": "Neither instrument is deaf-specific; a special-needs participant \"remains eligible to receive special education or similar services from the resident school district\". No deaf education provider is named among the participating schools on the pages read.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2026", "amount": 101250000, "basis": "budgeted, line 479" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "amount": 86250000, "basis": "Act 2026-380, line 479" } ] }, { "channel": "Statutory channel to the listening and spoken language sector", "status": "populated", "amount": 1000000, "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "enacted_or_appropriated": "enacted", "instrument": "Education Trust Fund line, Alabama State Department of Education: Woolley Institute for Spoken Language Education", "citation": "ETF Comparison Sheet FY2027 line 190: 1,000,000 in FY2026 budgeted and FY2027 enacted; Budget Report FY2027 function: 1,660,000 actual FY2025, 1,700,000 estimated FY2026, 1,000,000 FY2027", "note": "A private listening and spoken language school funded by name in the state budget; its site was not read. Beside it the Institute's own Listening and Spoken Language Program is funded inside the Institute's appropriation.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2025", "amount": 1660000, "basis": "actual, Budget Report FY2027" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2026", "amount": 1700000, "basis": "estimated, Budget Report FY2027 (1,000,000 budgeted)" }, { "fiscal_year": "FY2027", "amount": 1000000, "basis": "Act 2026-380, line 190" } ] }, { "channel": "Capital", "status": "populated", "amount": 28519992, "fiscal_year": "PSCA premium projects (FY2026 list)", "enacted_or_appropriated": "appropriated", "instrument": "Public School and College Authority bond premium projects (Alabama School of Deaf and Blind, North Alabama Campus) and the FY2026 Education Trust Fund capital list (Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, AIDB, one-time deferred maintenance and school safety)", "citation": "Budget Report FY2027, Long-Range Financial Plans: \"Alabama School of Deaf and Blind $28,519,992 North Alabama Campus\"; FY2026 ETF capital projects: \"Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind $1,850,000 for one-time expenses for deferred maintenance and school safety\"", "note": "The North Alabama Campus is the Institute's Decatur site (the v1.0 record); the Index does not describe what the project builds beyond the line.", "series": [ { "fiscal_year": "FY2026", "amount": 1850000, "basis": "ETF capital list, Budget Report FY2027" }, { "fiscal_year": "PSCA premium projects", "amount": 28519992, "basis": "Budget Report FY2027, B-40" } ] }, { "channel": "Oversight trail (FRM-003 section 4)", "status": "populated", "amount": 264966.68, "fiscal_year": "FY2022 to FY2025", "enacted_or_appropriated": "not stated", "instrument": "The Examiners of Public Accounts' annual audits of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (23-271, 24-249, 25-405, 26-359)", "citation": "Report 26-359: findings 2025-001 (unclaimed property, Code 35-12-76, the third year), 2025-002, 2025-003, 2025-004 (federal procurement standards, Special Education Cluster, questioned costs 264,966.68); unmodified financial opinion, qualified compliance opinion on 84.027", "note": "Sources 24 and 25; the ALSDE management decision on the questioned costs is not on the record (a records-request item). The Southwest School of Deaf and Blind line (198,865 dollars) is an unresolved identity (AL-022)." } ], "workforce": [ { "item": "Educational interpreter qualification required in K-12", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "The general licensure law applies in schools: anyone interpreting for remuneration holds a license on a nationally recognized certification (RID, NAD, BEI or EIPA under 488-X-1) or a permit; the Limited Permit restricted to the K-12 setting exists only for public education personnel hired before 15 March 2000; students in training may interpret up to 16 weeks in an educational setting", "year": "2026", "source_n": 14, "note": "Code of Ala. 34-16-5, 34-16-6, 34-16-7; Admin. Code 488-X-1 (source 19). No separate educational-interpreter rule in 290-3-3." } }, { "item": "Interpreters working in schools (FTE)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "92 interpreters, 92 fully certified, 0 not fully certified", "year": "2023-24", "source_n": 8, "note": "Federal personnel file; the Education Trust Fund funds \"Special Education Licensed Interpreters\" with teachers of the deaf in one 8,500,000 dollar line." } }, { "item": "Interpreter preparation programs in the state", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026", "source_n": 14, "note": "Not searched in this run (the D-039 search is owed at the next cycle); Code 34-16-9(d) directs surplus board funds to \"the education and training of interpreters and transliterators in postsecondary programs\"." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf license or endorsement", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "Special Education, Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Grades P-12), a teaching field under Admin. Code 290-3-3-.24 (revised 15 May 2025): program standards on family communication and culture, deaf peers and role models, interpreters and assistive technology, and visual learning environments, with field experiences at the certification grade level", "year": "2025", "source_n": 18, "note": "Certification under Chapter 290-3-2; Code 16-39-5 (State Board rules on personnel qualifications)." