Annual enrollment among Arkansas public, private and home schools continues to seesaw, a trend that began with the covid-19 global pandemic and continues in part as the result of changes in Arkansas law.
The families of 324 kindergarten-through-12th grade students at Little Rock Christian Academy are accessing public taxpayer funds to pay tuition at the 1,665-student private school, according to a new state Department of Education report to lawmakers.
Amid debates over access to library materials and topics discussed in school classrooms, the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site hosted a panel discussion on Saturday titled "The Impact of Banning Books."
I followed with some interest this week a story out of Arkansas, of all places, that brought back long unthought of memories of my junior high school days.