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Charter school’s Blytheville add-on wins OK

State board rejects three other plans, defers vote on LR

By Cynthia Howell

Scott Shirley, executive director of the Knowledge is Power Program Delta Public Schools, hugs student Jameshia Banks after she and Domonique Bragg (left) and other students of the program’s school in Helena-West Helena spoke before the Arkansas Board of Education on Monday in support of a new charter school in Blytheville. The board approved the school.

Photo by Karen E. Segrave

Scott Shirley, executive director of the Knowledge is Power Program Delta Public Schools, hugs student Jameshia Banks after she and Domonique Bragg (left) and other students of the program’s school in Helena-West Helena spoke before the Arkansas Board of Education on Monday in support of a new charter school in Blytheville. The board approved the school.

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The Arkansas Board of Education on Monday unanimously approved plans for expanding the existing KIPP charter school system into Blytheville.

During a seven-hour meeting that stretched into the evening, the board rejected charter schools for Fayetteville, Springdale and West Memphis, saying the schools weren’t unique enough.

Board members deferred action until December on a Little Rock charter school to resolve concerns about the effect another charter school could have on the Pulaski County school desegregation case.

When the board reconvenes at 9 a.m. today, it will consider applications for other charter schools in Little Rock, Gillett and McNeil.

The Knowledge Is Power Program Blytheville College Preparatory School will be the first expansion of the KIPP school system in ...

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This article was published November 10, 2009 at 4:06 a.m.

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