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Arkansas Online
February 17, 2018
Both deals require Key's approval because he serves as the School Board in the state-controlled Little Rock district, which currently does not have an elected ... Just in Pulaski County, the Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District is building a new elementary and high school; the Pulaski County SpecialÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
February 16, 2018
The North Little Rock School Board met in a private session Thursday to evaluate Superintendent Kelly Rodgers' work, then returned to a public forum ... A Pulaski County native, Rodgers had been a superintendent for a total of 10 years in two Texas school districts before taking the North Little Rock job.
KARK
February 15, 2018
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- The Pulaski County Special School District may have to soon cut its budget. Dr. Linda Remele, PCSSD's School board president, says there is a shortfall of just under $8-million. The financial report was presented at a school board meeting Tuesday night. Dr. Remele says there areÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
February 14, 2018
Without new revenue or cuts in expenditures, Pulaski County Special School District leaders are looking at drawing as much as $7.6 million from $17.2 million in district reserves to meet expenses in the coming 2018-19 school year. The district's School Board received the financial report at a meetingÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
February 9, 2018
The School Board voted earlier this week to place the Dupree/Pinewood school and a new middle school on the site of the existing Jacksonville High in the early ... Jacksonville area residents sought to detach from the Pulaski County Special district largely for the purpose of improving the condition of oldÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
February 6, 2018
As a condition of the detachment, the Jacksonville/ North Pulaski district is obligated to show compliance with the Pulaski County Special district's ... education commissioner in 2015 but was persuaded by Jacksonville resident Daniel Gray, now president of the district's School Board, and others to apply forÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
January 23, 2018
The Pulaski County Special School District is asking the public to participate in online surveys to rate the district's services and help identify desirable characteristics in a superintendent. The district's School Board is in the early stages of seeking a superintendent for the 12,000-student system to replaceÃÂ ...
Arkansas Leader
January 17, 2018
Beebe, Cabot, Lonoke and Pulaski County schools, which also closed Tuesday, used an Alternative Methods of Instruction Day as students worked at home on inclement-weather assignments to be completed online or on paper within five days. The calendar will not be adjusted. The Cabot School BoardÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
January 7, 2018
The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District will meet Monday and Tuesday night this week. The board is holding a special meeting at 6 p.m. Monday to take the next steps in a search for a new superintendent for the 2018-19 school year. Earlier this school year, the board selected RayÃÂ ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
January 1, 2018
That comprises a 6.5 percent state tax, North Little Rock's 2 percent sales tax and a 1 percent Pulaski County tax. ... Mayor Joe Smith has his eyes on the North Little Rock School District Administration Building and the Arkansas National Guard's Fisher Armory -- on school district property -- as the site forÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
January 1, 2018
That comprises a 6.5 percent state tax, North Little Rock's 2 percent sales tax and a 1 percent Pulaski County tax. ... Mayor Joe Smith has his eyes on the North Little Rock School District Administration Building and the Arkansas National Guard's Fisher Armory -- on school district property -- as the site forÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
January 1, 2018
But Pulaski County always gives a Democrat an outside shot in the 2nd District. Tucker would be especially strong in Pulaski, hailing as he does from a long-prominent Little Rock family in which his grandfather was a moderate non-segregationist school board member in 1957 and his father is a leadingÃÂ ...
NWAOnline
December 30, 2017
But Pulaski County always gives a Democrat an outside shot in the 2nd District. Tucker would be especially strong in Pulaski, hailing as he does from a long-prominent Little Rock family in which his grandfather was a moderate non-segregationist school board member in 1957 and his father is a leadingÃÂ ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
December 15, 2017
Superintendent Mike Poore will make his preference known at a presentation tonight to the district's Community Advisory Committee -- it meets at 5:30 p.m. -- before sending a final recommendation to Arkansas Education Commissioner Johnny Key. Key acts as the school board for the district that has beenÃÂ ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
December 11, 2017
The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District, which claimed the exemption to the state's School Choice Act for this year and in the past, will decide at its meeting Tuesday whether to forgo the claim for 2018-19 as it initially planned. The two districts are among 15 that have exemptions toÃÂ ...
