Trice Visual & Performing Arts Magnet Elementary School students observed Celebrate Freedom Week with the help of Arkansas Rep. Steve Harrelson, D-Texarkana.

“This is the greatest form of government history’s ever known—democracy,” Harrelson told second-, third- and fourth-grade students Thursday.

The Arkansas Legislature created Act 682 in 2003 to designate Celebrate Freedom Week in public schools the last week of September. The law is intended to educate students about the sacrifices made for freedom in the founding of this country and the values on which this countr...

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