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University of Arkansas annnounces $10 million Walton grant for training teachers in high-poverty schools

The University of Arkansas issued a news release this morning confirming a project I mentioned yesterday morning — a Walton Family Foundation grant to work with teachers in high-poverty schools.
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The Walton money at work in school board races and in teacher training for Little Rock

The Walton money at work: In Oakland school board races; community organizing in San Francisco, and a new teacher training program that apparently targets Little Rock.
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The discipline gap

Research shows Arkansas schools punish African-American students more frequently and more harshly than their white peers.

Walton U. does its duty in LR school mess

Surprise. Employees of a Walton-backed pro-charter-school unit at the University of Arkansas have come to the defense of the firing of Baker Kurrus as Little Rock school superintendent after he had unflattering things to say about charter schools financially supported by the Walton Family Foundation.
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The line is open

Flail away. Final words: * REFORM SCHOOL: The great Common Core debate ground on for a second day today at the Capitol, with more speakers this time around from the pro-side of the coin.

Ravitch: Does Arkansas want two school systems?

Diane Ravitch tells KUAF's Ozarks at Large reporter Jacqueline Froelich that Arkansas's experience with segregation should be a lesson in what's wrong with having two school systems — public schools, which must educate all comers, and public charter schools.
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Education by the numbers

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette opened the new year with three Sunday newspaper pages devoted to a ranking of every school in Arkansas, more than 1,000, by a two-digit number based on the Iowa Test taken by more than 350,000 Arkansas students.

D-G publisher and Walton influence in charter reporting

More today from the Little Rock School District FOI request related to the University of Arkansas studies intended to show that open enrollment charter schools don't impact segregation in the public school districts in Pulaski County.
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UA fudges charter school report

This one's for the public school/charter school wonks, but it's also an enlightening piece of information dug up by Little Rock School District lawyer Chris Heller on how the Walton-financed education "reformers" up at the University of Arkansas fudged the numbers in attempting to show the Little Rock School District isn't impacted by the state's unlimited approval of open enrollment charter schools in Pulaski County.
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