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'public school employee insurance'

Teacher insurance system finances looking good for 2015 (unless you're a teacher)

Based on the first half of 2015, the beleaguered teacher insurance seems to be on track to avoid a rate increase or a change in benefits for the 2016 plan year. But that doesn't mean all is well.
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Lack of leadership, Oaklawn courtship: legislative folly

It used to be ritual that the governor addressed lawmakers at the end of each regular and emergency session to reassure them that Arkansans were in their debt for again protecting the state from the ravages of fate.
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The Arkansas legislature punts

I wrote this before the Arkansas legislature convened Monday for a three-day session to do something about school employee insurance, provide money for prisons and halt, at least temporarily, an expansion by the Arkansas Lottery into video games like keno.

Today in Arkansas: pagans lose out in Beebe

[embed-1] Today, Max explains why the plan to shore up public school employee insurance is only a short term fix (we recorded before the governor officially called the special session).
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No solution in sight for public school employee insurance crisis

To avoid a calamitous rise in insurance rates for public school employees (PSEs) at the end of 2014, the legislature will need to convene in special session this summer. Gov. Beebe won’t call a session until legislative leaders are confident that the votes are present to pass whatever fix is proposed. Today, the task force created to study the PSE insurance problem met jointly with the full Ed committee to review draft legislation proposed by Sen. Jim Hendren (R), the task force chair.

The coming teachers' insurance funding crisis, a punt on NSLA funds and more updates on K-12 education policy in Arkansas

With the endless debate on the private option Medicaid expansion eclipsing most other issues this fiscal session, it’s been easy to forget that Arkansas’s spending on health care remains far outweighed by the largest component of the budget — schools. Education remains at the center of state public policy, and although the legislature did not make any sweeping changes to the school system within the limited confines of the fiscal session, there’s plenty on the horizon. Expect every measure that failed in 2014 to re-emerge in 2015, if not sooner.
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