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Tinsel and Tutus @ Reynolds Performance Hall — 12/12/13
12/12 — The Conway Symphony Orchestra entertained with Christmas music, including highlights from The Nutcracker performed by the Arkansas Festival Ballet.
While acknowledging the tragedy of the Woodmore Elementary School bus crash on Nov. 21, Hamilton County Schools and Durham School Services are arguing in separate filings that the federal class-action lawsuit filed against them in December should be dismissed.
Hamilton County Schools filed a 33-page response to the lawsuit Friday, shifting responsibility for the crash onto Durham, the company contracted to provide busing services to the district and employer of the 24-year-old bus driver Johnthony Walker.
The class-action lawsuit claims Hamilton County Schools, district Transportation Supervisor Ben Coulter and Durham School Services each failed to take reasonable precautions to prevent the tragedy and had a pattern of ignoring rules and regulations, leaving children in danger.
A response filed for Hamilton County and Coulter claims that no “affirmative actions” were taken that made students unsafe. The district and Coulter cannot be held responsible for failing to take action, regardless of any complaints they may have received about the driver being unsafe or alleged failures to enforce rules relating to bus safety, speed and reporting of injuries, the response claims.