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Federal covid aid won't be used to offset proposed Arkansas tax cuts, state budget chief says

Arkansas' budget director says no federal American Rescue Plan funds will be used to directly offset the proposed tax cuts that lawmakers will consider in a special session expected to begin Aug. 9, and that any indirect offset would be difficult to compute, if it exists.

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Governor Hutchinson nonplussed by lawmakers' dodge on teacher raises, but won't force the issue

Governor Hutchinson nonplussed by lawmakers' dodge on teacher raises, but won't force the issue
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Arkansas Senate OKs penalties against 2 members after approving committee's findings on ethics violations

The Arkansas Senate on Thursday approved its Ethics Committee findings that state Sens. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, and Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, violated the Senate's ethics rules as well as its recommendations for penalties.

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Arkansas Legislative Council delays funds transfer to 3 groups after lawmaker says wife advised them on fundraising

The Legislative Council on Thursday delayed action on requests by Gov. Asa Hutchinson's administration to transfer $5 million in state restricted reserve funds to the Arkansas National Guard Foundation and $750,000 in state rainy-day funds to support the World Services for the Blind, and to grant spending authority to allow the attorney general to donate $250,000 in lawsuit settlement proceeds to the Sultana Historical Preservation Society.

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Arkansas Senate OKs penalties against 2 members after approving committee's findings on ethics violations

The Arkansas Senate on Thursday approved its Ethics Committee findings that state Sens. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, and Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, violated the Senate's ethics rules as well as its recommendations for penalties.

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PINE BLUFF SCHOOL DISTRICT: Higher-than-minimum salary, bonuses available to teachers

This is the fourth and final part of a series on the state of the Pine Bluff School District.

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Battle lines being drawn in debate over Arkansas teacher pay increase as special session nears

Palestine-Wheatley School District in St. Francis County will move to a four-day week when students return to school this fall in one attempt to fill its 54-teacher roster.

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All Democratic lawmakers call for teacher raises; governor says support still lacking

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has announced he is calling legislators into special session Aug. 8.

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Battle lines being drawn in debate over Arkansas teacher pay increase as special session nears

Palestine-Wheatley School District in St. Francis County will move to a four-day week when students return to school this fall in one attempt to fill its 54-teacher roster.

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Ethics panel rejects excuses

The Arkansas Senate Ethics Committee didn't find state Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, persuasive in his reasoning for his decision to sign the reimbursement sign-in sheet for fellow Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, for a June 3 Boys State committee meeting that Clark didn't attend, the committee said in a report released late Monday afternoon.

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