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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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Cynthia Howell
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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.
LRSD provides update on vaccination effort
LRSD provides update on vaccination effort
January 28, 20219:56 pm
Little Rock School District Superintendent Mike Poore told the LRSD Board that 1,600 district employees have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That’s half of the 3,200 the LRSD employs. Another 200-300, who were late to register for a vaccine appointment, should receive shots next week, Poore said.
Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Cornerstone Pharmacy, Baptist Health, Don’s Pharmacy, Kroger and Park West Pharmacy have run vaccination clinics for the district.
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Teresa Knapp Gordon, president of the
Little Rock Education Association, celebrated the vaccination effort, but also asked for a moment of silence for the educators who have died of COVID-19. She said four LRSD educators and 29 statewide have died of the coronavirus, and she cited numbers recently released by the Arkansas Department of Health: Cumulatively, there have been 10,062 ca