Cynthia Howell
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District piles up fiscal distress
posted: 02/07/2012 4:54 a.m. Comments 2
The Arkansas Department of Education is recommending that the Pulaski County Special School District be classified as fiscally distressed because of a $5.5 million drop in the district’s financial reserves between the beginning and end of the 2010-11 school year.
Building plans at stake in NLR school-tax vote
posted: 02/05/2012 4:29 a.m. Comment 1
A proposed 7.4-mill property-tax increase going before North Little Rock School District voters starting this week would help finance one of the largest and most comprehensive school construction plans in state history.
Game gets kids to financial goal
posted: 02/03/2012 4:20 a.m.
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Central Arkansas high school students played football in a state Capitol committee room Thursday with a National Football League starting quarterback — Christian Ponder of the Minnesota Vikings — coaching one of the teams.
Education notebook
posted: 01/29/2012 3:35 a.m. Discuss
Reimbursements sought in lawsuit The Little Rock School District and black students known as the Joshua intervenors are seeking reimbursement for legal fees and costs in their successful challenge last year of a court order that would have ended most state desegregation aid to the three Pulaski County school districts.
LR School Board continues study of election-zone maps
posted: 01/27/2012 5:44 a.m. Discuss
Little Rock School Board members are continuing to study census tracts and options for redrawing election-zone boundaries to equalize the populations in the district’s seven School Board zones before the annual school election in September.
Proposed school-tax increase good for all NLR, boosters say
posted: 01/25/2012 5:23 a.m. Discuss
A proposed 7.4-mill property-tax increase to help finance $265.5 million in school construction and renovation in the North Little Rock School District will provide better resources for students to learn and also benefit the city’s economy, proponents said Tuesday.
Ratings system grades schools
posted: 01/22/2012 5:21 a.m. Discuss
A system in which Arkansas’ public schools are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 on the basis of overall student achievement is now in place, and the ratings are posted for parents to check as they make plans for registering their children for the 2012-13 school year.
Education notebook
posted: 01/22/2012 5:06 a.m. Discuss
El Dorado Promise reports its impact In the five years since officials started the El Dorado Promise college scholarship program, the number of scholarship recipients has totaled 997, and 90 percent of the scholarship-eligible students in the city’s class of 2011 enrolled in college this past fall.
Auditors again cite district for bank lags
posted: 01/20/2012 2:59 a.m. Discuss
Auditors cited the North Little Rock School District for failing for the fourth consecutive year to reconcile school district accounts and bank statements in a timely manner.
Education notebook
posted: 01/15/2012 4:25 a.m. Discuss
Firm to help state seek law leeway The Arkansas Department of Education has contracted with EducationCounsel of Washington, D.C., for help in crafting a proposal to the U.S. Department of Education for flexibility in complying with the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
