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The 'new' LRSD; you'll take what we say and you'll like it

Some additional information has surfaced about Interim Little Rock Superintendent Dexter Suggs' plans to reorganize the Rockefeller and Baseline elementary schools.
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Rockefeller PTA objects to way school reorganization being handled

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.
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LREA president: State set to move on two LR schools; parents and staff to learn through 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.

Something's up in Little Rock School District, but what?

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?
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More on LRSD's selective teacher inquiry

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.

More disputation in the Little Rock School District

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.
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State's curious idea of accountability in Little Rock schools

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?

LRSD budget committee discusses health insurance cuts, changes to school day

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.
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Little Rock School District releases positions targeted for elimination

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.

Axe falling on Little Rock School District jobs

Word is filtering in of dismissal notices being sent to Little Rock School District administrators.
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Committee named to work on Little Rock school finances

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.

What's next for the LRSD?

No plan yet.
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