The Arkansas Board of Education will consider emergency rules today establishing a process for distributing state funding to the private and parochial schools that are participating in the new Educational Freedom Account voucher program.
Beau McCastlain, a television production teacher at De Queen High School and communications director for the De Queen School District, was named Monday as the 2024 Arkansas Teacher of the Year.
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.
Arkansas Education Secretary Jacob Oliva on Friday offered assurances to the state Board of Education that much work has been done and more is underway to carry out the terms of the new LEARNS Act revisions to pre-kindergarten through 12th grade education.