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School board members question selection of Milton

Emails exchanged last week between members of the Little Rock School Board and the consultants it hired to find a superintendent, McPherson and Jacobson, indicate that at least a couple of board members were unhappy that the search firm had suggested Dr. Walter Milton.
- by Leslie Newell Peacock
- Feb 26, 2013

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Staff Blogs, Arkansas Blog, Feb 26, 2013
School board members question selection of Milton
- by Leslie Newell Peacock
- Tags: Little Rock Schools, Walter Milton, Little Rock School Board, McPherson and Jacobson, Kieth Williams, Jody Carreiro, Leslie Plowman Fisken, Norma Johnson, Greg Adams, Little Rock School District superintendent

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Emails exchanged last week between members of the Little Rock School Board and the consultants it hired to find a superintendent, McPherson and Jacobson, indicate that at least a couple of board members were unhappy that the search firm had suggested Dr. Walter Milton.

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Re: Morning report: ExxonMobil caught; city directors get big pay raise; the return of Ken Starr

Re: Thursday To-Do: Mary Gauthier

Re: Escaping traffic in America: The remotest place in Arkansas

Last February, the Arkansas Public Policy Panel and Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation released a report I authored titled "Ripe for Reform: Arkansas as a Model for Social Change."

My overriding emotion about the fate of state Treasurer Martha Shoffner is sadness.

Good times start rolling Friday.

After a couple of years of local and rising national acts playing in the Stickyz Music Tent underneath the Broadway Bridge, the venue-within-a-venue will make a move east this year from the tent to an outdoor stage near the Clinton Presidential Center.

Public for the first time, the woman who married Damien Echols discusses their relationship

For the vegetarian banh mi sandwich.

Our news partner Channel 4 has a news story that deserves repetition in full. More national headlines for the small people of Arkansas should follow directly.

Perhaps U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin might want to reconsider his earlier decision not to include Republican Rep. Loy Mauch on the list of Republican candidates he'd asked not to use his campaign contributions, having read some of what they'd written.

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