by - April 24, 2020 9:48 am
Arkansas’ K-12 public schools and the state Department of Education will receive almost $129 million from the $2 trillion CARES Act passed last month by Congress. U.S. Secretary of Education…
by - October 31, 2016 6:06 pm
The Joint Committee on Educational Adequacy deadlocked along party lines voting for its required adequacy report Monday, potentially giving Gov. Asa Hutchinson the responsibility for crafting education policies and funding…
by - November 7, 2013 12:16 pm
The reading skills among Arkansas 8th graders have improved between 2013 and 1998, but scores still lag the national average and more than 40% of first-year college and university students…
by - October 3, 2013 2:36 pm
A $32 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund a University of Arkansas effort designed to improve career options for low-income Arkansas teenagers with disabilities. The grant…
by - January 10, 2013 10:15 am
Arkansas’s public education system ranks fifth in the nation according to the latest edition of Education Week’s Quality Counts. The report gives the state high marks in the transitions and…
by - August 10, 2012 3:05 pm
The Arkansas Department of Education has named 19 public schools as 2011 Exemplary Schools. According to the ADE, exemplary schools are those demonstrating high student academic performance, schools with large…
