An appeals court panel has sided with the Pulaski County Special School District and vacated a judgment in favor of an assistant superintendent who sued the district after she was passed over for the superintendent position in 2018.
An attorney for White County jail officials named in a federal lawsuit by a former inmate, who said he suffered permanent injury in 2017 after treatment for a venomous spider bite was delayed for several days, was in court Monday trying to get the case dismissed.
The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District on Monday authorized payment of $38,002.50 in fees and costs to a legal team that represents Black students in an ongoing federal school desegregation lawsuit.
When my son Jason, whom I affectionately call Son No. 2, was 6 years old, I was reading him the story of the "Ugly Duckling." I remember the little ducks being white, and the ugly duckling being black. The little black duckling was shunned by the other ducks, and they would not play with him because of his color.
Attorneys for Black students in the Pulaski County Special School District have asked a federal judge to require district leaders to increase their reporting to him on plans for additions to the Mills University Studies High School campus.