A lawsuit challenging Arkansas’s school voucher program is still standing, despite the Sanders administration’s attempt to get it thrown out of court.
Kimberly Crutchfield
Posted inArkansas Blog
State asks judge to dismiss lawsuit challenging LEARNS voucher program
“The Constitution does not prohibit private schools from receiving state funds,” the attorney general argued.
Posted inArkansas Blog
Lawsuit challenges LEARNS voucher program as unconstitutional
The lawsuit says the genesis of the LEARNS voucher program lies in efforts to resist federal desegregation orders in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Posted inArkansas Blog
‘We will not be silent’: voices from the State Board meeting on strike day
The theme of the day, as seen at picket lines across the city and on Capitol grounds, was that teachers and community members are tired of the state’s mistreatment of the LRSD. Advocates are tired, but their commitment doesn’t seem to be waning.
Posted inCover Stories
The second Little Rock crisis
The city braces for a teachers strike and indefinite state control of the school district.