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Posts tagged
'Bruce Cozart'

Lawmakers consider delivering blow to school funding

While all eyes are turned to election drama, potentially troubling developments are afoot at the state Capitol regarding public school funding.
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A panic button for teachers

New phone app promises greater school safety, with a sizable price tag.
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Should Arkansas students be required to take a citizenship test? Should legislators?

On Thursday, the House Education Committee narrowly failed to pass SB 878, a bill by Sen. Jason Rapert that would require high school students to pass a citizenship test from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services as a prerequisite to receiving a diploma.

Who'll run public schools?

Will the Walton billions take over the Little Rock School District?
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School privatization bill pulled for this session

Jim Ross, a former Little Rock School Board member active in the fight just told me that Rep. Bruce Cozart had pulled House Bill 1733 to allow privatization of, among others, the Little Rock School District.

Beware talk of charter school 'miracles' say New Orleans and Chicago school activists

School activists from New Orleans and Chicago have written an article to warn Arkansas legislators and the public about claims of miraculous education results in those cities because of a mass movement to charter schools. They say schools have been closed, true "choice" has been illusory and results have been dismal.
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The Vile, Socialist, Anti-Christian, Propaganda Edition

The Justin Harris scandal, Tom Cotton in the spotlight, a bill that would allow private charter school operators to take over schools in academic distress, highlights and lowlights from the General Assembly’s bill filing deadline and the persistence of Judge Wendell Griffen — all covered on this week's podcast.

Bill to strip qualifications for education commissioner clears House committee

Over objections from some members, the House Education Committee today approved SB 681 to eliminate the requirement that the education commissioner have a teacher's certificate, a master's degree and 10 years of teaching and administrative experience.
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The education legislature

Republican political control in Arkansas means many things: lots of gun bills, lots of anti-abortion bills, lots of efforts to make religious belief law, such as discrimination against gay people.

Bill allows outside nonprofit to operate school district taken over by state

Legislation filed Friday by Rep. Bruce Cozart, a Republican who chairs the House Education Committee, would expand the state's sweeping powers to operate a school or school district in state receivership for academic reasons, including allowing the state to contract with an outside nonprofit to operate the district.
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House committee approves roll-back of school consolidation law

The House Education Committee approved legislation today to blow a gaping hole in the hard-won standard to consolidate school districts with fewer than 350 students in the name of efficiency.

No solution in sight for public school employee insurance crisis

To avoid a calamitous rise in insurance rates for public school employees (PSEs) at the end of 2014, the legislature will need to convene in special session this summer. Gov. Beebe won’t call a session until legislative leaders are confident that the votes are present to pass whatever fix is proposed. Today, the task force created to study the PSE insurance problem met jointly with the full Ed committee to review draft legislation proposed by Sen. Jim Hendren (R), the task force chair.
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