Pulaksi County Election Commission certifies results of Nov. 14 school elections
The Pulaski County Election Commission on Tuesday made official the results from the Nov. 14 school elections in the Little Rock School District as well as in …
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LRSD 2024-25 registration for new, magnet students underway
Registration is underway now through Dec. 8 for students who will be new to the Little Rock School District or are current students who want to move to magnet …
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State grades Arkansas public schools
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is publishing today the 2023 state-applied A-to-F letter grades and the 2022 and 2023 Every Student Succeeds Act numerical scores…
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EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: Five teachers receive Impact awards | State Department of Education recognizes communities for reading initiatives
Math school lauds educators in state
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Campus closures studied by Little Rock School District
Little Rock Superintendent Jermall Wright said Friday that district staff will use the Thanksgiving holiday to begin assembling proposals for possibly closing …
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Subscriber ExclusiveBoard holds off on approving increased price tag for west Little Rock high school
A decision on a $153.6 million price tag for a 1,200-student traditional high school in west Little Rock didn't happen Thursday.
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Panel endorses charter school Institute for the Creative Arts in Fort Smith
The Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel on Tuesday endorsed plans for an arts-themed open-enrollment charter high school to be located on the Arkansas River-fro…
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Little Rock School District voters elect a new member
Anna Strong’s path to election Tuesday to the Little Rock School Board’s Zone 5 seat took an unusual twist, but she won in the contest with Donnally Davis whos…
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Charter panel endorses schools for Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Russellville
The Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel on Tuesday endorsed plans for an arts-infused open-enrollment charter high school to be located on the Arkansas River fr…
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School elections underway in several Arkansas districts Tuesday
Polling places are open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Little Rock School Board’s Zone 5 where Anna Strong is actively seeking election to the boar…
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Blue Cross picks 75 schools for ‘calming rooms’
Seventy-five Arkansas schools have been selected to receive $2,500 each from Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield to open "calming rooms" on their campuses for …
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School votes set Tuesday in Little Rock, elsewhere in state
Tuesday is school board/millage election day in those Arkansas school districts that hold their school-related elections in November as opposed to the spring o…
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Education notebook: Donation boosts Hope ag education
Donation boosts Hope ag education
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Board votes to merge Little Rock's West High School of Innovation, Hall STEAM Magnet High School
The Little Rock School Board voted 6-2 Thursday night to combine the West High School of Innovation on Ranch Drive with the Hall STEAM Magnet High School on Ha…
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Little Rock school board mulls merger of West School of Innovation with Hall High
Little Rock West School of Innovation students will be relocated to the Hall STEAM Magnet High School campus for the 2024-25 school year and beyond -- if the S…
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Griffin says clarification needed on whether AMI days count towards required minimum school days
Public school districts "probably" can't count alternative methods of instruction days toward the minimum 178 school days the districts need to qualify for tea…
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Ideas flow in to Little Rock School District on improvements
More than 80 individuals and groups have submitted dozens of ideas to the Little Rock School District for cutting millions of dollars in expenses while increas…
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A one-time $615 “retention bonus” will be paid to all eligible Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District employees
Employees in the Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District will see a bump in their Nov. 17 paychecks.
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2 Central Arkansas districts will hold school board elections, sort of
Nov. 14 is -- but isn't -- school board election day in the North Little Rock and Pulaski County Special school districts.
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LRSD candidate still on ballot after exiting
Early voting begins Tuesday in a Little Rock School District election that features unopposed incumbent Vicki Hatter for the School Board's Zone 6 seat and two…
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163 of state’s public schools to receive $6.95M in rewards
A total of 163 of Arkansas' more than 1,000 public schools will receive $6,950,900 in rewards for high student achievement and/or improvement on the ACT Aspire…
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Arkansas Department of Education names schools to receive $6,950,900 for achievement, improvement
A total of 163 Arkansas public schools — including charter schools — are newly identified as recipients of $6,950,900 in rewards for student achievement and/o…
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PBS sweater drive begins this month
Arkansas PBS has joined with more than 80 other organizations -- including community libraries, Walmart and Honda World of Conway -- to sponsor this year's Mis…
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Subscriber ExclusiveNorthwest Arkansas' public school enrollment up 0.9% this year
BENTONVILLE -- Northwest Arkansas' public school enrollment rose 0.9% this fall from the same time last year, led by growth in the region's charter schools.
