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For a couple of weeks during this years legislative session, education dominated the conversation at the state Capitol. But it was all of the K-12 variety.

Letters to the editor.

It was 1927, the year of the Great Flood that devastated Arkansas' cotton-based economy. The Little Rock School Board decided that year to begin offering junior college classes at Little Rock High School at the urging of John Larson, the school's principal. The University of Arkansas had stopped offering extension courses in Little Rock, and Larson felt the state's largest city should have college courses available.