... you can name another era where we've made more progress in terms of school improvement in Arkansas," former Sen. Jim Argue said of James, with whom he worked on education reform. James' announcement that he's leaving the Education Department ...

... attorney general. Beebe's cautious pragmatism merits a few paragraphs, including a worthy anecdote. Former state Sen. Jim Argue of Little Rock, a liberal ideologue, recounts pressing Beebe when they were state Senate colleagues to burst through ...

... carries the now-defunct Lake View school district's name thinks that may be easier said than done. Term-limited Sen. Jim Argue said he's not worried the state will immediately lapse into conditions prompting another court fight over whether the ...

... questions unanswered on funding items such as teacher salaries and fuel costs, a legislative leader said Tuesday. Sen. Jim Argue, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, vented frustration with the lack of funding specifics or price tags listed ...

... Senate panel complained that the report studying what it cost to fund schools adequately lacked many key details. Sen. Jim Argue, D-Little Rock, said Wednesday he's now more comfortable with the recommendations because the teacher raises will ...

... care charges, which, magically, would quadruple because of the federal government's 3-to-1 match. State Sen. Jim Argue of Little Rock, famously earnest, was mightily offended by this bed tax. Though primarily designed to open the Medicaid ...

... he took office last year, few were surprised. "That's the basis of the trust level between the two," said Sen. Jim Argue, D-Little Rock. "They were a tag team when they were in the Senate together." Harriman, 57, points out that his ...

... 456 million for a program to repair school facilities and build new ones. Outgoing Senate Education Committee Chairman Jim Argue told a daylong forum studying the impact of the case that the next step will be monitoring where the money that the state ...

... would be needed to pay for it. Abernathy estimated the new transportation category would cost $35 million a year. Sen. Jim Argue, D-Little Rock, said the proposal wouldn't address the additional funds that schools spending less than $286 per ...

... I wish this committee, on this issue, would focus not on what's the minimum we can get by with," said Sen. Jim Argue, D-Little Rock. "I wish the committee would focus on what's the right thing to do here, and the right thing to ...