Board Brief

Brown presented three options to the Board:

• Providing a bonus to all full-time employees ($822.14/ eligible employee before taxes)
• Providing a bonus to all certified employees ($1,457.14/eligible employee before taxes)
• Providing a bonus to all certified employees whose school improved a letter grade or maintained an A or B ($1,996.13/eligible employee before taxes)

The story of the North Little Rock Six is largely unheard of as it sits in the shadow of the highly-publicized Little Rock Nine, who famously entered Central High School in Little Rock in 1957. But just across the Arkansas River, in the same year, Eugene Hall, Frank Henderson, William Henderson, Richard Lindsey, Gerald Person, and Harold Smith tried to enter North Little Rock High School. They, too, were met by an angry mob and by the Superintendent, who barred their entrance.

Integration did not occur in the North Little Rock School District until the 1964-1965 school year, beginning with first and second grade students. Finally, twenty black students entered North Little Rock High School in the fall of 1966, in which five black students graduated in the following spring.

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