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The Billionaires Boys Club's Hands in Our Schools -- REAL Doom!
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State Board of Education takes over Little Rock School District
Posted By Max Brantley on Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:33 PM
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With Board chair Sam Ledbetter breaking a 4-4 tie, the state Board of Education today voted to take over the entire Little Rock School District, the state's largest, for the academic distress of six of the district's schools.
The Board is gone. Superintendent Dexter Suggs was specifically retained, despite a lack of demonstration of ability to run the district.
The Billionaires Boys Club and its allies at the chamber of commerce won a hard-won and well-orchestrated battle.
[link to www.arktimes.com]
[ME: Among those in the club, or its allies are:
Aristotle's CEO, Marla Johnson
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Diane Zook, wife of Randy Zook, President and CEO of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce (source: [link to www.arkansasstatechamber.com] , and supposedly the aunt of the Arkansas Learns, AERF, President & CEO, Gary Newton. (sources: [link to www.arktimes.com] ; [link to www.arkansaslearns.org]
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Vicki Saviers who has served on the board of Arkansans for Education Reform, a lobby financed by the Waltons and other wealthy Arkansans, and who helped found the eStem charter school in Little Rock, another beneficiary of Walton money, and is on the Board of Directors of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. (sources: [link to www.arktimes.com] ; [link to www.wrfoundation.org]
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Kim Davis, Director of External Relations and Economic Development, a group whose backers are Walmart, the Walton Family Foundation, Sam's Club and Tyson Foods. (sources: [link to www.arktimes.com] ; [link to www.nwacouncil.org]
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Toyce Newton is the Chair of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Board. Additionally she has received statewide awards such as the African-American Women on the Move and Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Award (sources: [link to www.arktimes.com] ; [link to www.phoenixyouth.com]
Remember Central High?
On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of public schools was unconstitutional in the United States. That ruling would focus the spotlight of national attention in the United States upon the Arkansas National Guard and the Integration of Central High School. The Arkansas National Guard was drawn into the conflict when Governor Orval Faubus ordered them to "Preserve the Peace" by turning away the black students who were attempting to integrate into Little Rock's Central High School. President Dwight D. Eisenhower reacted to this use of the Guard to foil the court-ordered integration by federalizing the entire Arkansas National Guard and using it to protect the nine black students integrating Central High School.
(Source: [link to en.wikipedia.org]
The non-wikipedia version: [link to www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net]
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