Archive | April, 2011

Softball Notebook: Area Teams Scramble To Make Up Games

The spring storms have played havoc with area softball teams that are trying to finish the regular season and get ready for postseason play.

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Track/Soccer Notebook: Roland Eyes Regionals; Rain Delays Matches

Roland track coach Richard Pratt has sent an individual to the 4A State Meet in each of the last eight years and will try to do so again this season.

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Hillis Lands On Cover Of Madden 2012 Game

FAYETTEVILLE — Former Arkansas running back Peyton Hillis is a video game cover boy.

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PCSSD board, superintendent missing the point

They just don’t get it The response of the Pulaski County Special School District trustees to the district being placed in fiscal distress is indicative of how it got there in the first place — extravagant spending, lack of financial control and being out of touch with reality.

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White flight by educators

Last week, 32 Pulaski County Special School District teachers and administrators walked out of diversity training. One of their chief complaints as voiced by board member Gloria Lawrence was that the facilitator made them feel uncomfortable and used the term “white,” which they found objectionable.

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Pulaski County school board has ethical woes

During last week’s emergency meeting of the Pulaski County Special School District board, new board member Tom Stuthard of Jacksonville moved to go into executive session because he said he had some things he wanted to say to board members in private and not “out here for everyone to hear.”

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Players new, but ethical issues still dog PCSSD

The new version of the Pulaski County Special School District board is changed, but not necessarily for the better.

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NLR, Pulaski County school districts earn F’s

Both the North Little Rock and Pulaski County Special school districts deserve a grade of F for their recent placement on the state’s list of financially distressed school districts.

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White flight by educators

Last week, 32 Pulaski County Special School District teachers and administrators walked out of diversity training. One of their chief complaints as voiced by board member Gloria Lawrence was that the facilitator made them feel uncomfortable and used the term “white,” which they found objectionable.

Read the full story

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Pulaski County school board has ethical woes

During last week’s emergency meeting of the Pulaski County Special School District board, new board member Tom Stuthard of Jacksonville moved to go into executive session because he said he had some things he wanted to say to board members in private and not “out here for everyone to hear.”

Read the full story

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