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Pine Bluff School District
Pine Bluff School District No. 3 (PBSD) is a school district headquartered in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The district has 10 schools with over 3,800 students and 500 employees. The headquarters are the Jordan-Chanay Administrative Center in Pine Bluff. It is one of the largest school districts in the Pine Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Previously the district served both black and white high school students from the Dollarway School District (DSD) as that district only went up to junior high school, with Merrill High and Pine Bluff High taking each group, respectively. - Cited page 359. This ended for black students in 1955 with the opening of Townsend Park High School and for white students the same year as the Pine Bluff district stopped accepting white Dollarway high school students due to overcrowding. - Cited page 360. Due to the Civil Rights Movement, Pine Bluff schools desegregated. On July 1, 1984, the Linwood School District consolidated into the Pine B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School District
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations. North America United States In the U.S, most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts, which usually operate several schools, and the largest urban and suburban districts operate hundreds of schools. While practice varies significantly by state (and in some cases, within a state), most American school districts operate as independent local governmental units under a grant of authority and within geographic limits created by state law. The executive and legislative power over locally controlled policies and operations of an independent school district are, in most cases, held by a school district's board of education. Depending on state law, members of a local board of education (often referred to informally as a school board) may be elected, appointed by a political office holder, serve ex officio, or a combination of any of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Rock School District
The Little Rock School District is a school district in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. It is one of four public school districts in Pulaski County and encompasses of land nearly coterminous with the state's capital and largest city. In addition to most of Little Rock it serves Cammack Village. The district however does not include the Pulaski County section of Alexander, as that is an exclave of the Pulaski County Special School District. From its establishment in 1869 until 1886 it was known as the School District of Little Rock, and then from that year to 1963 it was known as the Special School District of Little Rock. It took its present name in 1963. 2015 State takeover of district In July 2014, the Arkansas State Board of Education classified six of the nearly fifty district schools as being in "academic distress": Baseline Elementary School, Cloverdale Magnet Middle School, Henderson Middle School, Hall High School, J.A. Fair High School and McClellan Magnet H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkansas Department Of Transportation
The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT), formerly the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, is a government department in the U.S. state of Arkansas. Its mission is to provide a safe, efficient, aesthetically pleasing and environmentally sound intermodal transportation system for the user. The department is responsible for implementing policy made by the Arkansas State Highway Commission, a board of officials appointed by the Governor of Arkansas to direct transportation policy in the state. The department's director is appointed by the commission to hire staff and manage construction and maintenance on Arkansas's highways. The primary duty of ArDOT is the maintenance and management of the over Arkansas Highway System. The department also conducts planning, public transportation, the State Aid County Road Program, the Arkansas Highway Police, and Federal-Aid project administration. Its headquarters are in Little Rock. History Central control of highway tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Dick, Arkansas
Lake Dick is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. Lake Dick is northeast of Pine Bluff and south of Altheimer. The Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program which supported farming projects, established the community on the shore of Lake Dick in 1936. The administration built the community's buildings in the next two years and relocated 80 farming families from throughout Arkansas to the community. Unlike most Resettlement Administration farming communities, which divided farmland among their residents, Lake Dick was a cooperative farming project; families jointly participated in producing crops on community farmland according to a work schedule. Roughly one-third of the community's original buildings are still in place; most of the others, particularly the houses, have been relocated to other nearby settlements. The community was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Education It is a part of the Pine Bluff Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardin, Arkansas
Hardin is an unincorporated area in Washington Township, Jefferson County, Arkansas. It is on U. S. Highway 270. It has the GNIS ID 57880. Education Residents are in the Pine Bluff School District. - The map shows Dollarway School District as not yet merged into Pine Bluff School District; the merger occurred on July 1, 2021. It is in a non-continuous part of the district, separated from the rest by the White Hall School District.Pickhardt, p. 358. The source refers to the former Dollarway School District, which merged into the Pine Bluff district on July 1, 2021. Students are zoned to Park/Greenville School for preschool, James Matthews Elementary School, Robert F. Morehead Middle School, and Dollarway High School. History of education Hardin previously had its own school district: it had elementary and junior high school levels, grades 1–9, in a two building facility, with one building newer than the other. The district paid for high school students to attend other schools. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unincorporated Areas
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have no unincorporated areas at all or these are very rare: typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Luis, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only one level of local government immediately beneath state and territorial governments. A local government area (LGA) often contains several towns and even entire metropolitan areas. Thus, aside from very sparsely populated areas and a few other special cases, almost all of Australia is part of an LGA. Uninc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wabbaseka, Arkansas
Wabbaseka is a town in Dunnington Township, Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. Its population was 255 at the 2010 U.S. census. It is included in the Pine Bluff, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Wabbaseka is located at (34.359964, -91.794090). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 323 people, 132 households, and 83 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 150 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 84.21% Black or African American, 15.17% White, and 0.62% from two or more races. There were 132 households, out of which 25.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.7% were married couples living together, 17.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families. 35.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.9% had someone living alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherrill, Arkansas
Sherrill is a town in Plum Bayou List of Arkansas townships, Township, Jefferson County, Arkansas, Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. Its population was 84 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 U.S. census. It is included in the Pine Bluff, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Sherrill is located at (34.3853740, -91.9506940). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.4 km (0.1 mi2), all land. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 84 people, 37 households, and 25 families residing in the town. The population density was 347.5/km (895.9/mi2). There were 54 housing units at an average density of 148.9/km (384.0/mi2). The racial makeup of the town was 44.0% Race (United States Census), White and 56.0% Race (United States Census), Black or Race (United States Census), African American. There were 37 households, out of which 10.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.2% were Marriage, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altheimer, Arkansas
Altheimer is a city in Plum Bayou Township, Jefferson County, Arkansas. It is situated on the Union Pacific Railway, northeast of Pine Bluff. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 984, down from 1,192 at the 2000 census. As of 2018 the estimated population was 829. Geography Altheimer is part of the Timberlands Region, an area rich in natural resources that was discovered by pioneers from the eastern states in the early 19th century. Deer hunting, bass fishing, timber and oil are plentiful in this area."Your New Hometown: The Timberlands." ''Arkansas.com.'' Retrieved January 15, 2016. Altheimer is in northeastern Jefferson County, northeast of Pine Bluff, the |
Plum Bayou-Tucker School District
A plum is a fruit of some species in ''Prunus'' subg. ''Prunus''''.'' Dried plums are called prunes. History Plums may have been one of the first fruits domesticated by humans. Three of the most abundantly cultivated species are not found in the wild, only around human settlements: ''Prunus domestica'' has been traced to East European and Caucasian mountains, while ''Prunus salicina'' and ''Prunus simonii'' originated in China. Plum remains have been found in Neolithic age archaeological sites along with olives, grapes and figs. According to Ken Albala, plums originated in Iran. They were brought to Britain from Asia. An article on plum tree cultivation in Andalusia (southern Spain) appears in Ibn al-'Awwam's 12th-century agricultural work, ''Book on Agriculture''. Etymology and names The name plum derived from Old English ''plume'' "plum, plum tree", borrowed from Germanic language, Germanic or Middle Dutch, derived from Latin ' and ultimately from Ancient Greek ''proumno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
