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State cuts taxes for wealthy while starving program that feeds the elderly
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (563+ words) Cutbacks at the Arkansas Department of Human Services are imperiling the Meals on Wheels program and other social services for older Arkansans across the state, according to officials at one agency that oversees services in Pulaski and five other counties....
The Iowa story on vouchers sounds a lot like the Arkansas story
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (437+ words) If Arkansas " now providing a limitless amount of funding for its voucher program that pays school tuition for rich kids " can look at Arizona to see how that state's budget blew up from doing the same thing, our state can…...
State lawmaker Kendon Underwood guns for immigrant students
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (174+ words) Arkansas Times - Daily Update A roundup of the latest news, delivered every weekday afternoon. - Weekly Wrap-Up The latest stories from the week delivered every Friday afternoon. - Events Be first to know about upcoming events and local promotions, delivered occasionally. Only…...
AZ=AR: Arizona blew its budget with vouchers, and we will, too
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (618+ words) A few years from now, when Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders decamps again to Washington, D. C. , and her useful idiot acolytes in Arkansas are rightfully sidelined, the cruelty of Sanders" rich-get-richer scheme will still haunt us." So what happens next? Arizona can…...
University of Arkansas to fire professor dismissed over criticism of Israel
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (497+ words) University of Arkansas System President Jay Silveria is moving forward with terminating Shirin Saeidi, former director of UA Fayetteville's Middle East studies center, ignoring the unanimous recommendation of a faculty committee that voted to keep Saeidi." Saeidi was dismissed in…...
Members of the Elaine Legacy Center are embroiled in a legal fight over control of the nonprofit
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (247+ words) Key figures in the Elaine Legacy Center are embroiled in yet another lawsuit, this time over control of the nonprofit organization that was founded years ago to memorialize the 1919 Elaine Massacre and do community development projects in a rural, poverty-stricken…...
Vouchers, vigilantes and vicious bears: The best and worst of Arkansas 2025
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (850+ words) If you pinned your hopes on 2025, we're guessing you're pretty disappointed." But an unexpected crack in the GOP supermajority also emerged around Gov. Sarah Sanders' mega-prison project in Franklin County. A cohort of bumptious rural Republican lawmakers rebelled, the governor's…...
Arkansas education department adopts most of plan to keep families, providers in child care industry
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (350+ words) The Arkansas Department of Education accepted most of a task force's recommendations to sustain the state's financial assistance program for low-income families to access child care. The department's announcement came in a letter to providers on Monday, two days after…...
Out-of-staters misrepresent'Arkansas voucher data to champion school privatization
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (678+ words) Last week, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute published an article that celebrates Arkansas's private school voucher program. It offers up data from our state's annual "Education Freedom Accounts" report as reason to believe that Arkansas families are giving up on public…...
Vouchers leave public schools behind
9+ mon, 6+ day ago (742+ words) The Little Rock School District is seeing declining enrollment, which has led to devastating school closures. This is largely due to the effects of vouchers and charter schools. When Booker Arts. .. The Little Rock School District is seeing declining enrollment,…...