Math, science, art camps offered; State school in Hot Springs accepting student applications
HOT SPRINGS -- The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts is now accepting applications for Summer@ASMSA camps.
HOT SPRINGS -- The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts is now accepting applications for Summer@ASMSA camps.
More than 127,000 of Arkansas' 473,000 public school students — including charter school students — missed at least 18 days of school in 2021-22, according to …
The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District on Tuesday gave the green light to construction costs for additions to Mills University Studies…
Forty-six percent of Arkansas' open-enrollment and conversion charter schools have D- or F state-applied letter grades, as do 32% of public schools overall, in…
Friday will be a regular school day for Little Rock School District students, which is a change from a previously scheduled day off and a reflection of school …
Moves by the state toward merit teacher pay, expanded school choice options, a new student testing program and a reconfigured A-to-F school grading system were…
The window for most state-required testing of Arkansas students in grades three through 10 is being extended by one week into later in May, the Arkansas Depart…
The Pulaski County Special and Jacksonville/North Pulaski school districts are proposing an 80/20 split of unspent money from the soon-to-end Dr. Charles W. Do…
The Little Rock School District, which is in the early stages of systematically planning for its future, is asking those associated with the district and the L…
LITTLE ROCK -- The Little Rock School District, which is in the early stages of systematically planning for its future, is asking those associated with the dis…
Nearly one in four Arkansas' 258 public school districts -- 24% -- experienced "extreme chronic absenteeism" in the 2021-22 school year, meaning that 30% or mo…
Arkansas' new Child ID Program is designed to help law enforcement agencies find children who are reported missing.
The application period will open in April for Arkansas families that want to attain for the first time state-funded vouchers of more than $6,800 per year for t…
U.S. Senate Youth Program names 2
Arkansas school districts scheduled to provide at least 1,068 hours of in-person instruction during the course of the current school year will not necessarily …
Arkansas' education leaders are split on whether remote, online days of student instruction should count toward the minimum 178 student-teacher contact days pe…
The application period will open in April for Arkansas families that want to attain for the first time state-funded vouchers of more than $6,800 per year for t…
Expansion of the Mills University Studies High School campus -- including an arena and 10 classrooms -- should be completed for the 2024-25 school year despite…
The current students are Jacksonville High Titans, but their predecessors -- the Red Devils and Falcons at the old Jacksonville and North Pulaski high schools,…
Equity discussion set at NLR campus
Air temperatures that nudged against 40 degrees on Thursday did not eliminate all cold weather-related problems for the state's public and private schools, man…
The Little Rock School District is using this new calendar year to amp up efforts to recruit new students for the coming 2024-25 school year.
The Arkansas Board of Education on Thursday cited the accreditation status of seven high schools for failing to test at least 95% of their students last spring.
Arkansas public schools that earned Ds and Fs after the administration of the state-required ACT Aspire tests can expect to be called to present their set of c…
The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District voted late Tuesday to take to the presiding judge in a long-running school desegregation case a…
Cherie Labat, selected in May 2023 to be chief executive officer of eStem Public Charter Schools in Little Rock, died Tuesday after an illness, school system l…
The Little Rock School Board at its Thursday meeting will review proposals from the superintendent for cutting as much as $16 million from operating expenses i…
Board to discuss 7 schools' testing
Annual enrollment among Arkansas' public, private and home schools continues to seesaw, a trend that began with the covid-19 global pandemic and continues in p…
Past and present holders of government offices, once renowned college athletes, judges and attorneys, physicians, faith leaders, restaurateurs, media giants, c…
Smith a finalist for post in Ohio
A public hearing is set for 9 a.m., Jan. 3, on draft rules for carrying out two new student tutoring programs that are intended to accelerate student literacy …
The number of Arkansas school systems that have switched to a nontraditional school year schedule -- particularly to four days a week -- has grown from one dis…
The Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel on Tuesday picked out several academically-struggling, open-enrollment charter schools to report to the panel early next…
The Haas Hall Academy @ the Lane in Rogers is further along its track to change locations as the result of action Tuesday by the Arkansas Charter Authorizing P…
State board OKs new charter schools
The Arkansas Board of Education on Friday denied a petition by the Cossatot River School District to close its Umpire kindergarten-through-12th grade campus.
The Arkansas Board of Education on Friday approved waivers of some rules and regulations for the Marvell-Elaine School District that is the state's first tradi…
United Cerebral Palsy of Arkansas is partnering with Mills University Studies High in the Pulaski County Special School District to establish the Academy of So…
The Little Rock School Board on Thursday voted — but not without some sharp words — to proceed with the construction of a 1,200-seat traditional high school on…
The Pulaski County Special School District is once again allowing its nearly 12,000 students to hold Central Arkansas Library System technology cards -- but it…
Little Rock School District leaders have refined their recommendations for using campuses and growing student enrollment, as well as cutting expenses, in the c…
The Arkansas Board of Education will consider at its meeting Friday requests for waivers of some state laws and rules from the Marvell-Elaine School District, …
Should there be a change in the Pulaski County Special School District's position that bars student use of Central Arkansas Library "technology cards," the alt…
Little Rock School District leaders on Thursday narrowed the scope of plans for repurposing some campuses to increase efficiency and cut costs but made no fina…
After spending November asking Little Rock School District residents to generate and react to ideas for saving money and using school campuses more efficiently…
When only one ballot is marked and counted in an "election by candidate" in an Arkansas school election, it can be evident how the singular candidate voted.
The Little Rock School District is inviting members of the public to spend their lunch hours viewing performances by district students, starting 12:30 p.m. tod…
The Pulaski County Special School District this school year has not allowed its nearly 12,000 students to hold Central Arkansas Library System "technology card…