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A total of 163 Arkansas public schools — including charter schools — are newly identified as recipients of $6,950,900 in rewards for student achievement and/or improvement on the ACT Aspire exams last spring and, if applicable, the 2021-2022 high school graduation rates.

A total of 163 Arkansas public schools — including charter schools — are newly identified as recipients of $6,950,900 in rewards for student achievement and/or improvement on the ACT Aspire exams last spring and, if applicable, the 2021-2022 high school graduation rates.

The Libertarian Party of Arkansas petition to be a new political party has been deemed sufficient by the secretary of states office, Secretary of State John Thurston said Friday.

Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston has determined the Libertarian Party of Arkansas petition to be a new political party has been deemed sufficient, spokesman Chris Powell said Friday.

A week before the Bald Knob School Board put Superintendent Melissa Gipson on paid administrative leave, a resignation letter accused her of turning “a wonderful place to work into a

Then-Attorney General Leslie Rutledge paid 26 of the offices employees a total of $69,055 in excess of the line-item salary appropriation under Act 45 of 2021 for their positions in fiscal year 2022 that ended June 30, 2022, and that conflicts with Article 16, Section 4 of the Arkansas Constitution, according to Arkansas Legislative Audit.

LITTLE ROCK -- Then-Attorney General Leslie Rutledge paid 26 of the offices employees a total of $69,055 in excess of the line-item salary appropriation under Act 45 of 2021 for their positions in fiscal year 2022 that ended June 30, 2022, and that conflicts with Article 16, Section 4 of the Arkansas Constitution, according to Arkansas Legislative Audit.

District Judge Chris Carnahan of Conway, an unsuccessful state Supreme Court candidate last year, has settled an ethics complaint with the Arkansas Ethics Commission about his acceptance of a contribution from the Saline County Republican Women group, and the commission has issued him a public letter of caution.

The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee on Friday authorized Arkansas Legislative Audit to conduct an expedited review of the purchase of a lectern for about $19,000 from Beckett Events LLC by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders office.

In a voice vote without any audible dissenters or debate, the full committee voted to approve its executive committee’s recommendation to conduct the review of the lectern purchase requested by Sen. Jimmy Hickey, R-Texarkana, a former chairman of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.