
Ozarks At Large




While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.

The traveling exhibit called Hunger U is on the University of Arkansas campus this week.
Surveys conducted through site visits to Arkansas school districts that conducted PARCC field testing this spring showed that most districts will be prepared for Common Core technology requirements this fall.




Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the National Veterans Golden Age Games are set to take over Fayetteville and the region this weekend; we speak with one 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who hopes to win in his competitions, and we speak with an Arkansas elder who decided to obtain his GED many, many years after his high school years had passed. Plus, while many eyes are on the happenings at the World Cup, we attend a sports match of a different nature, polo, in Bentonville.
Wednesday’s topics for the 88th General Assembly included taxes and immigration. Our colleagues at KUAR covered the votes and discussions in Little Rock.
An abandoned historic African American Church in Fort Smith is scheduled to be demolished unless two advocates for the structure manage to raise the necessary funds to save it. Jacqueline Froelich first visited the Mallalieu Church last year, and provides an update. To contribute to the Mallalieu Project call 479-629-0994.
Michael Tilley from www.thecitywire.com talks about rising gas prices and the possibility water rates may soon go up in Fort Smith.
George Thorogood, the Voice of America and more in our history capsule for February 24.