You are invited to join us for a press conference to release this important report on the current state of education in Arkansas.

This is the first follow-up report since Dr. Jay Barth and Keith A. Nitta published their 2008 report, “Arkansas Education in the Post-Lake View Era: What Is Arkansas Doing to Close the Achievement Gap?”. The report discusses the successes as well as continued challenges to addressing the many inequities that remain in schools across our state.

We hope you will join us for this important event, and will use it as a springboard to continued dialogue about how we can all work together with policymakers to create educational opportunities for all Arkansas’s children.

Who: The Arkansas Opportunity to Learn Campaign, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF), The Arkansas Public Policy Panel (APPP), and other education advocates.

When: Thursday, February 19, at 1:00 p.m.

Where: The Old Supreme Court Room at the Arkansas State Capitol

What: These groups will release a report on the improvements and shortcomings in the state’s education system since the Lake View decision. Arkansas schools are rapidly improving but additional investments would help our students even more.

Speakers: Rich Huddleston, executive director of AACF; Jerri Derlikowski, education policy director at AACF; and Bill Kopsky, executive director at the APPP.