The Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) is taking public comment on a draft of the 2025 "Alabama Course of Study: Digital Literacy and Computer Science" until 5 p.m. on November 27. The issue will then be presented to the Alabama State Board of Education at its December 2025 meeting.

The Course of Study updates the 2018 Course of Study for digital literacy and computer science programs from Kindergarten through Grade 12 in Alabama’s public schools.

The state has prioritized the subject beginning with the Computer Science for Alabama Act (Act 2019-389), which required all K-12 public schools to offer computer science courses or include computer science instruction in their curriculum by the 2022-2023 school year.

By the 2023-2024 school year, 94% of Alabama high schools had

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