For more than a decade in the ‘80s and ‘90s, a small private school called the McGraw Learning Institute brought Afrocentric education to Little Rock.
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Students and dignitaries celebrate in Little Rock as Daisy Bates statue debuts in Washington, D.C.
Celebrations and simulcasts took place at both Central High School and Second Baptist Church in Little Rock today, as a statue commemorating civil rights leader and newspaper publisher Daisy Bates was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.
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Judge partly sides with plaintiffs suing to stop Arkansas’s ban on ‘critical race theory,’ ‘indoctrination’
Though Judge Lee Rudofsky’s ruling was narrow, he said it “should give comfort to teachers across the state” that they won’t be broadly punished for the content of their lessons — even “critical race theory.”
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Federal judge schedules hearing in Arkansas LEARNS lawsuit
Judge Rudofsky denied a portion of the plaintiffs’ request for an expedited briefing schedule because they could have filed their complaint and preliminary injunction months ago, he wrote.
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Lawsuit over state’s targeting of AP African American Studies adds 2nd teacher, NAACP as plaintiffs
LEARNS “dissuades prospective AP AAS students from registering because of perceived diminishment of the class and natural concerns about its uncertain future,” the complaint says.
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Federal judge in LEARNS lawsuit plans to apply for LEARNS vouchers, won’t recuse
Judge Lee Rudofsky, a Trump appointee and member of the conservative Federalist Society, hopes to take advantage of Arkansas’s new school voucher program.
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Central High plaintiffs sue Sanders, Oliva over targeting of AP African American Studies
“The LEARNS Act’s Section 16 is nothing more than a brazen, political attempt to silence speech and expression with which Gov. Sanders and Secretary Oliva simply disagree,” attorney Mike Laux said.
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Best and Worst 2023
Here’s the thing about 2023: You have to grade it on a curve. Things weren’t great; they could have been a whole lot worse.
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Arkansas educators examine revised AP African American Studies curriculum
After the furor over AP African American Studies earlier this year, six Arkansas school districts offering the pilot course are considering whether to offer the class in the future.
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‘Bring it.’ Members of the Little Rock Nine are not shaken by state attempts to hide their history
Members of the Little Rock Nine met with high school seniors from across the city Monday to answer students’ questions about public education, integration and real history. The Nine did not hold back.