State s $945 7M surplus in fiscal 21 highest ever nwaonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nwaonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
2021 Arkansas legislative nightmare: lawmakers stick it to their own constituents Kasten Searles
A year into a pandemic that stole jobs, lives and any sense of stability, Arkansans might have hoped for some help when lawmakers convened in January for the 93rd General Assembly. What they got was a kick in the face.
Untethered by any check or balance on their hefty Republican supermajority, extremist lawmakers spent their time belittling and attacking their own constituents. For transgender children, renters, would-be voters, pregnant women or public safety advocates, Arkansas senators and representatives refused aid, offering insults and punishments instead.
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Is a Democrat allowed to pass legislation that helps people vote? No.
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The question was asked and answered in the negative today in the Senate on SB 781 by Sen. Clarke Tucker, a Little Rock Democrat.
It enjoyed bipartisan support. It incorporated many suggestions from Republican Sen. Kim Hammer, architect of most of the Republican vote agenda bills this session, as well as other Republicans who worked on the bill.
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Its key element is simple equity. In adding new impediments to absentee balloting this year, Republicans eliminated the ability to correct minor errors detected in checking returned absentee ballots, particularly an ability to cure a failure to include in the envelope the newly required photo ID.
Arkansas Senate approves bill to raise teacher salaries
House Bill (HB) 1614 aims to help school districts that pay below the state s average and would create the teacher salary equalization fund. Author: 5NEWS Web Staff Updated: 3:00 PM CDT April 7, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. The Arkansas Senate gave its final approval to a bill that would raise the average teacher salary in Arkansas by $2,000 over the next two years.
House Bill (HB) 1614 aims to help school districts that pay below the state s average and would create the teacher salary equalization fund.
The State Education Department says there is a shortage of licensed teachers in several areas of the state and that teacher salaries are a key factor in attracting individuals to the field of teaching.
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