District makes deal to trademark logo
The Titans logo for schools in the new Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District will be trademarked.
The School Board has authorized Superintendent Tony Wood to enter into a three-year contract with Amateur Sports Licensing of Little Rock to trademark the insignia, license businesses to use the symbols and collect royalties on products that bear the symbols.
Businesses that want to sell Titan and Jacksonville/North Pulaski-labeled products will have to apply, qualify and pay for a $250, three-year license, as well as pay a 15 percent royalty on each item that is sold. The district and agency will split the proceeds evenly. The agency will collect fees monthly and pay the district quarterly.
The district is the seventh to contract with Amateur Sports Licensing, said Jim Wyatt, director of licensing and legal for the company. Other clients are the North Little Rock, Benton, Bryant, Pine Bluff, Rogers and Bentonville school districts.
The new Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District projects it will serve about 4,000 students when classes begin Aug. 15.
Principals named at 2 schools in LR
Michael Anthony is the new principal at the Little Rock School District's J.A. Fair High School, and Suzanne Proctor is taking over as principal at the district's Romine Elementary.
Anthony has been an Arkansas educator since 1996 and a Little Rock district employee since 2010, which is when he became an assistant principal at Hall High. That was followed by two years as an assistant principal at Cloverdale Middle School. This past year, he worked as a school improvement specialist at Cloverdale.
The earlier stages of his career were spent in Jefferson County-area school districts, including four years, from 2006 to 2010, as principal at Dollarway High; three years, from 2003 to 2006, as principal of Altheimer-Sherrill High; and four years, from 1998 to 2002, as a social studies teacher at Pine Bluff High.
Anthony will be paid an annual base salary of $105,899. He replaces LaGail Biggs, who left to become principal at Jacksonville High. J.A. Fair is one of the five schools classified as academically distressed in the state-controlled Little Rock district.
Proctor has worked as an educator since 1991, starting in a parochial school and then working in the Pulaski County Special, Cabot and Little Rock school districts. Since 2011, she has been a special education teacher at Hall High. Before that, she was principal at Northside Elementary in Cabot.
She will earn a base annual salary of $90,366.
Also in new positions for the coming 2016-17 school year are Karen Heatherly, who will be assistant principal at the Little Rock district's Pinnacle View Middle School, and Keitha Savage, who will be the coordinator at the new Geyer Springs Early Childhood Education Center.
2 hired as managers in education group
Cory Biggs and Harvell Howard are joining the management team at the public education improvement organization Forward Arkansas, Executive Director Susan Harriman has announced.
Forward Arkansas is a research, planning and advocacy organization that was established through a partnership of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Walton Family Foundation and Arkansas Board of Education. The organization's vision is to have every Arkansas student graduate from high school prepared for success in college and the workplace.
Biggs, who has been an attorney in the Arkansas Department of Education, will be the associate director and will assist in the development and implementation of Forward Arkansas' annual work plan. Biggs has a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, a master's degree from the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service and a law degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's W.H. Bowen School of Law.
Howard will be the organization's operations manager and, as such, will serve as a liaison among Forward Arkansas' managing partners, steering committee and implementation working groups. He will also be responsible for ensuring the initiative is responsive to the needs of communities.
Howard previously worked for UALR. He has a bachelor's degree from Hendrix College and a master's degree from the Clinton School of Public Service. He is pursuing a doctorate in leadership studies from the University of Central Arkansas.
Metro on 07/20/2016