Sixteen charter schools and charter school systems asked on Friday to give up their waivers of the state teacher salary law to clear the way for getting state funds to raise their beginning teacher salaries to $50,000.
Sixteen charter schools and charter school systems asked on Friday to give up their waivers of the state teacher salary law to clear the way for getting state funds to raise their beginning teacher salaries to $50,000.
A legislative panel on Wednesday granted $54.8 million in spending authority for the state Department of Education to disburse monies from the federal American Rescue Plan s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund to 26 school districts.
The Arkansas Division of Elementary and Secondary Education intends to offer schools and districts some flexibility in how they conduct the upcoming ACT Aspire tests for grades three through 10.
A total of 111 Arkansas schools, or 1 in 10, did not give ACT Aspire exams last spring to at least 95% of students who were supposed to take state- and federally-required, end-of-year tests in math and literacy.