Kyle Whitmire: A Closer Look at Board of Education Meetings

| July 10, 2013 

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Kyle Whitmire with AL.com and The Birmingham News attended this week’s Board of Education meeting. Tensions at the meeting were high between state intervention team officials and elected board members. Kyle explains why the state intervention team is there in the first place as well as what needs to be accomplished before it can leave.

 

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