Though educators and advocates say they believe the Arkansas Teacher of the Year award is an "esteemed" program meant to showcase the state s best educators, many, including several former winners of the award, recently expressed criticism and confusion over changes to this year s application process.
Though educators and advocates say they believe the Arkansas Teacher of the Year award is an "esteemed" program meant to showcase the state s best educators, many, including several former winners of the award, recently expressed criticism and confusion over changes to this year s application process.
Arkansas Education Association President Carol B. Fleming said Thursday that people who watched Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva s virtual “town hall” about the state’s new omnibus education law "walked away from the event with more questions than ever."
The day after Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva fielded questions at a virtual “town hall” session about the state’s new omnibus education law, the president of the state’s largest teacher union said the answers were inadequate.