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'desegregation'

So much for a school settlement in Pulaski County

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Cynthia Howell got the scoop on what appears to be coming upheaval in the Pulaski County School District along with the likely end of any chance of a speedy resolution of school desegregation issues in Pulaski County.
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StoryCorps animates an account of Sheridan's racial past

StoryCorps, the NPR oral history project, has now produced an animated version of Rev. James Seawood's account of the arrival of school desegregation in Sheridan, Ark. It's getting wide attention on Facebook.
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Federal judge denies Jacksonville student transfer, reversing State Board of Ed

U.S. District Judge Price Marshall has denied a request for a student transfer from the Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District to the school district in neighboring Cabot.

National attention to Waltons' takeover of Little Rock schools

Jeff Bryant, director of the Education Opportunity Network, writes in depth for AlterNet, the national progressive website, about the Little Rock School District in great detail — the desegregation struggle, the politics and the district's recent targeting for destruction by the heirs of a discount store fortune.
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Dale Bumpers stories: From Charleston to the seats of power

Oh the stories Dale Bumpers could tell. Ernest Dumas, who did an 11-hour interview with the late former governor and senator for a University of Arkansas oral history project, excerpts some of that interview here.

'Educational' football brings Missouri team to Pulaski Academy

A big feature in USA Today provides a little uplift in the story of a Missouri high school football team that came to Little Rock last week for a thrashing by Pulaski Academy but got some education in the process.
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UPDATE: Little Rock School District proposes to settle desegregation case

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel told a legislative committee today that the Little Rock School District had proposed a phase-out settlement of state financial support of the district under the long-running Pulaski desegregation case.

School choice law continues to make work for state Board of Education

The state Board of Education had a busy day Monday hearing a long list of appeals of denials of school district transfers under the 2013 "school choice" law.
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Integrated schools matter

Integration matters, just as plaintiffs proved conclusively in the underpinnings of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954.

State arguing both ways on school choice

Anybody else notice this paradox? A federal lawsuit arising in Malvern challenges the state's decision to deny transfers based on potential racial impact.
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State to pick up attorneys' fees

A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that the state must pay $69,972.66 to Little Rock School District lawyers and $149,417.50 to the lawyers for the Joshua Intervenors in appeals of lower court rulings in the long-running desegregation case.

Memories: The land of cotton

The New York Times writes further today about Haley Barbour's fond memories of the White Citizens Council, an organization well-remembered in Arkansas for Jim Johnson's membership and use of the specter of sexual race mixing as a potent political tool.
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