On Friday, September 20, 2019, almost five years after the Arkansas State Board of Education took over the Little Rock School District, the Board voted unanimously at a special meeting to adopt a framework for the future of the LRSD.

That framework calls for the separate governance of schools within the district. Any schools assigned a letter grade of F will “operate under different leadership than the remaining schools in the district, but in partnership with the District.”

The schools most likely to be assigned an F grade are largely attended by little Rock’s Black and Latino kids.

Especially in a city with our history of racially segregated schools, this absolutely must not stand.

Please take a few moments to write Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Education Commissioner Johnny Key and the members of the State Board of Education and tell them you object. Tell them we will not stand by and watch the LRSD become divided under separate governance. We want the LRSD to become a world-class public education system, and we can only achieve that if we are united.