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf supply", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2023-24", "source_n": 8, "note": "The federal personnel file reports special education teachers in total (5,778; 5,701 fully certified), not by field; no count of deaf and hard of hearing certificates on the pages read." } }, { "item": "Teacher-of-the-deaf preparation program in the state", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026", "source_n": 18, "note": "Not searched in this run; 290-3-3-.24 is the program standard an Alabama institution would be approved under. A D-039 search is owed at the next cycle." } }, { "item": "Shortage designation", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026", "source_n": 37, "note": "No shortage or critical-need designation for the deaf and hard of hearing field was on the pages read." } }, { "item": "Educational audiologists working in schools (FTE)", "status": "published", "figure": { "value": "19 audiologists, 19 fully certified", "year": "2023-24", "source_n": 8, "note": "Federal personnel file; the Institute's Health and Clinical Services page was in the run." } }, { "item": "Paraprofessional / sign language aide standard", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026", "source_n": 14, "note": "No sign language aide standard in Title 34 Chapter 16, 488-X-1 or 290-3-3; one posting read in the sweep (Jasper City, \"Sign Language Interpreter (Aide)\") names the post without a standard." } }, { "item": "DeafBlind intervener standard and training", "status": "not published", "figure": { "value": "NOT PUBLISHED", "year": "2026", "source_n": 26, "note": "The Alabama Initiatives for DeafBlind Children and Youth publishes training (Connecting: Learning from Each Other); no intervener credential is published." } } ], "schools_programs_directory": [ { "id": "AL-001", "entity_name": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB)", "entity_type": "State educational institution (body corporate), the official state agency for the deaf and blind", "operating_authority": "Board of trustees under Code of Ala. 21-1-2 (the Governor, the State Superintendent of Education and 13 appointees confirmed by the Senate; the board page lists twelve appointees); designated the official state agency by 21-1-23", "city": "Talladega", "county": "Talladega", "educational_setting": "Three K-12 schools on the Talladega campuses (Alabama School for the Deaf, Alabama School for the Blind, Helen Keller School), residential and day; the Alabama Initiatives for DeafBlind Children and Youth; Outreach Instructional Services; Short-Term Programs (blind and visually impaired); RISE Autism; Health and Clinical Services" }, { "id": "AL-002", "entity_name": "Alabama School for the Deaf (ASD)", "entity_type": "State school for the deaf (residential and day), a school of the Institute", "operating_authority": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AL-001)", "city": "Talladega", "county": "Talladega", "educational_setting": "Separate school on the Talladega campus, residential and day (\"Our students can stay in the dorms in all grades\"); departments: Elementary, Listening and Spoken Language Program, High School, Career Tech, Student Development, Library; athletics against deaf schools in other states (Academic Bowl)" }, { "id": "AL-003", "entity_name": "Listening and Spoken Language Program, Alabama School for the Deaf", "entity_type": "Listening and spoken language program (a department of the state school)", "operating_authority": "Alabama School for the Deaf (AL-002), the Institute", "city": "Talladega", "county": "Talladega", "educational_setting": "Classes in Weaver Cottage on the ASD campus; small groups \"no more than 3:1\"; language-matched and academic-matched grouping; hearing assistive technology throughout the day" }, { "id": "AL-004", "entity_name": "Helen Keller School of Alabama (HKS)", "entity_type": "State school for pupils with sensory loss and additional disabilities (residential and day)", "operating_authority": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AL-001)", "city": "Talladega", "county": "Talladega", "educational_setting": "Separate school on the Talladega campus with dormitories; \"Classes at HKS are small and specialized with usually no more than seven students per teacher and aide\"; instruction on the Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards with daily living skills" }, { "id": "AL-005", "entity_name": "E. H. Gentry Facility, Services for the Deaf", "entity_type": "Adult rehabilitation and education facility of the Institute (post-secondary)", "operating_authority": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the adult department under Code of Ala. 21-1-15", "city": "Talladega", "county": "Talladega", "educational_setting": "Residential adult facility with independent living, adult education, college preparation, money management and employment services (the Services for the Deaf page names the instructors)" }, { "id": "AL-006", "entity_name": "AIDB Outreach Instructional Services, Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing", "entity_type": "Statewide outreach and itinerant consultation program to the public schools", "operating_authority": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AL-001)", "city": "Talladega", "county": "Talladega", "educational_setting": "Consultation in the child's own school: observation, testing where needed, consultation with parents and schools, attendance at eligibility and IEP meetings; free" }, { "id": "AL-007", "entity_name": "Alabama Initiatives for DeafBlind Children and Youth", "entity_type": "State deafblind project (registry, child count, technical assistance)", "operating_authority": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (the