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From Arkansas News this afternoon: “The publisher of a group of Central Arkansas newspapers filed a complaint today against the superintendent of the Pulaski County Special School District, alleging criminal violation of the state Freedom of Information Act. Dennis Byrd, chief of the Arkansas News Bureau and publisher of four Pulaski County newspapers, said he [...]

Must read: The Tim Clark/Michael Nellums case file, by Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times “Pulaski County School board member Tim Clark is trying to diminish his role in what a report by Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley said was a scheme to discredit fellow board member Gwen Williams. But the prosecutor’s file contradicts [...]

What are Dr. Hopson’s real intentions?  What is his connection to Glenn Singleton?  Dawn previously posted a letter from Singleton to Hopson, in which Singleton asked Hopson if he may be interested in writing and essay for his upcoming book.  Keep in mind that Hopson brought in PEG, even though the report Dawn posted alongside the letter clearly showed [...]

Just six months ago, the Pulaski County Special School District filed its Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law for the judge’s consideration in the desegregation case pending against it in federal court (Little Rock Sch. Dist. v. Pulaski Co. Spec. Sch. Dist., U.S. Dist. Ct., E.D. Ark., Case No. 4:82CV00866BSM). This court document [...]

The Grand Canyon and the Pulaski County Special School District have something in common.  I’m not referring to size, or the number of people that pass through each year.  Rather, we are like this massive canyon in the relationship between central office administrators and everyone else (students, parents, teachers, staff, and taxpayers).  For years, relations [...]

NOTE:  I am opening up my blog to guest articles and will be publishing contributions from others who have expressed a strong interest in ensuring the success of the PCSSD.  This is the first guest contribution, and I am looking forward to others.  Thank you to Dave Wheeler for his always intelligent, insightful and well-informed [...]

A fact that I have not seen reported by the media so far is that the overpayment of three district employees in the total amount of almost $10,000 was NOT caused by excusable human error or mere oversight.  The truth is very disturbing, especially in light of the fact that this all occurred WELL after [...]

Dr. Hopson’s reported statement that he will ask the Arkansas Department of Education to remove the entire school board prompted me to research the cases in which the ADE could take such an action. The ADE can remove the entire school board and/or superintendent of a school district that is declared “in fiscal distress.”  The [...]

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