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League of Women Voters poses questions on Little Rock school takeover

The League of Women Voters of Pulaski County released a letter today to Arkansas Education Commissioner Tony Wood with questions about future state control of the Little Rock School District.
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The Little Rock School District takeover: Is transparency in peril?

It took three years to pierce secrecy about a privately funded effort to reshape the Philadelphia schools. The same consultant that led Philadelphia planning is now at work in Little Rock. Will they be as resistant to disclosure here?
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Criticism continues of state takeover of Little Rock schools

Criticism continues of the state decision to take over the school district, particularly keeping the man who led the failed district in charge.

Walton Foundation sets meeting in Little Rock schools

The Walton Family Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, with a consulting group known for recommending school privatization, are already arranging meetings in the former democratically governed Little Rock School District. They remain public schools — nominally — but information so far has been hard to come by about this new initiative.
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Education group seeks survey participation

Forward Arkansas — a cooperative effort by the Winthrop Rockefeller and Walton Family Foundations and the Arkansas Board of Education is seeking participants in a survey on Arkansas education.

State Board of Education partners with Rockefeller, Walton foundations to target distressed schools

The state Board of Education today approved a partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation and Walton Family Foundation aimed at developing a plan to strengthen education by targeting academically distressed schools and districts.
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Arkansas's immigrant future

Arkansas is an outlier in the big immigration debate, the assumption being that Republicans have it about right: White Arkansans hate the influx of immigrants, particularly Latinos, over the past 20 years and are in no mood to have life made any better for them.

WR Foundation: Immigrants a net plus for Arkansas

I didn't need any convincing. But I nonetheless welcome the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation's latest report on immigration in Arkansas.
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Education groups offer fiery criticism of Supreme Court ruling

Before gathering in Little Rock this afternoon for a two-day summit on improving education, educational organizations released a statement condemning the Arkansas Supreme Court's ruling in Kimbrell v. McClesky, which throws equitable education in Arkansas into doubt.

What Winthrop Rockefeller left behind

And what he didn't.
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Is Arkansas really primed for reform?

Commissioned by the Arkansas Public Policy Panel and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, "Ripe for Reform: Arkansas as a Model for Social Change" argues that, despite creeping hyper-partisanship, Arkansas's modern history is filled with more progressive achievement than its Southern neighbors. And that it's progress that can be built upon

Rockefeller backs immigrant group

It's a small step, but you know what they say about tiny acorns, to mix a somewhat relevant metaphor.
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