LRSD board discusses future of Hall, millage extension
LRSD board discusses future of Hall, millage extension
Two Little Rock high schools with low enrollment should be given time to develop,
Little Rock School District Superintendent Mike Poore told the
LRSD School Board on Thursday. LRSD staff also urged the board to consider going back to Little Rock voters to approve a millage extension as soon as early June.
Enrollment
Little Rock West High School of Innovation and
Hall STEAM Magnet for at least three years. He also advocated for adding a virtual school component to West, and suggested that Hall and nearby K-8 Forest Heights STEM Academy partner as a K-12. Poore also mentioned a “unique staffing model … in ways that Little Rock has never seen” at Hall to make it as cost-efficient as possible. If the board made a commitment to move forward with the vision for West and Hall, money from the business community in support of the Ford Next Generation Learning model
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This week, we’re joined by UC Berkeley PhD candidate Matthew Tarduno, who talks to us about his paper comparing congestion and economic impacts of ride hailing companies Uber and Lyft before and after the cessation of service in Austin, Texas. We talk about potentially beneficial congestion policies and how the paper might apply to some cities and not others.
For those of you who prefer to use your eyes rather than your ears, there’s a partial transcript below the audio player (a full transcript is here):
Here’s the partial transcript:
Jeff Wood: So you wrote a paper entitled “The Congestion Costs of Lyft and Uber” in the Journal of Urban Economics. I’m curious what the impetus was. I mean, you kind of explained a little bit, but what the impetus was for thinking specifically as it pertains to ride hailing.