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The Here Comes Huckabee Edition

Mike Huckabee’s presidential announcement, the hiring of Baker Kurrus to run the Little Rock School District, the latest from the Arkansas Supreme Court on the same-sex marriage case and the future of the private option in Arkansas — all covered on this week's podcast.
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Superintendent Kurrus says no reconfiguration for Rockefeller Elementary

Thursday evening's Rockefeller Elementary PTA meeting with new Little Rock School District Superintendent Baker Kurrus and Associate Superintendent Marvin Burton marked a striking shift in LRSD public relations.
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Meet the new boss: Baker Kurrus' reflections on LRSD board experience, five years ago

While we digest news of Kurrus' hiring and collect reactions from the community, a good place to begin is with the piece that Kurrus himself wrote for the Arkansas Times in November 2010, shortly after he ended a 12-year run on the LRSD board.

Baker Kurrus will be Little Rock's new superintendent

At a press conference this afternoon, Education Commissioner Johnny Key announced that he is hiring Baker Kurrus to be the new superintendent of the Little Rock School District. Kurrus will officially begin tomorrow.
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UPDATE: State Board of Education to hold special meeting concerning LRSD waiver

Something's up. The State Board of Education has announced a special meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 5. The lone agenda item concerns a request for a waiver of state law regarding the Little Rock School District.

Meeting set on Little Rock schools

A notice from Arkansas Community Organizations indicates the continuing ferment in the Little Rock School District over the state takeover and the lack, so far, of much action by the state in the intervening three months to begin a turnaround in schools in need of assistance.
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LRSD budget committee discusses health insurance cuts, changes to school day

On Monday, Little Rock School District Superintendent Dexter Suggs and the Budget Efficiency Advisory Committee met to continue discussing plans for major cuts to the district's budget in advance of a loss of state desegregation funding.

Committee named to work on Little Rock school finances

Interim Little Rock School Superintendent Dexter Suggs and Baker Kurrus, the former Little Rock School Board member named by Education Commissioner Tony Wood to work on district finances announced today a committee to assist in the work.
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Baker Kurrus named to work on Little Rock School District finances

One front-page headline in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette this morning was good news to me. It was on Cynthia Howell's article that former Little Rock School Board member Baker Kurrus had been named by state Education Commissioner Tony Wood to lead a committee on district finances.

CORRECTED: The cost of Little Rock charter school enrollment

Kids aren't deck chairs, but the old cliche seems to fit when the subject becomes moving kids around in search of better education.
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Banko: It's not just about dollars: UPDATE

St. Vincent Health CEO Peter Banko said in an interview today that the decision to affiliate with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will not be made on savings alone — the $38 million to $63 million estimated by a Deloitte Consulting study isn’t so great that it’s a deal-maker — but also on the ability of the third-party affiliated entity to expand.

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