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Basking in the glow of an election victory for the Pine Bluff School District, state education deputy commissioner Stacy Smith pitched to the Arkansas Board of Education on Thursday the return of full local control of the district after five years of state leadership.
Flowers longest-serving African American in General Assembly history Grace Barbic and Sarah Mansur Capitol News Illinois Feb. 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Rep. Mary Flowers, accompanied on the floor of the Bank of Springfield Center by her granddaughter at the beginning of the 102nd General Assembly in January, is the longest-serving Black lawmaker in the history of the Illinois General Assembly. SPRINGFIELD — During the past three and half decades, Rep. Mary Flowers — who in January became the longest-serving African American lawmaker in the Illinois General Assembly’s history — has...