K-12 section of the site)", "city": "Talladega", "county": "Talladega", "educational_setting": "Registry and child count (the DB Registry / Child-Count page), partners, resources and training (Connecting: Learning from Each Other)" }, { "id": "AL-008", "entity_name": "AIDB Regional Centers (ten)", "entity_type": "Regional outreach, early intervention and adult service centers of the Institute", "operating_authority": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AL-001)", "city": "Ten cities, Birmingham to Tuscaloosa (see reach and notes)", "county": "Ten counties", "educational_setting": "Community-based centers: services for the deaf and hard of hearing, services for ages 0 to 3, sign language interpreter services, ASL classes, job development, assistive technology, the Alabama Telecommunications Access Program, transportation; no school-age classroom except KinderPrep (AL-009)" }, { "id": "AL-009", "entity_name": "KinderPrep Classes, AIDB Tuscaloosa Regional Center", "entity_type": "Preschool class for deaf and hard of hearing children (regional center program)", "operating_authority": "AIDB Tuscaloosa Regional Center (AL-008)", "city": "Tuscaloosa", "county": "Tuscaloosa", "educational_setting": "Class held Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the center: \"Sensory Exploration and Learning Student Center Classroom Environment\"" }, { "id": "AL-010", "entity_name": "Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind, Mobile County Public Schools", "entity_type": "Separate special school operated by a local system (PROGRAM, unit 049)", "operating_authority": "Mobile County Public School System (unit 049)", "city": "Mobile", "county": "Mobile", "educational_setting": "Own separate school: \"We also operate schools specifically for students with special needs: Augusta Evans Special School, Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind, the Continuous Learning Center (CLC), Pathway K-5, and Pathway 6-12\" (district special education page); the school's own page was not reached by the crawl" }, { "id": "AL-011", "entity_name": "Deaf and Hard of Hearing department, Shelby County Schools", "entity_type": "District deaf and hard of hearing department (PROGRAM weak, unit 059)", "operating_authority": "Shelby County Board of Education (unit 059)", "city": "Columbiana", "county": "Shelby", "educational_setting": "A department named in the special education page's department list beside Psychological Services and Visual Impairments, with \"Hearing Impaired Contacts\" in the contacts navigation; the department page was not reached" }, { "id": "AL-012", "entity_name": "Hearing impaired teaching posts named by local systems (DeKalb, Jackson, Calhoun counties)", "entity_type": "District staff posts (PROGRAM weak, units 025, 036, 008)", "operating_authority": "DeKalb County Schools, Jackson County Board of Education, Calhoun County Schools", "city": "Rainsville, Scottsboro, Anniston", "county": "DeKalb, Jackson, Calhoun", "educational_setting": "DeKalb: a \"Hearing Impaired\" teacher on the staff information roster (\"Sherri Bryant-Hearing Impaired\"); Jackson: \"Jessica Owens, Vision/Hearing Impaired Specialist\" on the host one D-039 search found; Calhoun: the district Special Education Plan PDF, \"The teacher of the Hearing Impaired will check the hearing aids on a regular basis\"" }, { "id": "AL-013", "entity_name": "Alabama State Department of Education, Special Education Services", "entity_type": "State education agency (the IDEA Part B state agency)", "operating_authority": "State Board of Education; State Superintendent Dr. Eric Mackey", "city": "Montgomery", "county": "Montgomery", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "AL-014", "entity_name": "Alabama Licensure Board for Interpreters and Transliterators (ALBIT)", "entity_type": "State licensure board", "operating_authority": "Nine members appointed by the Governor under Code of Ala. 34-16-4 (one certified interpreter working in an educational setting)", "city": "Montgomery", "county": "Montgomery", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "AL-015", "entity_name": "Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Alabama's Early Intervention System", "entity_type": "IDEA Part C lead agency", "operating_authority": "Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services", "city": "Montgomery", "county": "Montgomery", "educational_setting": "Family-centered services in natural environments through local programs; \"sign language and cued language speech services\" among the services the Department of Public Health's page lists" }, { "id": "AL-016", "entity_name": "Alabama Department of Public Health, Newborn Hearing Screening (Alabama's Listening!, the EHDI program)", "entity_type": "State newborn hearing screening and EHDI program", "operating_authority": "Alabama Department of Public Health, Bureau of Clinical Laboratories, Newborn Screening Program", "city": "Montgomery", "county": "Montgomery", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "AL-017", "entity_name": "Alabama Public Charter School Commission (APCSC)", "entity_type": "Statewide charter authorizer", "operating_authority": "State of Alabama (Code 16-6F, the v1.0 record)", "city": "Montgomery", "county": "Montgomery", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "AL-018", "entity_name": "Alabama Department of Revenue, CHOOSE Act education savings accounts and the Alabama Accountability Act scholarships", "entity_type": "Market-layer instruments (administering agency)", "operating_authority": "Alabama Department of Revenue (ClassWallet administers the ESA funds)", "city": "Montgomery", "county": "Montgomery", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "AL-019", "entity_name": "Alabama