by - June 8, 2015 5:06 pm
A study group recommended changing the state’s Common Core test provider before it made its other recommendations because of timing issues and certainty, the group’s chairman, Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin, told legislators.
by - June 8, 2015 12:12 pm
The Arkansas Department of Education will terminate its contract with the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, the end-of-the-year test associated with the Common Core State Standards,…
by - June 2, 2015 8:00 pm
The Libertarian Party of Arkansas submitted 15,709 signatures to the secretary of state’s office Tuesday – far more than the 10,000 needed to qualify for the ballot. Dr. Michael Pakko,…
by - May 29, 2015 3:51 pm
Editor’s note: The City Wire contributed to this report. As of Friday morning (May 29), six of the 13 locks on the Arkansas portion of the Arkansas River system were…
by - May 29, 2015 3:22 pm
On Friday, Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed into law bills passed during the legislative special session and announced that five counties have been aded to the state’s disaster declaration after taking…
by - May 28, 2015 7:08 pm
A research fellow from Stanford’s Hoover Institution told Arkansas lawmakers that a 1332 waiver provided options and boundaries for altering the state’s health care system.
by - May 27, 2015 7:11 pm
Former President Bill Clinton alternative and more efficient energy, tax credits, and more broadband access would help areas along the Mississippi Delta enjoy more economic growth.
by - May 27, 2015 6:29 pm
A new version of the 2012 federal highway authorization law quickly could be passed with few changes out of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark.,…
by - May 27, 2015 3:40 pm
Rural areas create much of America’s wealth and could better share in that wealth if they took advantage of their resources and created better environments for job creators, Rep. Bruce…
by - May 27, 2015 8:29 am
Entrepreneur Max Farrell is spending this week sitting on the passenger side of an 18-wheeler traveling from Des Moines to Los Angeles, hoping to gain insights for a phone app he believes will help trucking companies better communicate with and retain their drivers.
by - May 26, 2015 8:53 pm
Improving relationships with Cuba will help that country and Arkansas, Sen. John Boozman said Tuesday, while Gov. Asa Hutchinson said that merging the Arkansas Department of Rural Services into the…
by - May 26, 2015 2:09 pm
A Baptist Health pilot program is assessing how mobile technology will improve diabetes patient management in Central Arkansas with help from a $427,000 grant in funds and technology from the…
by - May 21, 2015 2:58 pm
A bill filed in Congress Thursday by U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman would transfer part of the money used to pay for Arkansas’ private option to the Highway Trust Fund. The…
by - May 20, 2015 6:13 pm
Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, could offer Arkansas wide latitude in designing its state-based health insurance exchange, including potentially moving Medicaid recipients onto the…
by - May 19, 2015 5:22 pm
Faced with the expiration of the federal highway funding law and the impending insolvency of the federal Highway Trust Fund, the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday passed the stopgap Highway…
by - May 19, 2015 4:04 pm
Regnat Populus, the citizens group whose efforts led to the passage of the so-called ethics amendment in 2014, and other groups will attempt to pass an initiated act requiring Arkansas…
by - May 13, 2015 4:16 pm
The co-chairs of the Legislature’s Health Reform Legislative Task Force plan to recommend that a contract with a consultant not be offered, a week after a bare majority of the…
by - May 12, 2015 7:59 am
They’re trading one Rex for another. Dr. Rex Horne, the 15th president of Ouachita Baptist University since 2006, is resigning his position effective this summer to become president of Arkansas’…
by - May 11, 2015 11:42 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson will convene a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly primarily to address the state’s pursuit of an economic superproject in South Arkansas.
by - May 11, 2015 10:28 am
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will build a 71,636-square-foot visual arts and applied design building thanks to a $20.6 million donation Monday from the Siloam Springs-based Windgate Charitable…
