As students head back to school, we thought this was a perfect time to update you on education news in Arkansas. The Arkansas Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (AR-GLR) is launching an initiative to promote school attendance this month...
Economic hardship during childhood is the leading Adverse Childhood Event (ACE) in Arkansas. It is associated with learning and behavioral problems for students early on and can lead to health problems later in life, according to a new report...
As Arkansans rightly celebrate a remarkable decrease in the percentage of the state’s uninsured adults, it’s a good time to reflect on how our state accomplished this feat. It wasn’t just because Arkansas policymakers chose to create the Private...
A group of minority, middle- and low-income parents met in Star City early in June. The subject was Common Core. Most of the parents knew very little about it. Schools throughout the state have done a poor job...
Net general revenues came in below expectations (by $9.8 million or 2.4 percent) and fell short of last year’s numbers (by $7.1 million or 1.7 percent) according to today’s report from the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration. The...
This is a special post from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance The federal government is offering to pay for breakfast and lunch for all students in qualifying school districts starting this fall. All...
Every year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation releases the Kids Count Data Book, a comprehensive, 50-state look at child welfare. Arkansas made gains in health coverage and education over the last year, but the child poverty rate went up...
Poverty guidelines play two important roles, they are a scorecard for how we are doing as a state, and they help determine eligibility for dozens of programs that low-income Arkansans rely on. Because the current guidelines are outdated, they...
Arkansas made gains in health coverage and education over the last year, but the child poverty rate went up to 29 percent. Those ups and downs are consistent with national trends, according to the 25th edition KIDS COUNT Data...
The Office of Education Policy (OEP) at the University of Arkansas shared a new report on school discipline with the State Board of Education this morning. The report’s findings are similar to those found by AACF last year. Almost...