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Board approves agenda, minutes, AUM visual-impairment program and proclaims CareerTech Month

Alabama State Board of Education · February 10, 2026

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Summary

At its Jan. 8 off-site meeting in Mobile, the Alabama State Board of Education approved the meeting agenda and Dec. 11 minutes, adopted a resolution allowing Auburn University at Montgomery to host a Class A visual-impairment educator-preparation program and proclaimed February 2026 as Career and Technical Education Month. Vote tallies were by raised hand and are not specified in the transcript.

The Alabama State Board of Education met Jan. 8 at the University of South Alabama in Mobile and approved routine procedural items and two resolutions by voice/raised-hand votes that did not include roll-call tallies in the transcript.

The board first approved the meeting agenda and the minutes from the Dec. 11, 2025 meeting after motions were made, seconded and carried. The transcript records the procedural motions and the chair’s calls for voice approval but does not list individual vote tallies.

The board then considered and approved a resolution to establish a Class A visual-impairment educator-preparation program at Auburn University at Montgomery. Explaining the proposal, Dr. Mackey said the professor who ran a similar program had moved to AUM and that "it will be the only master's level visual impairment program in the state," a rationale the board accepted before voting to adopt the resolution.

The board also adopted a proclamation naming February 2026 as Alabama Career and Technical Education Month. Dr. Mackey described planned celebrations and student participation at the February meeting, calling it "a big month" for career-technical education and outlining the department’s plans to highlight CareerTech activities and invite students to board events.

All motions recorded in the transcript were moved, seconded and approved by raised hand; the transcript does not provide counts or member-by-member votes. The chair announced the next full board meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 12 at 10 a.m. in the Gordon Persons Building Auditorium.