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.
Stories by Cynthia Howell
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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…
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Subscriber ExclusivePulaski County districts’ shift to academies booms
Five years into its implementation, a plan to transform Pulaski County's traditional high schools into college-preparatory and career academies -- where core a…
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Pulaski County schools budget to tap reserves
The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District on Thursday approved a 2023-24 budget that anticipates drawing almost $4 million from reserve f…
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Pulaski County Special board OKs schools' budget, expects to use $4M in reserve funds
The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District on Thursday approved a 2023-24 budget that anticipates drawing almost $4 million from reserve f…
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Arkansas schools’ letter grades show little improvement from 2022; Search to find out how your school fared
Letter grades applied by the state to Arkansas schools as a gauge of school quality are largely unchanged from 2022 and remain below results from the pre-pande…
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Search for your Arkansas school's letter grade
A total of 80 of Arkansas' 1,069 traditional and charter schools earned a state-applied letter grade of an "A" based largely on results from last spring's ACT…
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Charter schools in Northwest Arkansas endorsed
The Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel has endorsed plans for two open-enrollment charter schools in Northwest Arkansas, bringing to four the number of new cha…
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Subscriber ExclusivePulaski County school districts see growth, losses
Early student head count numbers in Pulaski County's traditional school districts are a mixed bag, with the Little Rock and North Little Rock school districts …
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Subscriber ExclusiveLRSD gets OK for solar project
The Little Rock School Board on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to add solar energy to the mix of the district's utility resources as a way to reduce cost…
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Subscriber ExclusiveLittle Rock School Board approves solar project for district
The Little Rock School Board on Thursday unanimously approved a plan to add solar energy to the mix of the district's utility resources as a way to reduce cost…
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Arkansas school’s program offers support for gifted seventh-graders
The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, a residential public high school in Hot Springs, has initiated a Talent Identification Program for …
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Subscriber ExclusiveOliva addresses board on teacher licensure
Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva last week broached with state Board of Education members the idea of expanding the ways teacher candidates can attain …
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Subscriber ExclusiveLEARNS Act implementation ongoing, Arkansas education secretary tells board
Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva on Friday offered assurances to the state Board of Education that much work has been done and more is underway to carr…
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127 National Merit semifinalists in state
A total of 127 Arkansas high school seniors are among some 16,000 students nationally to be recently named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists.
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Little Rock School Board to consider proposal to add solar power to the district’s energy sources
The Little Rock School Board is expected to take action as soon as its Sept. 21 meeting on a proposal to add solar energy to the mix of the district's utility …
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Online panel discussion on student loan debt set for Friday
The Arkansas Public Policy Panel, in partnership with the Center for Arkansas Legal Services, is hosting a virtual panel discussion on student loan debt and re…
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Little Rock School Board to review spring's ACT Aspire results during work session
The Little Rock School Board at a work session Thursday will review results of the ACT Aspire test scores from the spring.
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Subscriber ExclusiveNew law expands free school meals in state
Legislation passed earlier this year is easing expenses for thousands of Arkansas public school families whose children are typically eligible for reduced-pric…
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Subscriber ExclusivePulaski County schools’ ’23 test results mixed
Pulaski County's four traditional public school districts started this new school year carrying forward a mix of results from last spring's ACT Aspire exams in…
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Education notebook: Voucher rules comments due
Voucher rules comments due
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Public comments divided on rules for LEARNS Act’s private school voucher program
A hearing Friday evening on draft rules for carrying out the state's new Educational Freedom Account Program drew almost 40 people who were split on the taxpay…
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Little Rock board supports AP African American studies
The Advanced Placement African American Studies course being piloted for a second year at Little Rock Central High has the support of the Little Rock School Bo…
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AP African American Studies course gets Little Rock School Board's unanimous support
The Advanced Placement African-American Studies course being piloted for a second year at Little Rock Central High School has the unanimous support of the Litt…
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LRSD Board to vote on resolution in support of AP African American Studies course
The School Board for the Little Rock district -- a district that is teaching the Advanced Placement African American Studies course and has been told to produc…
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Subscriber ExclusiveSchool vouchers to be used outside of Arkansas
A private school in Tennessee is among the more than 90 private schools authorized by the Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to accept Ark…
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Donnally Davis withdraws from Little Rock School Board race
Donnally Davis, who filed Wednesday as a candidate for the Little Rock School Board’s Zone 5 seat, said Friday that she is withdrawing from the race, leaving A…
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Springdale-based charter school that would provide digital, in-person instruction rejected
The Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel on Thursday rejected an application for a Springdale-based open-enrollment charter school that would provide a mix of di…
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Arkansas panel rejects charter application in Springdale, defers action on Benton County school
The Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel on Thursday rejected Andrew Curry's application for a Springdale-based open-enrollment charter school, citing a lack of …
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Subscriber ExclusiveProposed Bentonville school gets OK from charter authorizing panel
The proposed Bentonville School for Advanced Studies, a liberal arts charter school that would serve grades five through 12, was approved Wednesday by the Arka…
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Two file for LR Zone 5 school board position
Two people are vying for the Little Rock School Board's Zone 5 position that is now held by Ali Noland.
