The Little Rock Area Public Education Stakeholder Group will meet at 5 p.m. Monday at the Arkansas Department of Education, 4 Capitol Mall, in Little Rock.
Agenda items include presentations by leaders of the open-enrollment charter schools that operate in Pulaski County south of the Arkansas River. Another presentation will center on Little Rock's Master Plan for Children, Youth and Families.
The group's meetings are public.
The stakeholder group was created when the state Board of Education voted in April to hire a "research facilitator" to make nonbinding recommendations on how the board might better manage decision-making and communications in regard to traditional public schools and independently operated, publicly funded charter schools.
The Education Board directed that the stakeholder group -- made up of representatives of different facets of public education in Pulaski County south of the Arkansas River -- be formed to set the parameters for the researchers' work.
Live video streaming of the meeting will be available at: arkansased.gov/state-board/watch-meeting-live.
The meeting also will be recorded and posted to the State Board Archive link on the Education Department's website: arkansased.gov/state-board/minutes.
The stakeholder group members are Tommy Branch, a former Little Rock School Board member who is the committee's chairman; Tamika Edwards; Ann Brown Marshall; Jim McKenzie; Antwan Phillips; Leticia Reta; and Dianna Varady.
Metro on 07/24/2016