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Applications open for kitchen supplies
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture is accepting school applications through Dec. 8 for Farm to School Kitchen Equipment grants.
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Cross County School District district, group given grant
A rural Arkansas school district and an organization that supports rural school systems and charter schools throughout the state are recipients of 2023 federal…
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5,000 students get vouchers from Arkansas' Educational Freedom Account program
Arkansas' new Educational Freedom Account program of public funding for tuition and other private school costs is funding about 5,000 students and can take 1,5…
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West Memphis School Board sued over interviews for post
Two residents of West Memphis are suing the West Memphis School District and its School Board alleging a violation of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act i…
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EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: Bald Knob district hires David Bangs
Bald Knob district hires David Bangs
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Leader of LRSD requests saving ideas from public
Faced with budget cuts of up to $15 million beginning in the 2024-25 school year, Little Rock Superintendent Jermall Wright is asking the community at large fo…
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Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel approves new Garfield Scholars' Academy charter school
The Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel voted 4-0 Tuesday to approve the establishment of the Garfield Scholars' Academy, an open-enrollment charter school for …
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History names Benton's Pam Cummings as Arkansas' 2023 History Teacher of the Year
Pam Cummings, a government and history teacher at Benton High School, has been named the state’s 2023 History Teacher of the Year, an award presented by the Gi…
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Scott Field track in Little Rock reopens to public, but under certain guidelines
The Little Rock School District has announced times that the Scott Field track, adjacent to Forest Heights STEM Academy, will be open to the public for use.
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Charter panel endorses Garfield Scholars' Academy in Northwest Arkansas
The Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel voted 4-0 Tuesday to approve the establishment of the Garfield Scholars’ Academy, an open-enrollment charter school for …
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Education notebook
State board looks
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Education news in brief
State board looks
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Arkansas Board of Education OKs rules for school safety, Educational Freedom Account voucher payments
The Arkansas Board of Education on Friday approved a final set of rules for school safety, clearing the way for school systems to be reimbursed by the state fo…
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Subscriber ExclusiveConstruction of new Little Rock School District schools raises concerns about fate of existing campuses
Construction of new schools in the Little Rock School District is raising questions about the fate of existing campuses.
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Arkansas board takes up emergency rules on private school voucher payments
The Arkansas Board of Education will consider emergency rules today establishing a process for distributing state funding to the private and parochial schools …
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State’s 18.6 composite ACT score lags nation’s 19.5
Students in Arkansas' high school Class of 2023 earned a composite score of 18.6 on the ACT college entrance exam, down 0.2 point from the 18.8 earned by the s…
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Arkansas' ACT college entrance exam scores are lowest in at least a decade
Students in Arkansas' high school Class of 2023 earned a composite score of 18.6 on the ACT college entrance exam — the lowest composite score in at least 10 y…
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Pulaski County Special School District board discusses what to do with vacant Jacksonville campus, meal debt
Pulaski County Special School District leaders on Tuesday grappled with the disparate problems of what to do with a fire-ravaged school campus located in anoth…
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Little Rock School District to host college night
The 49th annual College Night event is for students throughout Central Arkansas. It will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Jack Stephens Event Center on the Univ…
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De Queen educator Beau McCastlain honored
Beau McCastlain, a television production teacher at De Queen High School and communications director for the De Queen School District, was named Monday as the …
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De Queen High School teacher named Arkansas Teacher of the Year
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva announced McCastlain's selection in a Monday trip they made to the campus.
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Report: 4,795 in state using school vouchers
The families of 324 kindergarten-through-12th grade students at Little Rock Christian Academy are accessing public taxpayer funds to pay tuition at the 1,665-s…
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Jacksonville/North Pulaski board approves bond sale, 2024 eclipse day off
The School Board for the Jacksonville/North Pulaski School District on Monday approved the sale of $15,035,000 in construction bonds at an interest rate of 4.6…
