CONWAY — Randy Davison believes it's time for the Conway School Board "to do the right thing educationally," and that means moving the Conway School District's sixth-graders into Kennett Middle.
Davison made a motion at Monday night's board meeting to make Kennett a true 6-8 middle school, but his colleagues voted to table it for two weeks to better prepare to discuss it
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