Got to love this…my book on the front page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Very enterprising of her to score an early copy…hmmm, wonder if I can get Arne Duncan to do the same….and oh yes, please tilt the title more toward the camera…

story below:

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State board approves LR boys charter school

CYNTHIA HOWELL ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

The Arkansas Board of Education on Monday approved a charter school for boys to open next year.
But — in response to Little Rock School District concerns — most students at the school will have to be either low achieving or from low-income families.
That condition came after lawyers for the state Department of Education and the school district disagreed about its legality.
The Little Rock Urban Collegiate Public Charter School for Young Men, designed to serve up to 696 boys in kindergarten through eighth grades is the only new openenrollment charter school to receive state approval for opening in 2010-11.
It will bring to 19 the number of open-enrollment charter schools in the state and it will be the 12th independently run public charter school in Pulaski County.

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