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12 Sep 2017, 3:20 am by Scott Bomboy
In February 1958, the Little Rock School District went to federal court to ask for a delay in the integration plan and in June, a federal judge ruled in the school district’s favor. [read post]
25 Aug 2014, 10:16 am by Derek Black
For the past three decades, desegregation litigation regarding the Little Rock Arkansas School District and surrounding districts has made its way through the federal courts. [read post]
26 May 2015, 1:45 pm by James Bingham
Little Rock, AR — A child was hit by a passing vehicle while waiting for a school bus in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 6:36 am
Federal marshals ordered the Little Rock school district to allow nine students, known as the Little Rock Nine, to attend an all-white public high school. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 3:59 pm by Andrew Babb
Big Rock, AR — Just west of Little Rock is a small town called Big Rock, which is where a Pulask County Special School District bus got into an accident with a car. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 9:25 am by Nathan Koppel
Lawyers for the school districts, which include Little Rock and North Little Rock, said the judge’s ruling could result in the loss of as much as $70 million in funding this coming school year. [read post]
13 Dec 2021, 6:51 am by Dan Filler
This just in: The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 1:50 pm
"Little Rock Freed of Deseg Supervision": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "A judge in one of the nation's longest-running school desegregation cases released the Little Rock district from federal supervision Friday, nearly 50 years after President Eisenhower sent in troops to escort nine black students into all-white Central High. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 8:54 am by Dan Filler
Professor Paula Casey, who began teaching at the University of  Arkansas - Little Rock School of Law in 1978 - taking off eight years to serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas during the Clinton years - has been named the law school's interim dean as of July 1, 2012. [read post]
9 Oct 2015, 7:50 am by LaJuana Davis
The LRSD's overall faculty population is 32% black, but minorities make up a much smaller percentage of the faculty at the district's schools with a majority-white student body. [read post]
8 May 2007, 1:24 am
Roy Brooks, the superintendent of schools in Little Rock, Ark., in his office. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 6:55 am by Nathan Koppel
Lawyers for the three school districts, Little Rock, North Little Rock, and Pulaski County, have said the loss of state funding could lead to budgetary chaos at the schools. [read post]
24 Aug 2004, 4:50 pm
The Appeals court agreed that the US District Court in Little Rock was right to issue an injunction against the prayers, but gave different reasons -- the practice endorsed a religion, as opposed to focusing on the fact that art [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 6:37 am
"LR schools declared desegregated": Today's edition of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette contains an article that begins, "The Little Rock School District - supervised by federal courts longer than any other desegregating school district in the nation - is 'completely unitary,' a federal appeals court panel affirmed Thursday. [read post]
7 Sep 2021, 4:00 am by Josh Blackman
District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas denied the Little Rock School Board's petition to suspend its integration program. [read post]
7 Sep 2020, 4:00 am by Josh Blackman
District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas denied the Little Rock School Board's petition to suspend its integration program. [read post]
11 Sep 2007, 1:27 pm
Seattle School District, 127 S.Ct. 2738 (2007). [read post]
7 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Josh Blackman
District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas denied the Little Rock School Board's petition to suspend its integration program. [read post]