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'Quest charter school'

Quest charter school relocation was in works when state Board approved different site

Public hearings and a state agency hearing are scheduled for a proposed change of the recently approved Quest charter middle school from a location on Rahling Road in Chenal Valley to a location several miles east off Financial Center Parkway near I-430. The school operator, Responsive Education Solutions, has provided documents under an Arkansas Times Freedom of Information Act request that shows the alternate site was under study before the state Board of Education approved the school application at the Rahling Road site. Location of the school was an aspect of the board's debate.
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Quest charter school changes locations; question remains on enrollment policy

The Quest charter school in western Little Rock has moved to a new site, close by a Little Rock middle school. An absence of neighborhood alternatives was one argument presented for approval of the school. Other questions linger about the startup, including whether some parents will enjoy a preference in what has been described as an "open enrollment" school.
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Texas charter school operator pulls biology workbook after complaint of unconstitutional instruction

David Goins at Arkansas Matters reports that Responsive Education Solutions, a Texas-based operator of charter schools, has pulled a biology workbook from at least one school it operates in Arkansas because of a complaint that it unconstitutionally teaches religion (creationism) as science.

Separate and unequal schools: The trend continues

Several sent me a link to a report on an effort by a wealthier portion of Baton Rouge, La., to seek to separate itself from the larger local school district — and from the poorer, blacker students.
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Beebe adds charter school facility money to fiscal session

Gov. Mike Beebe has written legislative leaders to inform that he wants to spend $10 million in unobligated state money to create a construction loan fund for charter schools.

Charter school leader defends creationism in schools' curriculum

The subject has come up on previous threads, but more prominent attention is due a response issued by Texas-based charter school operator Responsive Education Solutions to a powerful piece of investigative
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Arkansas charter school operator teaching creationism in Texas

It's probably not worth getting too upset about news that a national charter school operator that is expanding in Arkansas is teaching creationism, as opposed to science, in biology courses.

A charter-public school partnership suggestion for new Quest school in WLR

A proposal to insure diversity and a true education laboratory at Little Rock's new Quest charter school.
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State Board of Education approves Quest charter school for West Little Rock

The state Board of Education today approved the proposed Quester charter middle and high school for western Little Rock.

The resegregation of American schools; some Little Rock examples

The state Board of Education meets Friday and the agenda includes a couple of issues that bear on nothing less than further erosion of Brown v. Board of education and the end of the public education system as we once knew it.
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State Board of Education removes distress labels, votes further review of WLR charter school

The state Board of Education voted without discussion this morning to remove Alpena, Brinkley, Hartford and Hermitage school districts from fiscal distress.
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