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'Helena-West Helena'

KIPP: Delta receives $500,000 from Walton Foundation for public-charter partnership

The "KIPP Through College” program places college counselors in Helena-West Helena's Central High School (which is just down the road from KIPP's campus in Phillips County) as well as Marianna High School in nearby Lee County.
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Cooking the books at an Indiana charter schools

Hmmmmm. Not that this could happen anywhere else, but, an AP exclusive from the New York Times: ... when it appeared an Indianapolis charter school run by a prominent Republican donor might receive a poor grade, [former Indiana School Superintendent Tony] Bennett's education team frantically overhauled his signature "A-F" school grading system to improve the school's marks.
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There's Arkansas — and then there's the Delta

I'm not going to try to boil these down other than to say that politics in Helena-West Helena and Crittenden County do beat all.

Surprises when schools ranked by test scores AND poverty

I wrote yesterday about what I thought was inordinate attention given by both the University of Arkansas school reformers and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette to a statewide ranking of every school in Arkansas according to its composite score on the Iowa Test, a national standardized test.
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Radio station wants to drop Pine Bluff football over lewd dancers

Helena-West Helena blogger Andrew Blogger turns up another story of cultural interest: A radio station owner whose stations broadcast games in Helena and Pine Bluff is threatening to stop broadcasting Pine Bluff Zebra games because of the sexually suggestive nature of dance team/band performances.

Job expansions announced in Helena

A variety of businesses are announcing news or expanded operations in Helena-West Helena, which can use the shot in the arm.
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It's the open line

Mark Pryor has a job plan. Jobs for Helena-West Helena are coming. Republicans don't care about jobs, but they do care about abortion.

Operation Delta Blues continues

I've been picking up a scrap or two of continuing buzz about Operation Delta Blues, the massive federal operation that produced 70 drug and police corruption indictments yesterday.
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Helena school blues

If it's not a city government squabble occupying time and energy in Helena-West Helena, it's a school debate.

'Monkeys don't eat tamales'

Helena-West Helena Alderman Joe St. Columbia apparently had to shut down his Pasquale's tamale stand Saturday because of a demonstration about e-mail he's forwarded that many have characterized as racist.
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Helena councilman does it again

I tried to ignore it when Helena-West Helena Council member Joe St. Columbia seemed to refer to black city officials as monkeys running the zoo.

Helena blues festival

The culture of incestuous politics and feuding that has been a perpetual blight on Helena-West Helena continues apace.
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