Some additional information has surfaced about Interim Little Rock Superintendent Dexter Suggs' plans to reorganize the Rockefeller and Baseline elementary schools.
The Rockefeller PTA has issued a statement critical of the state's move to reorganize Rockefeller and Baseline elementary schools without talking to parents and staff of the schools before news leaked in the newspaper.
Cathy Koehler, president of the Little Rock Education Association, tells me she's been informed by a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of major changes to be announced at two Little Rock School District schools.
Efforts to find out if the state Education Department has a plan for the Little Rock School District turns up little evidence of one, except a PowerPoint that says Dexter Suggs will now be in charge of the distressed schools. What was he doing before?
More details emerge about a dispute between the Little Rock school administration and a group of teachers. It's more indication that leaving Dexter Suggs in charge of a district in state receivership — with no school board oversight — could prove problematic.
Dexter Suggs, serving as interim superintendent for Education Commissioner Johnny Key in the state-run Little Rock School District, hasn't done much about improving education in the district since it was taken over but he's been busy on other matters.
More than two months after the state takeover of the Little Rock School District, the people in positions of direct responsiblity for the district's poor performance still have their jobs and there are no plans afoot yet to change that. This is accountability?
On Monday, Little Rock School District Superintendent Dexter Suggs and the Budget Efficiency Advisory Committee met to continue discussing plans for major cuts to the district's budget in advance of a loss of state desegregation funding.
I got a belated response this morning to my Freedom of Information Act request for the jobs that Interim Little Rock School Superintendent Dexter Suggs proposes to cut as part of budget reductions.
Interim Little Rock School Superintendent Dexter Suggs and Baker Kurrus, the former Little Rock School Board member named by Education Commissioner Tony Wood to work on district finances announced today a committee to assist in the work.