Association of the Deaf (AAD)", "entity_type": "Consumer organization (nominates three board members to ALBIT)", "operating_authority": "Private association", "city": "Not stated", "county": "", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "AL-020", "entity_name": "Alabama Hands & Voices", "entity_type": "Parent organization", "operating_authority": "Private non-profit (the v1.0 record)", "city": "Not stated", "county": "", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" }, { "id": "AL-021", "entity_name": "Woolley Institute for Spoken Language Education (WISE)", "entity_type": "Private listening and spoken language school named in the Education Trust Fund act", "operating_authority": "Private non-profit (not read)", "city": "Birmingham (the v1.0 record)", "county": "Jefferson", "educational_setting": "Not read" }, { "id": "AL-022", "entity_name": "Southwest School of Deaf and Blind (Education Trust Fund line)", "entity_type": "Budget line, identity not established", "operating_authority": "Not established", "city": "Not stated", "county": "", "educational_setting": "Not stated" }, { "id": "AL-023", "entity_name": "Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts", "entity_type": "State audit agency (source of the Institute's audits)", "operating_authority": "Legislative branch", "city": "Montgomery", "county": "Montgomery", "educational_setting": "Not applicable" } ], "disclosure": { "relationships": [], "statement": "Novara Consulting Group LLC, the publisher of the Index, has no financial, partnership or funding relationship with any Alabama body named in this file. No request for this file is on the Index's record; it was built in the Index's own sequence (the v1.0 first-prompt file of 13 August 2026 and this v2.0 re-audit under NAT-004 v1.6 wave 1, moved to November by D-065), unfunded by any outside party, with no editorial input from any body named. No Alabama body was contacted before the notice stage.", "compiled": "2026-10-29" }, "notice": { "applies": true, "recipients": [ { "body": "Alabama State Department of Education, Special Education Services (the state education agency), once", "route_used": "the Department's published contact page address (comm@alsde.edu), confirmed by the person who sent it" }, { "body": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB), once, as operator of the Alabama School for the Deaf, the Helen Keller School, the Outreach Instructional Services, the regional centers and the state deafblind project (the Board of Trustees in the address line)", "route_used": "the Institute's published contact route (advancement@aidb.org on every page; 205 South Street East, Talladega, AL 35160), confirmed by the person who sends it" }, { "body": "Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, as the IDEA Part C lead agency (Alabama's Early Intervention System)", "route_used": "the Division Director's address as the federal Part C directory (ECTA) lists it (amy.blakeney@rehab.alabama.gov); the Department's own site publishes a telephone number only" }, { "body": "Mobile County Public School System, as operator of the Callahan School for the Deaf and Blind, the one local system the narrative discusses by name beyond its coverage code", "route_used": "the district's published contact route, confirmed by the person who sends it", "deferred": { "on": "2026-10-29", "reason": "Deferred to the next version: the Mobile County Public School System publishes no email route for notice (its pages give a telephone number only), and no notice by post went before the window closed on 26 October 2026. A route is being found; the system may use the standing correction route at any time." } } ], "sent": "2026-10-09", "window_closed": "2026-10-26", "responses": [], "reason": "Notice under STD-005 goes to the Department in every case, to the Institute once as the operator of every state program the file names (its board is not a separate body), and to the Part C lead (the list adopted at stop one, 6 October 2026). Mobile County is listed under STD-005 section 2 (a local education agency the narrative discusses by name), kept by the owner on 8 October 2026; it publishes no email route, and its notice is deferred to the next version (the register, 29 October 2026). Named without notice: the Department of Public Health (EHDI), the Examiners, the Licensure Board for Interpreters, the Public Charter School Commission, the Association of the Deaf, Hands & Voices, the Department of Revenue and the Woolley Institute; the other local systems are served by the standing correction route (D-044). Sent by a person from the contact of record on 9 October 2026 (Central) to the other three; the window closed 26 October 2026 with no response and no route failure." }, "contact_of_record": { "mailbox": "notice@ndedi.org", "postal": "Novara Consulting Group LLC, 18140 Zane St NW #159, Elk River, MN 55330" }, "changelog": [ { "version": "1.0", "date": "2026-08-13", "change": "First release on the first prompt (the generic template, D-012): the narrative, the workbook built by build_al.py with its inline data (139 city and county systems plus 13 charter agencies, 152 rows; 2 PROGRAM, 43 MENTION, 54 NONE FOUND, 52 NOT VERIFIABLE, 1 NOT AUDITED, on text fetch), the verification trail and the evidence source record. 