Board strips Little Rock teachers’ union bargaining power

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Board of Education has stripped the bargaining power of the Little Rock teachers’ union and has backed off a plan to only return some local control to the district after facing criticism that the move would divide the system along racial lines.
The board on Thursday ended the Little Rock Education Association’s bargaining power shortly after the panel voted to give control of the 23,000-student district to a board that will be elected in No