“I didn’t want anybody to be blindsided and come to staff and say, ‘Why the hell didn’t you tell us about this?'” Cook told the Arkansas Times.
Jesselia Maples
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Lawsuit aims to freeze Marvell-Elaine School District handover to charter school company
Corner-cutting by Arkansas lawmakers may have cleared a path to put a hold on Arkansas’s new school choice expansion law. A suit filed Monday could freeze a handover of the imperiled Marvell-Elaine School District to a charter school management company, at least until community members can get a handle on what exactly the three-year contract entails.
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Charter management group wins first ever ‘transformation contract’ to take on struggling Marvell-Elaine schools, plenty of questions remain
Taken over by the state after years of low enrollment and academic distress, the Marvell Elaine School District in Phillips County will now be steered by a charter school management group. Probably? There are some legal questions still to be answered.