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Frame re-verified on the state's instruments (139 systems plus 14 charter agencies, 153 rows; Ivy Classical Academy added; two 2025-26 charters read once and not counted); closure read of every unit in the rendered browser on 6 October 2026 (148 reads, 1,476 pages, two-file captures of every hit and seeded page) with the failed addresses tried again and searched once on 8 October (five read on a found host; four NOT VERIFIABLE with the deep review mark) and twelve seeded re-reads; the compiler review of every keyword hit with the series rule that a MENTION needs a hearing term (5 PROGRAM, 4 weak; 56 MENTION; 88 NONE FOUND; 4 NOT VERIFIABLE); the state child count by system for October 2024 and October 2025 on every row (the Institute as system 600: 150 of 842) and the publication measure computed (100 of 842 in PROGRAM units); the federal 618 child count, environments and personnel files read (842; 49 separate school, 95 residential; interpreters 92, audiologists 19); the Code chapters (Title 21 Chapter 1, Title 34 Chapter 16, Title 16 Chapter 39, 22-20-3) read section by section from the Legislature's host and four Administrative Code chapters as byte originals; 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SHA-256 b80f08e6...): the same table for October 2025 (AIDB: hearing impairment 144, deaf-blindness 3, total 309)", "url": "https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/RD_SPECED_20260602_2025ChildCountbySystem_v1.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 3, "title": "Alabama State Department of Education, 2024 Child Count by Age and Exceptionality (RD_SPECED_20250415_2024-Child-Count-by-Age-and-Exceptionality_V1.0.pdf; SHA-256 f0f02f73...): state totals October 2024, hearing impairment 842, deaf-blindness 19, all exceptionalities 108,144", "url": "https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/RD_SPECED_20250415_2024-Child-Count-by-Age-and-Exceptionality_V1.0.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 4, "title": "Alabama State Department of Education, 2025 Child Count by Exceptionality (RD_SPECED_20260610_2025ChildCountbyExcept_v1.pdf; SHA-256 a6e1bbb5...): state totals October 2025, hearing impairment 874, deaf-blindness 15, all exceptionalities 111,365", "url": "https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/RD_SPECED_20260610_2025ChildCountbyExcept_v1.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 5, "title": "Alabama State Department of Education, 2024 and 2025 Child Count by System, Age and Exceptionality (RD_SPECED_20250514_-2024-Child-Count-by-System-Age-and-Exceptionality_V1.0.pdf, SHA-256 e19199a7...; RD_SPECED_20260724_2025ChildCountbySysExcept_v1.pdf, SHA-256 b753eb26...): the per-system tables by age band", "url": "https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/RD_SPECED_20250514_-2024-Child-Count-by-System-Age-and-Exceptionality_V1.0.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 6, "title": "Alabama State Department of Education, FFY 2024 Part B State Performance Plan / Annual Performance Report (RD_SER_20260424_FFY2024SPPAPR_v1.pdf, April 2026; SHA-256 8f8da18f...): disability category table ages 3 to 21, hearing impairment 842 (144 in the Indicator 3 assessed group, 17.10 percent), deaf-blindness 19 (suppressed); 0.78 percent of the identified population", "url": "https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RD_SER_20260424_FFY2024SPPAPR_v1.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 7, "title": "U.S. Department of Education, IDEA Section 618 Part B child count and educational environments, state-level file 2024-25 (bchildcountandedenvironment2024-25.csv, SHA-256 d77789297b594b20dd93561338fd09cbe68d6c6a4c5fa01b4d4142eb6d151f52), read from data.ed.gov; Alabama rows for hearing impairment and deaf-blindness extracted (38 rows): hearing impairment 842 (795 school age, 47 early childhood), deaf-blindness 19", "url": "https://data.ed.gov/dataset/71ca7d0c-a161-4abe-9e2b-4e68ffb1061a/resource/fdc6eb2c-4a4e-44ef-8b3d-01e68671e47c/download/bchildcountandedenvironment2024-25.csv", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 8, "title": "U.S. Department of Education, IDEA Section 618 Part B personnel, state-level file 2023-24 (bpersonnel2023-24.csv, SHA-256 6614b2bb...; data notes workbook beside it): Alabama rows, interpreters 92 (92 fully certified), audiologists 19, special education teachers 5,778 (5,701 fully certified), paraprofessionals 6,145, speech-language pathologists 1,005", "url": "https://data.ed.gov/dataset/fc85541b-d729-4722-8622-e814dae86b5b/resource/4f814d4e-a6b2-409c-ad14-a66f6718a669/download/bpersonnel2023-24.csv", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 9, "title": "National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, LEA directory file 2024-25 v1a (ccd_lea_029_2425_w_1a_073025.zip, SHA-256 2745169e...) and 2025-26 v0a preliminary (ccd_lea_029_2526_w_0a_050626.zip, SHA-256 37653948...); Alabama rows extracted (162 in 2024-25: 139 city and county systems, 17 charter LEAs, 5 state agency rows, 1 closed), with the website field that is the D-043 directory field", "url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/Data/zip/ccd_lea_029_2425_w_1a_073025.zip", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 10, "title": "Alabama State Department of Education, Directory of Alabama Public Schools 2025 (COMM_20250106_DAPS-2025_V1.0.pdf, January 2025; SHA-256 3a3301c2...) with the State Superintendent's memo FY25-1001 of 7 January 2025: every system with its address, telephone, website, board and superintendent; the regional inservice center map (pages 23 to 25) placing each city system under its county", "url": "https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/COMM_20250106_DAPS-2025_V1.0.