Arkansas Leader
December 6, 2017
She said it was a positive step forward for the community, which voted extend the current tax rate itself, with support from other Pulaski County School ... School board president Linda Remele, a Sherwood resident, said she was grateful to the patrons for “overwhelming approval” of the extension of theÃÂ ...
Arkansas Leader
December 6, 2017
School board president Daniel Gray said that people had been using the public comment period to attack someone. The board ... recommendation, the board declined one application for legal transfer from JNPSD to North Little Rock School District and one to the Pulaski County Special School District.
Quartz
September 25, 2017
County School Board of New Kent County in 1968). Little Rock and North Little Rock weren't ruled unitary until 2014; Pulaski County special school district is still under supervision. The 2014 settlement ruled that the state of Arkansas would continue to pay $65.8 million a year through 2018 in continuedÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
July 18, 2017
The school board for the Pulaski County Special School District terminated its superintendent and dismissed the Allen P. Roberts law firm as its legal representative Tuesday evening. The vote comes one day after the superintendent, Jerry Guess, said that he “and my lawyers of choice” have “lost theÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
July 18, 2017
The motion in court proposed a 60-day period to hurry a removal of Pulaski County from desegregation oversight. The motion mentioned this could put in play a state Board of Education interest in altering boundaries of the Pulaski district, a flash point particularly because state Rep. John Walker, civil rightsÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
July 18, 2017
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Cynthia Howell got the scoop on what appears to be coming upheaval in the Pulaski County School District along with the likely ... Howell obtained Guess' response to Pulaski County School Board unhappiness since announcement last Friday for the potential of a speedyÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
July 14, 2017
Late last night came a filing in federal court that says the state of Arkansas, the Little Rock and Pulaski County school districts and the so-called Joshua ... It is supported by Education Commissioner Johnny Key, acting as the Little Rock School Board during the state trusteeship that began two years ago.
Arkansas Times (blog)
June 14, 2017
HAPPY: Pulaski School Superintndent Jerry Guess (glasses) joins school board members in celebrating special election tax vote. In case you missed it, I updated yesterday's item on special elections in the Pulaski County School District and Pine Bluff last night with news that voters in both places had givenÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
May 10, 2017
It's another bond refinance proposal, an extension of Pulaski County Special School District debt obligations by 13 years to allow borrowing $65 ... The Pulaski district recently returned to local control — with a locally elected school board — after years in state receivership to correct financial problems.
Arkansas Online
December 31, 1999
The Pulaski County School District will hold four community forums Monday and Tuesday to ask the public what they would like from a new ... the public and Arkansas Education Commissioner Johnny Key, who acts in place of an elected school board in the state-controlled Little Rock school system.
Arkansas Leader
December 31, 1999
Little Rock Air Force Base is always in the Top 10, and usually for its huge economic impact on central Arkansas. ... lucrative system, a single check for $15 returned for insufficient funds can be leveraged into many thousands of dollars in court costs, fines and fees owed to Sherwood and Pulaski County.”.
Arkansas Online
December 31, 1999
The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District on Tuesday consented to some change orders and reconfigured construction plans for the new Robinson Middle and Mills High schools that are to open in August. The change orders at Mills total $1 million and include the addition of a turningÃÂ ...
Arkansas Leader
December 31, 1999
Halfway through his first year as superintendent of the Jacksonville-North Pulaski School District, the smile is still on Bryan Duffie's face—not like a kid in the candy shop, but like a man well pleased with the life he's chosen and the job he's been chosen for. Duffie was hired as assistant superintendent inÃÂ ...
Arkansas Leader
December 7, 2017
She said it was a positive step forward for the community, which voted extend the current tax rate itself, with support from other Pulaski County School ... School board president Linda Remele, a Sherwood resident, said she was grateful to the patrons for “overwhelming approval” of the extension of the ...
Arkansas Leader
December 7, 2017
School board president Daniel Gray said that people had been using the public comment period to attack someone. The board ... recommendation, the board declined one application for legal transfer from JNPSD to North Little Rock School District and one to the Pulaski County Special School District.
Arkansas Online
November 25, 2017
Both Pulaski County Special and Helena-West Helena districts in 2016 exited five years of state control for fiscal distress. Arkansas Education Commissioner Johnny Key used his legal authority at that time to schedule November 2016 school board elections for those districts -- rather than traditional ...
