State legislators met in Little Rock yesterday to discuss various education-related issues, including increasing minimum salaries for teachers in the state and operating public schools more like charter schools. New enrollment numbers for the Arkansas Private Option continue to come in near projections. Officials with the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department say that the Highway 62 Bypass today will begin to steer drivers away from having to drive through the center of Prairie Grove. A University of Arkansas research partnership gets another federal transportation grant to study waterway-related issues, and John Brown University again gets favorable marks in a national ranking.
0000017d-2122-dd26-adfd-e56710b50000The New Classroom is a special reporting series, supported by The Walton Family Foundation, exploring the struggles, changes and innovations in education during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can find reports in this series listed below.