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 11, "title": "Alabama State Department of Education, Alabama Public Schools and Systems Listed by State Board of Education Districts, updated 26 September 2025 (SBOE_20250929_Schools-Listed-by-Board-Districts_v2.pdf; SHA-256 38d52a0c...): the systems roster the frame re-verification used (139 city and county systems)", "url": "https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SBOE_20250929_Schools-Listed-by-Board-Districts_v2.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 12, "title": "Alabama State Department of Education, Current Charter School Listing (SS_CS_2025128_CurrentCharterSchoolListing_v1.pdf, 8 December 2025; SHA-256 5a68ed78...) and Listing of Charter School Authorizers (CS_20251223_ListingCharterSchoolAuthorizers_v2.pdf, 23 December 2025; SHA-256 b6d1d348...): the operating charters, their authorizers (the Alabama Public Charter School Commission, Montgomery Public Schools, Elmore County) and the three Montgomery conversion charters inside system 051", "url": "https://www.alabamaachieves.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/SS_CS_2025128_CurrentCharterSchoolListing_v1.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 13, "title": "Code of Alabama 1975, Title 21, Chapter 1, Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, 38 sections as the Legislature's Code application serves them (SHA-256 e86fccee...): 21-1-1 (body corporate at Talladega), 21-1-2 (board of trustees: the Governor, the State Superintendent and 13 appointees), 21-1-8 (residential programs at any location, no age limit), 21-1-10 (mandatory enrollment of a deaf or blind child unable to progress in the local public schools), 21-1-14 (nonresidents charged full cost), 21-", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/code-of-alabama", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "Legislature's GraphQL data route walked section by section from the rendered Code page, digested" }, { "n": 14, "title": "Code of Alabama 1975, Title 34, Chapter 16, Alabama Licensure for Interpreters and Transliterators Act (Act 98-675), 16 sections (SHA-256 f2f3ee98...): 34-16-3 definitions, 34-16-4 the board (nine members, one certified interpreter working in an educational setting), 34-16-5 license on a nationally recognized certification, 34-16-6 permits, 34-16-7 exemptions including public education personnel hired before 15 March 2000 on a restricted permit", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/code-of-alabama", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "Legislature's GraphQL data route walked section by section from the rendered Code page, digested" }, { "n": 15, "title": "Code of Alabama 1975, Title 16, Chapter 39, Education of Exceptional Children (Act 1971-106), 17 sections (SHA-256 bc66a3f4...): 16-39-2 definitions naming \"the hearing impaired, deaf, and partially hearing\" among exceptional children ages six to 21; 16-39-3 twelve consecutive years of instruction at public expense; 16-39-5 State Board rules on specialists and personnel; 16-39-9 the Institute's annual report of possible exceptional children to each school board", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/code-of-alabama", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "Legislature's GraphQL data route walked section by section from the rendered Code page, digested" }, { "n": 16, "title": "Code of Alabama 1975, Section 22-20-3 with 22-20-3.1 and 22-20-3.2, newborn screening (SHA-256 611d024b...): the Newborn Screening Panel and Program of the Department of Public Health; and the Department's Newborn Hearing Screening page (Alabama's Listening!, EHDI since February 2001; universal newborn hearing screening a mandated part of the panel since 2008; screening at 24 to 48 hours; referral to Alabama's Early Intervention System)", "url": "https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/newbornscreening/newborn-hearing-screening.html", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live DOM and body text saved and digested at ingest" }, { "n": 17, "title": "Alabama Administrative Code, Chapter 290-8-9, Special Education Services (admincode.legislature.state.al.us/api/chapter/290-8-9, 290,067 bytes, SHA-256 c0220604...): 290-8-9-.03(5) Hearing Impairment, definition (\"an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child's educational performance. This term includes both deaf and hard-of-hearing\"), criteria (vision screening, audiological data, adverse effect) and minimum evaluative components; the deaf-blindness", "url": "https://admincode.legislature.state.al.us/api/chapter/290-8-9", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 18, "title": "Alabama Administrative Code, Chapter 290-3-3, Teacher Education (571,693 bytes, SHA-256 1eaa3fc3..., revised 15 May 2025) and Chapter 290-3-2, Teacher Certification (362,337 bytes, SHA-256 02b21a3a...): rule 290-3-3-.24 Special Education, Deaf and Hard of Hearing (P-12) and Visual Impairment (P-12), the program standard for the deaf and hard of hearing teaching field (family communication and culture, deaf peers and role models, interpreters and assistive technology, visual learning environments", "url": "https://admincode.legislature.state.al.us/api/chapter/290-3-3", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 19, "title": "Alabama Administrative Code, Chapter 488-X-1, Alabama Licensure Board for Interpreters and Transliterators (55,988 bytes, SHA-256 e7d7f9c9...): the license on RID, NAD, BEI or EIPA credentials; the Permit; the Non-Renewable Permit (one year); the Limited Permit restricted to the K-12 setting for public education personnel hired before 15 March 2000; the Apprentice permit; continuing education; and the Board's website (albit.alabama.gov, About page captured 8 October 2026)", "url": "https://admincode.legislature.state.al.us/api/chapter/488-X-1", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 20, "title": "Alabama Legislature, Legislative Services Agency, Fiscal Division, Education Trust Fund Comparison Sheet for FY 2027, HB238 (Act 2026-380), 2026 Regular Session, enacted (ETF-FY27-ENACTED.pdf, 342,122 bytes, SHA-256 2592ff06...): line 628 Deaf and Blind, Alabama Institute for, FY2026 budgeted 81,835,358, FY2027 enacted 85,592,459 (Adult Programs 18,892,952 with the Birmingham Regional Office 10,000; Children and Youth Programs; Industries for the Blind); line 185 Special Education Licensed Inter", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/lsa/Fiscal/FY2027/ETF/ETF-FY27-ENACTED.