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Arkansas panel endorses Bentonville charter school, delays action for Fort Smith campus
The Arkansas Charter Authorizing Panel on Wednesday approved a proposed liberal arts charter school that would serve grades five through 12 in Bentonville, but…
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As deadline ends, candidates file for school board seats in Little Rock, North Little Rock and Pulaski County Special district elections
Two people are vying for the Little Rock School Board's Zone 5 position that is now held by Ali Noland.
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Subscriber ExclusiveCharter panel OKs Academy of Math and Science in southwest Little Rock
The state Charter Authorizing Panel on Tuesday endorsed the proposed Academy of Math and Science -- Arkansas, an open-enrollment charter school that would serv…
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Subscriber Exclusive2023-24 school year kicks off Monday amid changes, innovations in Arkansas education
The 2023-24 school year that begins Monday for most kindergarten-through-12th grade students will be a baseline year for myriad changes and innovations in Arka…
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Education notebook
No tax vote for now in NLRSD
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Education board hears how state intends to address flagging literacy and math scores
Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva and his staff on Thursday set the stage for the work that state and district educators will be doing in the 2023-24 sc…
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Subscriber ExclusiveNorth Little Rock vote on raising school tax rate eyed
The North Little Rock School Board is considering whether to put a proposed tax increase ranging from 2.6 mills to 5.6 mills on the November school election ba…
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School Board filing period begins Wednesday for November elections
School board filing period set to begin
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Virtual academy holds open house at new Little Rock hub
LITTLE ROCK -- Teachers, administrators, parents, students and supporters affiliated with the Arkansas Virtual Academy charter school rarely gather in person, …
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Virtual academy holds open house at new LR hub
Teachers, administrators, parents, students and supporters affiliated with the Arkansas Virtual Academy charter school rarely gather in person, but as many as …
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Gov. Sanders' children don't qualify for Arkansas' Educational Freedom Accounts
The three school-aged children of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and first gentleman Bryan Sanders are not eligible for the state’s Educational Freedom Accounts d…
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More than 80 of Arkansas' private and parochial schools apply for vouchers
More than 80 of Arkansas' private and parochial schools have applied to date to participate in the state's new Educational Freedom Account Program, enabling el…
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Education notebook: A new AEA president | National Merit Scholar from LR Central High | PCSSD to meet at Mills High
Special ed teacher heads teacher union
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Arkansas schools' 2023 ACT test scores show 'little to no' improvement from 2019, report says
Student results from the 2023 ACT Aspire exams "show little to no rebound" when compared with 2019 results, state officials said Thursday.
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State releases some information about Arkansas' 2023 ACT Aspire test results
Student results from the 2023 ACT Aspire exams "show little to no rebound" when compared to the 2019 results that are used as a baseline to measure achievement…
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Imboden charter school will move
The Imboden Area Charter School in Lawrence County, one of the state's oldest open-enrollment charter schools, is planning a change in its address.
