The latest Friendship Aspire Academy Pine Bluff campus is under construction, but city and school leaders already hold the charter elementary school in high esteem.
A Pine Bluff charter school has ranked among the top 10 elementary schools in the state for statewide English language arts (ELA) growth based on ACT Aspire test performance, despite serving a high percentage of students who participate in free and reduced lunch.
A Pine Bluff charter school has ranked among the top 10 elementary schools in the state for statewide English language arts (ELA) growth based on ACT Aspire test performance, despite serving a high percentage of students who participate in free and reduced lunch.
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State charter panel recommends 2nd campus for Friendship Aspire Academy-Pine Bluff
Panel endorses remote school plans for other charters across Arkansas
by
Cynthia Howell
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July 13, 2021 at 9:09 p.m.
A classroom is shown in this 2015 file photo.
Plans to double the number of Friendship Aspire Academy-Pine Bluff elementary charter school campuses from one to two received preliminary approval Tuesday from the state’s Charter Authorizing Panel.
The panel endorsed the plan for a new kindergarten-through-third-grade campus to be located at 700 S. Main St. in Pine Bluff.
Final approval must come from the state Board of Education, which will act on it later this year.