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EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: Freer board hailed by teachers union | Ignite academies deadline extended | State Teach Plus gets new director
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Freer board hailed by teachers union
The Little Rock Education Association is among the organizations and individuals celebrating the lifting last week of state restrictions on Little Rock School Board authority.
Those restrictions or guardrails, which were imposed until the district exited Level 5 of the state accountability system, barred the School Board from recognizing the Little Rock Education Association for contract bargaining.
Association President Teresa Knapp Gordon said in a prepared statement that the systemic and curricular changes that occurred in the district and resulted in its exit from Level 5 were the result of efforts by teachers.
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The 2021 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star team
May 10, 20212:10 pm WIZ KIDS: (From left) Greenwood High s Anna Johnson, Episcopal Collegiate s Adanna Mogbo and Springdale High s Ryan Espejo.
The 2021
Arkansas Times Academic All-Star Team, the 27th team the
Times has honored, includes quiz bowl savants, budding novelists, future engineers and doctors and championship athletes. There’s rarely a B on the transcripts of these students in not just this, their senior year, but in any year of their high school careers. Read on for stories of inspiration in these troubled times. And see lists of All-Star finalists and nominees.
Traditionally, the All-Star team is made up of 10 boys and 10 girls, but this year’s class of boys was so strong our judges, retired school counselor Sam Blair and nonprofit leader and former State Board of Education member Mireya Reith, insisted on 11 boys.
It s just another day at school for Mr. Kimbrew.
For 26 years, he s been a substitute teacher in the Little Rock Metro area. I’ve been at all three school districts and several charter schools,” said Kimbrew. I m in somebody s class.”
Education is important to Mr. Kimbrew.
He s enjoyed watching students grow into successful adults over the years. That s why he chooses to keep going despite retirement.
His dedication has proven unmatched.
Up until the pandemic when city bus system shut down, it s what he relied on to get to work. It would get me so far, and then I d walk the rest of the way to get here,” said Kimbrew.