Arkansas Online
November 21, 2017
An attorney for the Pulaski County Special School District said Monday that neither a federal court hearing nor an independent facilities expert is .... The School Board voted last week to add $1.29 million to its Baldwin & Shell $37.7 million construction contract for an athletic plaza, football stadium ticket ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
November 15, 2017
A veteran with financial expertise was chosen for a vacant North Little Rock School Board slot Tuesday at the urging of two Pulaski County Quorum Court ... North Little Rock district leaders were assured by the Arkansas School Boards Association that an out-of-zone appointee could legally serve on a ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
November 9, 2017
... Boys Club charter/voucher school agenda retook a Colorado school board. ... Pulaski County doesn't approach vote-rich northern Virginia as a ... In Arkansas, Trump enjoys a 47-40 favorable rating while he is deeply ...
Arkansas Online
November 8, 2017
Arkansas Education Commissioner Johnny Key on Monday exercised ... returned to local school board control -- Pulaski County Special and ...
Arkansas Online
October 30, 2017
Fair, built by the Pulaski County Special School District and acquired by the Little Rock ... Ava Coleman is the newest member of the School Board for the ... College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where her ... LPN: GREYSTONE NURSING & REHAB, LLC,: 10.30.17Cabot, AR.
Arkansas Online
October 28, 2017
The North Little Rock School Board voted Friday to rescind the Oct. 12 ... now leave it to the Pulaski County Quorum Court to fill the vacant Zone 5 seat. ... her frustration that the Arkansas School Boards Association did not .... PLANT OPERATOR: JEFFREY SAND COMPANY: 10.19.17North Little Rock, AR.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
October 25, 2017
Contractors work on the new Mills High School on Tuesday. Pulaski County Special School District officials have offered assurances that ...
University of Arkansas Newswire
October 23, 2017
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – James L. “Skip” Rutherford III, adviser to a senator and president, dean of the Clinton School of Public Service and an ...
Arkansas Online
October 10, 2017
Sam Jones, the Pulaski County Special district's lead counsel in the ... 6 p.m. meeting of the School Board for the Pulaski Special district.
Arkansas Online
October 7, 2017
The Pulaski County Special School District anticipates state and local revenue of nearly ... Middle and High schools, which are on Arkansas 10 in west Pulaski County. ... The district's School Board in July dismissed then-Superintendent Jerry Guess ... Senior Director: WAL-MART: 09.30.17Bentonville, AR.
Arkansas Online
October 6, 2017
The Pulaski County Special School District anticipates state and local revenue ... Middle and High schools, which are on Arkansas 10 in west Pulaski County. ... The district's School Board in July dismissed then-Superintendent Jerry Guess and the Allen Roberts law firm legal team. ... 10.07.17Pine Bluff, AR.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
October 3, 2017
Arkansas Education Commissioner Johnny Key, who acts as the school board for the state-controlled Little Rock district, was among the ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
September 27, 2017
State Education Commissioner Johnny Key said today that he'd predict an election for a Little Rock school board sometime in 2018. Depending ...
The Heartland Institute
September 26, 2017
A group of Arkansas parents is demanding to know when the state will ... the Arkansas Board of Education assumed control of the Pulaski County ... if they have a school board they'll have more control and more money will go ...
Quartz
September 25, 2017
25, 1957, nine African-American students in Little Rock, Arkansas were escorted by ... (AP/File) African American Integration Anti-School Ar ... other two districts in Pulaski County, North Little Rock school district and Pulaski County special school district. ... County School Board of New Kent County in 1968).
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
September 24, 2017
Carlotta Walls LaNier of Denver, appearing Saturday at the Clinton Presidential Center with fellow Little Rock Nine member Melba Pattillo ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
September 22, 2017
The Arkansas Board of Education controls the Little Rock School District, after it ousted the elected School Board nearly three years ago in a ...
Arkansas Online
September 22, 2017
Question: Why hold school board elections on Election Day--that is, ... made the decision. Which brings us to Pulaski County, the state's largest.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
September 15, 2017
The Grassroots Arkansas events -- including one that will conflict with a city-sponsored concert by Mavis Staples benefiting the Little Rock Nine ...
