While serving as the superintendent of Lawrence County Schools, DeWayne Key (1948-2025) co-founded the Alabama Coalition for Equity, a nonprofit seeking to reduce funding disparities in K-12 schools through litigation, alongside former state senator and two-term chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Clement C. Torbert Jr.
DeWayne Key
Alabama Department of Archives and History. Donated by Alabama Media Group. Photo by Mark Almond, Birmingham News
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