LRSD community schools coming along, board told
LRSD community schools coming along, board told
February 26, 20211:00 pm
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the city of Little Rock and the Little Rock School District are making progress on the development of the first four “community schools” in the LRSD. The four schools, which were announced in September, are
Chicot,
The model has three pillars,
Jay Barth, the city of Little Rock’s chief education officer, told the LRSD School Board Thursday:
Advertisement Providing integrated student supports. “No matter how powerful the teaching, no matter how powerful the curriculum, students really need supports so they can be their best academically,” Barth said, mentioning health care and tutoring services as examples.
The closest thing to a royal palace in Arkansas sits on eight acres in downtown Little Rock.
It is relatively new and the product of a once-embarrassing situation. An out-of-state delegation inquired about visiting the governor’s mansion, the true story goes, when their host had to explain that, even after more than a century of statehood, Arkansas did not have one.
Funds were subsequently raised, bricks were borrowed from a nearby school for the blind, and construction was completed in 1950. The three-story Georgian-Colonial features a grand staircase and grand pianos, a crystal chandelier from King Louis XVI’s France and battleship silverware from the USS Arkansas, a massive ballroom inside and manicured gardens outside.
City announces WiFi availability in parks, community centers
City announces WiFi availability in parks, community centers
December 29, 20204:13 pm
The city of Little Rock announced this afternoon the availability of free WiFi in parks and community centers to help people working and schooling during the pandemic.
Noted: The live Facebook video kicked out shortly after the news conference began. Just like mine at home does now and then.
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Mayor Frank Scott, Jr. and Chief Education Officer, Dr. Jay Barth, announced the City’s public free broadband project aimed at providing more digital equity and bridging the digital divide at a time when a global pandemic requires more online learning and teleworking. Click to wifi.lrprsurvey.org http://wifi.lrprsurvey.org to see a map containing the locations of each Wi-Fi enabled site.
While they did charge a nominal fee, many who hired them were in need.
“I think it’s fantastic. I mean these kids should be proud of themselves,” said Mary Duff of Naugatuck.
Duff is one of 25 customers the boys helped and says this would’ve been difficult to do on her own.
“We’re getting a little bit older it’s getting harder to remove all the snow,” she said.
These boys weren’t the only people helping others. All around Naugatuck you could find neighbors helping others, many of whom did not charge a nickel. Even those who clear snow for a living were doing some for free.
The Electoral College is flawed so are the alternatives: Experts
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Electoral College set to cast votes for president
The 538 members of the Electoral College will cast their ballots Monday to elect the new president and vice president.AP
Democracy is built on majority rule and the concept that every person s vote counts.
Yet five times in history, American presidents have won office while losing the popular vote, with two of those instances coming in the past 20 years George W. Bush in 2000 by a margin of around 500,000 votes and Donald Trump in 2016 by about 3 million.
At issue is the uniquely American system of the Electoral College, which provides that a group of specially chosen representatives (538 at present) for each state choose the president, generally using a winner-takes-all model based on the popular vote.