
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.

Arkansas Lottery Officials update the Legislative Oversight Committee on decreasing lottery revenue. A group advocates at the state capitol for fairer tax laws, and the Ben Geren Aquatics Center moves forward as the first construction bids will soon be awarded.

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.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says there are drums, guitars and horns in our near future.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the Wrecking Ball takes to downtown Springdale for a one of a kind event for one night only. Plus, First Christian jChurch in Fayetteville prepares to celebrate its 100th birthday today.
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers congratulates you on surviving Friday the 13th. Then, she lists all that’s happening this weekend.
Arkansas businesses can benefit by exporting goods; the University of Arkansas’ women’s basketball team loses to Mississippi; and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
“Friday the 13th” by The Ionious Monk
Bradford Anderson, an actor on General Hospital, is in northwest Arkansas to participate in the 40/29 Northwest Arkansas Women’s Living Expo.
More information is available on www.womenslivingexpo.com/NWA2012.
Theme from General Hospital
Dan Craft, special projects reporter from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, visits KUAF to discuss a story by reporter Misty Gittings who’s following a legislative repayment issue in Bentonville.
Rhonda Vanlue Gray and fifteen others defined lives of generations of minority students to come by being the first African-American students at Alma Public Schools in 1964. She and other former students who helped integrate schools in Fort Smith, Charleston and Alma will be honored at “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration of Unsung Heroes” event at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith on January 18.
“Spiritual” by Charlie Hayden and Hank Jones