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 21, "title": "State of Alabama, Executive Budget Office, Budget Report FY2027 (State-of-Alabama-Budget-Report-2027-FINAL-2.pdf, January 2026, 9,117,300 bytes, SHA-256 2c32f463...): AIDB Children and Youth Program (ETF operations and maintenance 47,798,768 actual FY2025, 50,938,706 estimated FY2026, 52,579,603 recommended FY2027; total revenues 70,719,633 FY2025; 669.15 FTE), Adult Programs (17,183,900; 18,043,095; 18,970,259; 298.37 FTE), the ALSDE functions (Special Education Licensed Interpreters Deaf/HOH T", "url": "https://budget.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/State-of-Alabama-Budget-Report-2027-FINAL-2.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 22, "title": "State of Alabama, Executive Budget Office, Budget Report FY2026 (9,291,627 bytes, SHA-256 cb89efcf...) and Budget Report FY2025 (5,101,772 bytes, SHA-256 9ab6190f...): the AIDB program pages and the ALSDE functions for the two prior years", "url": "https://budget.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/State-of-Alabama-Budget-Report-2026-FULL-BOOK-3.19.25.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 23, "title": "State of Alabama, Executive Budget Office, Education Trust Fund appropriation summaries: FY2025 (ETF-APPR-REC-SEP-FY25.pdf, SHA-256 a5e9156d...; AIDB 79,224,627) and FY2026 (SEP-ETF2026.pdf, SHA-256 a5abbd9b...; AIDB 82,335,358 as printed, against 81,835,358 budgeted on the FY2027 comparison sheet), with the Office's index page", "url": "https://budget.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/SEP-ETF2026.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 24, "title": "Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, Report 26-359, fiscal year ended 30 September 2025 (6,633,852 bytes, SHA-256 1a509ac4...): Education Trust Fund support 80,728,461 (59.1 percent of total revenue; the prior year 77,719,090); private grants and contributions 9,442,130; 30,588 individuals served on campus programs, 16,191 through residential and outreach programs, 5,348 seniors, 9,049 through the regional centers; IDEA Part B expenditures 1,1", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/eopa/audit_reports/26-359_26-359-AIDB.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 25, "title": "Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, AIDB Report 25-405, fiscal year ended 30 September 2024 (3,981,475 bytes, SHA-256 defe0584...; ETF 77,719,090; private grants 14,922,678; 31,151 served, 15,238 residential and outreach, 7,212 seniors, 8,701 regional centers), Report 24-249, fiscal year ended 30 September 2023 (5,770,460 bytes, SHA-256 3a7d715d...; ETF 77,930,008; private grants 10,550,210; 32,374, 15,436, 9,905, 7,033) and Report 23-271, fiscal year 2022 (4,457,417 bytes, SHA-2", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/epa-audit-reports", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 26, "title": "Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, institute pages read as seeded sets on 6 October 2026 (runs 600-1-s, 113 pages with the other runs): About, Meet our President (Dr. John Mascia, Au.D., Interim President; President 2013 to 2023), Board of Trustees (twelve appointees with the Governor and the State Superintendent), Frequently Asked Questions (\"Approximately ninety percent of funding for AIDB's schools and services' budget is provided through an appropriation from the Alabama Legislature\"; the", "url": "https://www.aidb.org/about", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the compiler's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 27, "title": "Alabama School for the Deaf, departmental pages (run 600-2-s): About Us (beliefs), Elementary (\"Preschool through 6th grade classes. ASL preschool and Kindergarten classes are housed in the Woods Language Arts Center and the Listening and Spoken Language classes are housed in Weaver Cottage\"), Listening and Spoken Language Program welcome (vision: \"a rich auditory learning environment for students who have good auditory access to speech\"; \"no more than 3:1\" small groups; \"success in their local ", "url": "https://www.aidb.org/about-us-asd", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the compiler's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 28, "title": "Helen Keller School of Alabama pages (run 600-3-s): home (mission), Academics (\"no more than seven students per teacher and aide\"; the Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards), Teachers, Transition, Principal, Residential (dormitory life skills; a nurse on campus 24 hours), Dormitories, Recreation, FAQ, Resources, the ASL/Deaf resources page, Student Development; and the Birmingham Regional Center homepage, staff directory, services for the deaf and hard of hearing, early intervention, interpret", "url": "https://www.aidb.org/k12/helen-keller-school", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the compiler's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 29, "title": "AIDB Regional Centers, the ten centers' pages (runs 600-4-s to 