Scott Smith, who’s been a lawyer at the state Education Department, will head the new Walton-funded public school agitprop agency at the University of Central Arkansas. (It joins a similar propaganda agency at Walton U. in Fayetteville.)

I know. Picking on those nice Waltons again. But really. When your salary is paid by the Waltons, is there any meaningful chance you’ll research and report on issues that run counter to your benefactors’ ideology on public education?

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