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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.
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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
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