CONWAY — The Conway School Board voted Monday night to extend 14 administrators' contracts and approve a salary increase for most of them.
While they were ultimately approved, some received abstentions from board members when names were brought forward, and in the middle of the reviewing the slate, the board voted 6-0-1 to no longer vote "present" and have to explain their rationale; instead, they will return to simply abstaining.
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