Alabama, state file 01

Coverage summary

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

• 153Units in frameExhaustive frame
• 149Readable subsetThe frame less NOT VERIFIABLE and NOT AUDITED: every unit whose pages were read
• 4PROGRAM rows with a weak-evidence flag

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

District coverage

One row per unit in frame. The table opens on each unit's coverage code and flags; Detailed adds the evidence note, the source, how the page was read, the pass at which the code was set, and every other column. Search, filter by code or agency type, and page through every row.

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

Operator silence

Counted in both directions for each statewide provider: the provider's own published count, and the agencies in frame that name the provider as a Deaf and hard of hearing service mechanism, named outright.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Publication against identified population

Identified population

842 2024-25 Source 3

In agencies that publish a program

100 2024-25 Source 1

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.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Identified population by agency

Each unit with an identified count the state publishes or suppresses, with its coverage code, so the measure above can be recounted from the file. A mark such as an asterisk is the state's suppression mark, as published; an empty cell is a count the state does not publish for the unit.

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

State indicators

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Identified population over time

The count of identified students with hearing impairment and with deaf-blindness as the primary category, for each year the state publishes, as published. Where two instruments give a count for the same year, both rows are shown with their sources. No change between years is computed.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Fiscal channels

The channels at FRM-003, each with its status. Amounts are as published, nominal, and marked enacted or appropriated; they are not added across channels, and no per-pupil figure is computed.

Every figure a channel carries

Where a channel carries a series, each fiscal year as published with its basis (actual, revised, enacted, appropriated, or as the instrument names it). The figures are not added across years or channels.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Workforce

The standards and the supply behind a Deaf child's classroom: the qualification the state requires of an educational interpreter, the training and preparation programs, the teacher of the deaf credential, shortage designations, the paraprofessional, intervener, and audiologist standards, and the special education workforce. Each figure is as published; no ratio is computed.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Schools and programs

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

The remaining columns (ages or grades, communication and language approach, ASL availability, residential service, enrollment, cost to family, governance basis, accreditation, leadership, notes, and primary source) are part of the licensed state file. Access tiers and the licence request route

The frame

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

Frame

Exhaustive

The deaf and blind boundary decision

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).

Reference years and frameworks

Enrollment and child count

Baseline: the October 2024 ALSDE child count (by system and by exceptionality) with the 2024-25 federal 618 file beside it; October 2025 carried as the next cycle's figure.

Fiscal

FY2025 (year ended 30 September 2025, actual), FY2026 (budgeted) and FY2027 (enacted, Act 2026-380): the ETF acts, the Executive Budget Office reports, the Examiners' FY2025 audit.

Institutional framework

As in force on the run dates, 6 and 8 October 2026: the Code of Alabama and the Administrative Code as the Legislature's applications served them.

Frameworks applied

FRM-001 1.0, FRM-002 1.0, FRM-003 1.0, FRM-004 1.0, FRM-005 1.0, STD-002 1.2

The method as applied

Normalizations in force

Every normalization applied in this run: the FRM-004 set and the state's own standing false positives, as the file records them.

• 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.

The method and its known 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.

Disclosure

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

October 29, 2026

Notice and correction record

Notice sent

October 9, 2026

Window closed

October 26, 2026

Responses

No response was received before the window closed.

Contact of record

Notice, comment, and correction on this state file reach the Index at the contact of record the file names.

Mailbox

notice@ndedi.org

Postal address

Novara Consulting Group LLC, 18140 Zane St NW #159, Elk River, MN 55330

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Version history

• v2.0

  October 8, 2026, cause: re-audit

  Re-audit from the v1.0 standard (NAT-004 v1.6 section 1; D-058 wave 1; D-065, November). 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; the FY2027 Education Trust Fund act (85,592,459; the 8,500,000 interpreters and teachers line; the Woolley and Southwest School lines), the three Budget Reports, the Examiners' FY2022 to FY2025 reports (the FY2024 report found), the CHOOSE Act; the Institute read as seeded sets (113 pages); the Fiscal and Workforce sheets built from nothing; data modules to the schema 1.3 contract (entities.py authored, al_data.py generated), the eight-sheet workbook, the narrative with Annex A, the trail with the delta table and the twenty believed facts, reconcile.py and the STD-003 checklist; stop-three handback before notice.

• v1.0

  August 13, 2026, cause: first release

  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. The row was not written at the time; entered on 8 October 2026 from the v1.0 record (the changelog carried four columns and no row).

Checks record

Release checklist version

1.4

Run date

October 30, 2026

Reconciliation output

01_Alabama_reconciliation_output_2026-10-30.txt

Run ledger identifiers

R-2026-10-09-01, R-2026-10-09-02, R-2026-10-09-03

Custody and report checks

Report checks output

01_Alabama_report_checks_2026-10-29.txt

UK spellings in the Index's own prose

0

Files in the evidence manifest

1,014

Evidence manifest check

Pass

Sources with an archive snapshot

0

Sources with no archive snapshot

0

Archive lookups that failed

0

Deposit

DOI for version 2.0

10.5281/zenodo.23254313

DOI for every version (resolves to the newest)

10.5281/zenodo.23254312

Deposit record

zenodo.org/records/23254313

Deposited

October 9, 2026

Licence on the record

Summary layer under the free terms; the licensed files are restricted on the record (STD-004 v1.0 section 3) (licensed files restricted; metadata and the summary export open)

SHA-256 of the package as imported

a6ec3dfdae7766f48d6f5d97efd673fa65fa4bdb4204440dc2a88357d19a8353

Sources

Each source with its access date and its Internet Archive status as the archive status file recorded it at the run: a snapshot found, with its date and address; no snapshot; a lookup that failed; or not requested.

Gaps a records request could close

Each gap this file records that a request to a public body could close, with the record requested, the route, and the request as the file records it. A gap with an identifier has been asked; a gap without one has not yet been asked. The gap stands until the record is published.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

The narrative profile

What the narrative covers

• In plain language
• Summary of findings
• Governance and legal framework
• The state school
• Communication and language approach
• The statewide outreach and early intervention layer
• The local education agency layer and the charter agencies
• The private and listening and spoken language sector
• The market layer
• What local education agencies publish
• Data, and what the state does not measure
• Fiscal allocation and legislative context
• The workforce
• Open items
• Notice and correction
• Sources
• Annex A. How to read this file

The licensed state file for Alabama carries the narrative profile of this version (12,979 words, rendered here for a licensee), the report and its evidence supplement as PDF and Word, and the workbook with every sheet, and it carries the same figures as this page. It is licensed per state, with a reduced-rate product for Deaf-led and disability organizations, and under the State Partner and national licences. How to request a licence

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The frame, the tallies, the operator silence counts, the indicators, and the fiscal channels of this version. With them, every other part of this page that is free: the plain-language summary, the method as applied, the identified population over time, the workforce, the Schools and Programs directory, the records requests, the contact of record, and the archive status of the sources. The District Coverage rows and the identified population by agency are viewable on this page and are not in the export.

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