600-8-s): Birmingham, Decatur, Dothan, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Opelika, Shoals, Talladega and Tuscaloosa, each the homepage with its county list (the Birmingham homepage carries none), services for the deaf and hard of hearing, services for ages 0 to 3 (early intervention), sign language interpreter services, staff directory and contact pages; the Tuscaloosa KinderPrep Classes page (ages 3 to 5, Monday to Friday 8:00 to 2:00,", "url": "https://www.aidb.org/adult-services/regional-centers", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser on the compiler's computer (Chrome extension), two-file capture" }, { "n": 30, "title": "Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services, Early Intervention page (Alabama's Early Intervention System: birth to three; funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Education Trust Fund; governed by 34 CFR Part 303, Code of Ala. Title 21 Chapter 3A and Admin. Code 795-3-1) and the ALSDE Special Education Services page with its navigation (Disability Areas, Regional Contacts, Special Education Fiscal, Special Education Reports)", "url": "https://www.rehab.alabama.gov/services/ei", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live DOM and body text saved and digested at ingest" }, { "n": 31, "title": "Alabama Department of Revenue, Alabama Accountability Act page (the scholarship program under Code 16-6D; Scholarship Granting Organizations; the participating non-public schools list) with the 2025 SGO Annual Report form (2025_SGO_Annual_Report.pdf, 99,983 bytes, SHA-256 e34c1147...), and the CHOOSE Act page (education savings accounts of 7,000 dollars per participating student in a participating school, 2,000 for home education; the first 500 awards to special-needs students; 2026-27 applicati", "url": "https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/tax-policy/the-choose-act/", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live DOM and body text saved and digested at ingest" }, { "n": 32, "title": "Act 2024-21, the Creating Hope and Opportunity for Our Students' Education Act of 2024 (CHOOSE Act), enrolled text as the Department of Revenue serves it (CHOOSE-Act-2024-21.pdf, 626,981 bytes, SHA-256 cf2d6698...): section 2(12) special-needs student (IDEA or Section 504); section 3 the refundable credit of 7,000 dollars; section 4(h) a special-needs participating student \"remains eligible to receive special education or similar services from the resident school district\"; the CHOOSE Act Fund o", "url": "https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CHOOSE-Act-2024-21.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 33, "title": "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022 Hearing Screening and Follow-up Survey, Data Summary (01_2022-HSFS_Data-Summary.pdf, 290,842 bytes, SHA-256 adde2252...) and Detailed Screening Results (03_2022-HSFS_Detailed-Screening-Results.pdf, 322,539 bytes, SHA-256 4e0c9996...) on archive.cdc.gov, with the CDC data page: Alabama is not among the 43 jurisdictions with a 2022 row (the list begins at Alaska), as the v1.0 file found", "url": "https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/ncbddd/hearingloss/2022-data/01-data-summary.html", "access_date": "2026-10-08", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 34, "title": "National Center on Deafblindness, 2024 National Deafblind Child Count Report (1,220,070 bytes, SHA-256 97cdf7cf...): Alabama 291 children served during the year, 281 on the 1 December count; 2023 report (1,875,672 bytes, SHA-256 c7eb0210...): 252 and 205; with the Center's child count page (the count includes children with additional disabilities, which the federal category count does not)", "url": "https://www.nationaldb.org/media/doc/2024_National_Deafblind_Child_Count_Report_a.pdf", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser same-origin fetch, byte original saved to disk with SHA-256 recomputed at ingest" }, { "n": 35, "title": "Alabama Legislature, bill search records as the Legislature's data route serves them: every instrument matching the Institute's name (650 of 37,433 records, SHA-256 6b5f55ba...) and the 2021 to 2026 sessions (63 records, SHA-256 96c3725b...): no act of 2025 or 2026 restructures the Institute; the annual Education Trust Fund acts carry its appropriation; SB22 of 2026 amends board appointments generally", "url": "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "Legislature's GraphQL data route walked section by section from the rendered Code page, digested" }, { "n": 36, "title": "OPTION Schools, member list (optionschools.org, redirecting to optionlsl.org/our-members/): no Alabama member on the page (0 mentions); the Woolley Institute for Spoken Language Education, named in the Education Trust Fund act, is not on the list and its site was not read in this run", "url": "https://optionlsl.org/our-members/", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live DOM and body text saved and digested at ingest" }, { "n": 37, "title": "Alabama State Department of Education, Public Records page (requests through the Department's Public Records Center at mycusthelp.com; an address is required; K-12 public schools only)", "url": "https://www.alabamaachieves.org/public-records/", "access_date": "2026-10-06", "retrieval_method": "rendered browser, live DOM and body text saved and digested at ingest" }, { "n": 38, "title": "Unit sweep, attempt one, 6 October 2026: 148 units read in the rendered browser with the Alabama closure probe v1 (1,476 pages; TEXTCAPTURE and DOM pairs for every page with a keyword hit and every seeded page; the Calhoun County Special 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