Why aren’t Arkansas families keeping their health care coverage?
Currently, the health care issues in the forefront are the Private Option (or newly coined Arkansas Works) program and whether we will adopt a Medicaid managed care model, which will […]
Delay Kindergarten? It could be a good idea (if you’re in Denmark).
You may have seen a post on a friend’s Facebook page highlighting this article: “Delayed Kindergarten Enrollment Dramatically Reduces ADHD In Children, Study Shows.” My first thought after seeing the […]
A Spotlight on Achievement Gaps
In light of the attention paid to the achievement gap between white students and students of color during the recent legislative hearing on adequacy (the descriptor for the hearings that […]
Problems down the road with governor’s highway plan
There’s a real need for new highway funding, but without some form of fuel tax increase, millions of new dollars for Arkansas’s roads and bridges means someone is going to […]
AACF statement on governor’s highway funding proposal
Statement from Rich Huddleston, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families: The governor’s plan to fund highways took a smaller than expected bite out of general revenue, but […]
Uninsured rate for Hispanic children twice that of state average
The uninsured rate for Hispanic children in Arkansas (11 percent) is more than double the rate of uninsurance for all children in the state (4.8 percent). A report released by […]
What’s in a “C-”?
The grades are in for the Education Week Quality Counts ratings. They gave Arkansas’s education system a C-, ranking our state 41st in the nation. We want to explain what […]
Special Education Task Force Update
In Arkansas, about one out of every 10 students uses special education services in our K-12 system. We believe that all children should have quality educational experiences regardless of income, […]
Watch this video to find out more about AACF
Find out more about Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families by watching this brief video. In it, we talk about our history, our work, and what has made Advocates what […]
Work requirements for Private Option miss the mark
If you missed the blogs on managed care and private option changes, check those out before reading this final blog in our series on health care reform. Today, we will […]