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U. Arkansas-Walmart BIPOC-Only Program Paused After Equal Protection Project Challenge

Posted by James Nault on February 05, 2025 4 Comments

University spokesman: The program "is not currently active, and participants are not currently being solicited or chosen. If the program relaunches in the future, changes will occur to further clarify that participation is open to any interested students."...

U. Arkansas-Walmart Joint BIPOC-Only Mentor Program Challenged By Equal Protection Project

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 26, 2024 10 Comments

"[B]ased on the requirement that participating students be BIPOC, the campus meetings would be de facto segregated by race, skin color, and ethnicity. Any reasonable student viewing the information on the U of A website would understand the racially exclusionary basis of the program, and...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Brings the Fight to Biden in Funny and Moving Speech at the RNC

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 17, 2024 10 Comments

“The Left loves to talk about the war on women, but the only war that I see being waged is from the far-Left against the conservative, strong women in this country”...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs EO to Protect Athletic Opportunities for Arkansas Women

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 27, 2024 2 Comments

“The government should celebrate, not erase, sex differences by providing proper protections for them.” ...

Federal Court: Arkansas Teachers Can Teach CRT, But Can’t Make Students “Adopt, Affirm, or Profess” It

Posted by Jane Coleman on May 10, 2024 36 Comments

Court: This Order should give comfort to teachers across the state (and to their students) that Section 16 does not prohibit teachers from teaching about, using, or referring to Critical Race Theory so long as they do not compel their students to accept it as...

Arkansas Man Arrested on Charges Stemming from January 6

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 05, 2023 52 Comments

Leftist rioters have done way worse than Nathan Earl Hughes. The double standard exists....

Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Ban on “Gender Transition Procedures” for Minors

Posted by Terrance Kible on June 27, 2023 35 Comments

The judge held the law discriminated based on sex, denied parents their liberty interest in caring for their children, and restricted physicians' speech....

Arkansas Minority Health Commission Scraps ‘Scholarship Program That Excluded Whites After Lawsuit’

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 15, 2023 3 Comments

"The lawsuit was brought on behalf of an Arkansas pre-nursing student"...

AR Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Signs LEARNS Act Into Law, Giving Students Universal School Choice

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 09, 2023 15 Comments

"I promised to be the education governor, and that's why I prioritized it on day one, and today, that's why I'm proud to be delivering"...

Five Environmental Consultants Killed in Plane Crash on Way to Investigate Ohio Metal Factory Explosion

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 23, 2023 22 Comments

The consultants worked for The Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH)....

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Reveals ‘Overhaul’ for Education, Banning CRT and Offering School Choice

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 22, 2023 14 Comments

"We want to make sure we’re empowering parents by giving them educational freedom accounts to allow them to make the best decision about where and how their kids should be educated"...

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Arkansas ‘Anti-BDS’ Statute To Remain, SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Challenge

Posted by Jane Coleman on February 21, 2023 40 Comments

Refused to hear an appeal from an Eighth Circuit ruling upholding the law, the only circuit-level court to have addressed the merits of the anti-Israel-boycott statutes....

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Bans CRT in Schools, Use of ‘Latinx’ in State Government

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 13, 2023 12 Comments

"Under my leadership, schools will teach reading, writing, math, and science"...

Ruptured Water Coil Damages U. Arkansas-Little Rock’s Basketball Court

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 29, 2022 5 Comments

"Joe Foley Court was covered in water, so the school had no choice but to rip up the hardwood to let it dry."...

Henderson State University Laying Off Faculty and Cutting Degree Programs

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 16, 2022 2 Comments

“Henderson’s financial challenges span multiple years”...

Arkansas AG: “Instituting Practices Based On Critical Race Theory” In Education Violates Anti-Discrimination Laws

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2021 14 Comments

"Any effort to take account of race in a way that differently accords benefits or opportunities or creates a hostile environment in an educational institution is almost certainly unlawful"...

University of Arkansas Considers Moving Statue of Late Senator William Fulbright

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 10, 2021 3 Comments

"critics of Fulbright point to the senator’s civil rights record"...

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