Ahead on this edition of Ozarks…the 2013 Northwest Arkansas Education Report Card has numbers, plenty of numbers, relating to 17 public school districts in Washington and Benton Counties. We'll talk to Gary Ritter, the director of the Office for Education Policy at the University of Arkansas about the report. And the three-person band The Room Outside plays inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. We'll also talk to Michael Tilley from The City Wire about the week’s news and Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers about the upcoming weekend’s entertainment opportunities.
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Trout Fishing in America, tea party, local mascots at Jones Center in Springdale, and movie screenings at Fayetteville, Rogers and Springdale Public Libraries.
"Listening Walk" by Julian Lage
Shades of Jazz host Robert Ginsburg speaks with guitar prodigy Julian Lage. Lage performs Saturday at the Walton Arts Center.
The City of Johnson announces the celebration of Johnson Switch Festival Day on June 11.
Just north of Fayetteville’s new west side waste water treatment plant is a very special meadow—which a crew of Cherokee burned last Friday. Jacqueline Froelich takes us there to explain. For a virtual tour, visit www.ecoarkansas.com
Dr. Janine Parry, director of Arkansas poll, chaired an advisory committee to the D.C.-based Institute for Women's Policy Research in 2000-2004. She talks about the history of women representation on a state level in Arkansas.
