Brenda Bernet
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Walton unit gives $8 million to group
posted: 05/03/2013 4:43 a.m. Discuss
The Walton Family Foundation announced that it will give $8 million over two years to a national organization that gave Arkansas a D grade on its state education policies.
Some schools rethink class ranking by GPA
posted: 04/29/2013 4:12 a.m. Comment 1
When seniors across Northwest Arkansas don caps and gowns for graduation ceremonies next month, many graduates receiving special recognition will wear special stoles, cords and tassels during their commencement ceremonies.
Resurrected Passion Play ready to start 46th season
posted: 04/27/2013 4:51 a.m. Discuss
Officials for The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs are expecting the largest opening-weekend crowd in at least 10 years next week.
State awards $130 million to 92 districts
posted: 04/25/2013 5:03 a.m. Comments 3
Ninety-two Arkansas school districts, including the North Little Rock district in central Arkansas and the Bentonville district in Northwest Arkansas, will share in at least $130.7 million in state aid in 2013-14 for school-construction projects.
4th district adds whites and area
posted: 04/22/2013 3:25 a.m. Discuss
Arkansas’s 4th Congressional District was the only district in the state to lose black residents as a result of redistricting in 2011, according to U.S. census figures, released earlier this month, that detail demographics within the districts.
5 startup charter schools divide up $483,000
posted: 04/20/2013 4:43 a.m. Discuss
The Arkansas Department of Education has awarded federal grants of $483,000 to five charter schools opening in August.
Berryville teachers join writing project
posted: 04/02/2013 4:44 a.m. Discuss
Berryville teachers are joining a national project focused on training teachers in rural schools on the best strategies to teach writing.
Out-of-state workers’ commutes require drive
posted: 03/31/2013 3:59 a.m. Discuss
Mike Swart lives in St. Louis on the weekends, but drives five hours to Bentonville for work every week, typically spending Tuesday through Friday in Benton County.
Hundreds celebrate day Army sheared Elvis
posted: 03/24/2013 3:30 a.m. Discuss
FORT SMITH — Carroll Newman sat in a chair in the barbershop at Fort Chaffee for his first military buzz cut in February 1958, a short time before Elvis Presley did the same.
State’s residents shifting to cities
posted: 03/17/2013 3:30 a.m. Discuss
New population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show that nearly two-thirds of the state’s counties lost residents between 2011 and 2012.
