After 12 years of serving as the Orange County Department of Education’s superintendent, Al Mijares will retire at the end of ...

While OC Department of Education Superintendent Al Mijares announced plans to return a few weeks ago, he now plans to retire ...

Mijares still serves the department in an advisory capacity, involving himself in decisions affecting the department.

Orange County Superintendent Al Mijares hasn’t been to a public school board meeting in more than a year because of medical issues, Voice of OC reported. People have been starting to question why ...

It’s been over a year since the Superintendent of Public Instruction Al Mijares abruptly stopped showing up to work. He has ...

In most cases the decision was made in conjunction with the county public health offices. Al Mijares, superintendent of schools for Orange County, said, “We got a ton of calls from parents wanting ...

Al Mijares was appointed as Orange County’s superintendent in 2012 and was easily elected to a full term in 2014 and re-elected in 2018. In 2020, however, Mijares clashed publicly with the ...

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Al Roker and his company were accused in a lawsuit filed Tuesday of failing to follow a diversity, equity and inclusion mandate. Former executive producer Bill Schultz is suing the "Today" show ...

Located at the junction of the Mobile River and Mobile Bay on the northern Gulf of Mexico, the city is the only seaport in Alabama. The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic ...

Dothan serves as the main transportation and commercial hub for a significant part of southeastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and nearby portions of the Florida Panhandle. Since approximately one ...