Members selected unlicensed replacement, may have violated FOI law The West Memphis school board has terminated the district’s superintendent, Richard Atwill, without cause or explanation on a vote of 4-3….
Governor Sanders’ column reads like a 500 word admiration requirement for a state commission application. Thoughts and prayers to any Arkansan who ventures to read the governor’s list of accomplishments…
How does articulating admiration qualify one to serve on a state board? 4/14/23 UPDATE: The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports the Sanders administration blames their web vendor for the admiration requirement….
DeAnn Vaught (R-Horatio) stood up for librarians and local control. Hats off to her. DeAnn Vaught did what’s right today. Here at On AR Watch, most of our content is…
Sen. Dan Sullivan and 17 other white male Senators think gutting affirmative action will end discrimination. It’s hard to objectively write about the Senate voting to end state-sponsored affirmative actions…
Senate Education chair attempts to muzzle students who oppose LEARNS. The abuse of power continues. The last three weeks have been full of talk about the LEARNS Act, and the…
House Republican: legislators being threatened to vote “yes” on LEARNS bill or they will lose district funding Early this morning on the Capitol steps, Republican Jim Wooten of Beebe told…
Word has spread of superintendents being FOIA’d by legislators and allies of the school choice movement Superintendents across Arkansas, many from rural districts, are rightfully concerned about the effect of…
Calling educators liars is a very bad look, Senator. Yikes. Sen. Davis, the sponsor of Gov. Sanders’ LEARNS Act education bill, got pretty heated in this morning’s Senate Education Committee….
Good on Benton Co. for firing a deputy who committed a nonviolent sexual assault. The incident, in which former deputy Matt Cline grabs a woman’s breast, was caught on the…