Arkansas Department of Education

A new state report shows enrollment in Arkansas’s Education Freedom Account program nearly tripled in its second year, with parents reporting high satisfaction and most participants remaining in the program. Critics, however, question whether the taxpayer-funded vouchers benefit students who were already in private schools.

The Arkansas Department of Education is adjusting its School Readiness Assistance program, raising copayments for families starting Oct. 1 while delaying reimbursement rate changes for providers until Nov. 1.

A proposal that would give the government more oversight on libraries and public television advanced in a legislative committee yesterday. The bill would transfer the powers of the Arkansas Educational Television Commission and the State Library Board to the Department of Education.The bill passed committee with just one dissenter. It now moves to the full Senate.

A recent study found no significant impact of Solution Tree's program on student achievement in Arkansas schools. Solution Tree's CEO criticized the study, but the author defends their methods.

Earlier this month, the Arkansas Department of Education terminated a proposed $99 million contract with the company Solution Tree. CEO Jeff Jones said it seems to them that the scope of the project was changing.

A proposal by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ administration would cut funding for 14 of the state’s 15 education service cooperatives by more than $4 million for the 2025 fiscal year.

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently announced two new appointments to the Arkansas State Library Board. But what authority does the Arkansas State Library Board have? And how does it impact your neighborhood library?

Each year, the Arkansas Department of Education assigns each public school in the state a letter grade. This year's batch of report cards is now public and Sarah McKenzie, the executive director of the Office for Education Policy at the University of Arkansas, visits the Susan and Anthony Hui News Studio to help make sense of the grades.

A new scholarship through the Arkansas Community Foundation has been set up to award a student at Little Rock Central who excels in the AP African American Studies course.

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ cornerstone piece of education legislation is the LEARNS Act. We hear from two of the schools who will begin implementing the school vouchers this coming school year.