Proposed Fiscal Session Budget Cuts Endanger Children in Foster Care
Potentially devastating budget cuts – now under consideration at the state legislature – would endanger children in foster care and halt the progress we were just starting to make to […]
The Future of Arkansas’s Education System Depends on Funding “Arkansas Works”
The state general revenue budget is often fluid. To arrive at a forecast, you look at long-term trends, national trends, local economic conditions … those calculations will tell you within […]
Time for a Change: Reforming the Juvenile Justice System
The Arkansas Youth Justice Reform Board will soon release its recommendations for reforming the state’s juvenile justice system. Last week the State of Kansas showed us that real change might […]
Update – Managed Care in Arkansas: Access, Costs, and Quality Matter
Since we first examined the managed care issue in 2015, a few important developments have occurred. In December 2015, the Health Reform Legislative Task Force released its preliminary report, and […]
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Appoints New Board Members
Little Rock (March 22, 2016) – Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is pleased to announce the appointment of six new members and four officers to its board of […]
State agencies asked to do more with less
Tax cuts from the two most recent legislative sessions are making for modest forecasts and eating away at state agency budgets. The joint budget committee met today to go over […]
ICYMI: Racial Disparities Remain in Arkansas School Discipline Practices
As a result of legislation that Arkansas Advocates and the Arkansas Opportunity to Learn Campaign pushed for in 2013 (Act 1329), the state of Arkansas has since reviewed school discipline […]
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 […]
Small surpluses will foil highway plan
The modest $35.9 million surplus forecast for the state’s 2016 budget is an ominous sign for the governor’s highway plan (which will require at least $192 million a year in […]