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Dollarway School District No. 2 [2] (DSD) was a school district headquartered in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. [3] With over 1,600 students and employing more than 300 educators and staff, the district had three active school campuses at the end of its life.
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff recently opened a $3 million business incubator in downtown Pine Bluff. [48] Also, a new $2 million farmers market pavilion was opened in 2010 on Lake Pine Bluff in downtown Pine Bluff. [49] Shirley Washington is the first female African American mayor. She was elected in 2016. [50]
In 2017 the State of Arkansas removed Pine Bluff High from a list of schools in academic distress. [7] The attendance boundary map of Pine Bluff High remained the same for the 2021–2022 school year, when the Pine Bluff district will absorb the DSD and begin operating Dollarway High School. [8] In 2023, the high school had 583 students. [9]
The Biden administration sent a letter to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders last month saying Arkansas had underfunded the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff by more than $330 million over the last 30 ...
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was authorized in 1873 by the Reconstruction-era legislature as the Branch Normal College and opened in 1875 with Joseph Carter Corbin principal. A historically black college, it was nominally part of the "normal" (education) department of Arkansas Industrial University, later the University of Arkansas.
Rison, officially the City of Rison, is a city in and the county seat of Cleveland County, [3] Arkansas, United States. Its population was 1,344 at the 2010 U.S. census. [4] It is included in the Pine Bluff, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area. Rison is a bedroom community for people who work in Pine Bluff (in neighboring Jefferson County).
KPBQ-FM (101.3 FM) was an American radio station licensed to serve Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. The station was owned by Community Broadcast Group Inc. and licensed to M.R.S. Ventures, Inc. The station was assigned the KPBQ-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 14, 1989. [2]
Prior to the Brown v Board of Education decision in 1954, Arkansas law required school districts to maintain separate schools for black and white students. [1]The Dollarway School District initially did not operate high schools, and black students went onwards to Merrill High School of the Pine Bluff School District. [2]