HEADQUARTERS. NEXT WEEK WHEN

YOU HEAD TO THE POLLS, ONE OF

THE ITEMS ON THE BALLOT COULD

CHANGE THE WAY STATE SCHOOL

BOARD MEMBERS ARE SELECTED.

STATE CAPITOL REPORTER RESHAD

HUDSON TAKES A CLOSER LOOK AT

AMENDMENT ONE.

RESHAD: ALABAMA IS ONE OF SIX

STATES WITH AN ELECTED STATE

SCHOOL, NEXT TUESDAY VOTERS

WILL HAVE A SAY IF WHETHER THE

STATE SHOULD KEEP IT THAT WAY.

AMENDMENT ONE WOULD CHANGE THE

STATE SCHOOL BOARD FROM

ELECTED TO APPOINTED BY THE

GOVERNOR. "What we're actually

asking the people to do is put

their responsibility in us.

Right now the people make that

choice and in that group

determines school policy" THE

AMENDMENT CREATES THE "ALABAMA

COMMISSION ON ELEMENTARY AND

SECONDARY EDUCATION." CHANGES

"STATE SUPERINTENDEN T OF

EDUCATION" TO THE "SECRETARY

OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY

EDUCATION." AND LASTLY IT

WOULD REQUIRED THE ADOPTION OF

DIFFERENT EDUCATION STANDARDS

INSTEAD OF "COMMON CORE" NOT

ALL VOTERS SUPPORT THIS

AMENDMENT, BECKY GERRITSON IS

ONE OF THEM. "The regular

Joe's that I see out on the

streets, people that I go to

church with people, my

neighbors that asked me about

this, they all want to vote

no, they don't think it's

right to take away the right

to vote" HERE ARE A FEW STATES

THAT HAVE LIKE MASSACHUSETTS ,

NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW JERSEY,

VIRGINIA, FLORIDA, INDIANA,

VERMONT, SOUTH DAKOTA, IOWA

THAT HAVE APPOINTED SCHOOL

BOARDS, SUPPORTERS POINT THEIR

SUCCESS IN EDUCATION. RESHAD:

ALABAMA'S PRIMARY IS NEXT

TUESDAY MARCH 3RD. RESHAD

HUDSON REPORTING...