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'school choice'

School distress fight includes collateral attack on school choice law

The state Board of Education today is considering an appeal of a finding that the majority-black Mineral Springs High School is in academic distress, a designation that could eventually end in the district's takeover.
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Education Board member reacts to federal court transfer ruling

Diane Zook, the state Education Board member who spearheaded action that led to Judge Price Marshall's ruling yesterday that the state couldn't ignore the Pulaski school desegregation case in deciding school transfers, says she'll abide by that ruling on future transfers, at least in that district.
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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.

Will state be back in court for aiding segregation?

The question lingers from Thursday's state Board of Education meeting at which the Board ignored federal court desegregation orders and allowed students to transfer out of Jacksonville and El Dorado school districts over objections of the districts.
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State Board of Education ignores court orders, approves school transfers; charter school train rolls on

The Asa Hutchinson-controlled state Board of Education demonstrated its preference for school choice, even when federal court orders might be in conflict.

The war on Little Rock schools

Superintendent Baker Kurrus is the latest casualty in the Walton-directed assault on the LRSD.
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Key still not taking questions on sacking of Kurrus, issues news release

Johnny Key hides behind a news release to announce his firing of Baker Kurrus as Little Rock School superintendent to replace him with his successor from Bentonville, not coincidentally home of the Walton fortune now driving public education in Arkansas.

The end of public education as we knew it in Arkansas

The big hearing on charter schools last night turned out as expected. The bigger theme is that charter school regulation is a sham and Arkansas is on the road to disestablishment of the old system of public education.
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State Board of Education flouts law on school transfer

The state Board of Education indicated yesterday that it has little respect for state law on school transfers. It will decide case by case whether to obey the law or not.

An open line and news headlines. Also: School choice; HP job cuts

Here's the open line, some news and comment via video and a note about school choice and desegregation and another big round of job cuts by Hewlett Packard, whose farflung operations include an installation in Conway.
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Parents again lose Blytheville school transfer lawsuit

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a lower court ruling that the Blytheville School District had not acted improperly in refusing white parents request to transfer out of the majority black school district under a 2013 school transfer law that allowed districts under desegregation rulings to opt out of the law.

Education commissioner set to do town hall for LR takeover lobbyist

Education Commissioner Johnny Key schedules a "telephone town hall" appearance for a lobbyist for the Walton "school reform" agenda. Might he favor Little Rock School District residents with simlar time?
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