Opinion ID: 1885183
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Heading: December 3, 1993, Order Certified as Final on October 6, 1995

Text: The defendants submitted a proposed Remedy Plan, which the circuit court, subject to a fairness hearing, incorporated into an order it issued on October 22, 1993. Following a fairness hearing on November 18, 1993, the circuit court incorporated a modified Remedy Plan into an order it issued on December 3, 1993. A copy of the entire Remedy Order is found as an appendix to Chief Justice Hooper's dissent in Ex parte James, 713 So.2d 869, 923 (Ala.1997). By that order, the circuit court judge used legislative and executive powers to conform the Alabama school system with his vision for public-education reform. That order contained, in embryonic form, further orders the circuit court would be required to issue to accomplish that reform. Those orders would have ensured, among other things, that the Legislature appropriated sufficient moneys to fund the program, that teachers would be trained and paid in accordance with the trial court's specifications, and that students would be inculcated with the values the trial judge believed were important.