Pre-K: Access to Success in Arkansas
Research continues to confirm the importance of high-quality early childhood education as a strategy for improving the social, emotional, and intellectual development of children as well as increasing the likelihood […]
An Arkansas Student Bill of Rights – Giving Students the Opportunity to Learn
Executive Summary: Download the executive summary for a brief overview of the full report. Over the last two decades, standards-based education reform has led the march toward accountability, high-stakes testing, […]
A Citizen’s Guide to Arkansas Public School Financing
A quality K-12 education is critical to the future well-being of Arkansas’s children. The benefits of a high-quality education, or the negative impacts brought about by the opposite, will affect […]
Analyzing the Success of Arkansas’s Charter Schools – Unfulfilled Promises
A joint report by AACF, The Arkansas Public Policy Panel, and The Arkansas Education Association. An analysis of Arkansas benchmark test scores from the 2008‐09 academic year shows that open […]
Arkansas Schools Stockpiling Millions Intended for Poor Students
Arkansas schools routinely fail to spend millions of dollars meant to help their poorest students catch up to their peers, according to an analysis of education spending data by Arkansas […]
Afterschool is Key!
The 2006 report After School Programs in Arkansas: A Solution Whose Time has Come outlined the positive impacts that afterschool and summer programs have by keeping children safe, supporting working […]
Enriching Arkansas Children’s Lives Through High-Quality Out-Of-School Activities
The Task Force recommends that Arkansas take the following actions to support expanded access to quality after-school and summer programs across the state. Promote quality by: Using the framework for […]
The Demand for After-School Programs in Arkansas
Half of 3,700 Arkansas children recently surveyed said they were unsupervised after school on a regular basis, according to a new report by students from the University of Arkansas Clinton […]
ARRA Funding for Education in Arkansas: A Jump Start for Moving from Adequacy to Excellence
Arkansas has dramatically increased education funding in recent years in order to meet the state Supreme Court’s mandate to provide adequate and equitable education for all students. However, overall academic […]
Improve Parents’ Access to Public School Information
Arkansas has done a great deal to improve data collection and fiscal and academic accountability requirements for public schools in recent years. However, the system has been ineffective in broadly […]