The 2013-2014 budget is $ 305 million . Economic difficulties confronted the Board beginning in 2008 when local and state tax revenue tanked and were exacerbated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill . Citizens voted twice to approve an emergency one percent sales tax that has kept the system running . Among the innovations is the Digital Renaissance , an initiative that has put Mac Book laptops in the hands of more than 10,000 high school students and 700 high school teachers . Despite tight budgets the school voted to include $ 2.8 million in the 2014 budget to expand the program to grades 4 - 6
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Baldwin County Board of Education