Springdale Public Schools

Pete speaks to Trent Jones, director of communications at Springdale public schools, about their upcoming 2023 Back to School Rally. The 2023 Back to School Rally is a free event for Springdale school district students, families, teachers and district staff. There are 10,000 first-come-first serve tickets available, and the rally will include activities for all ages and information for Springdale school district parents. It will be taking place on September 13, starting at 5:00 p.m.

Escalating gun violence on U.S. public school campuses is prompting districts in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley this fall to hire more police-affiliated School Resource Officers —SROs for short. Springdale Schools are nearly doubling school campus security forces, with Fayetteville Public Schools aiming to have armed security on all sixteen school campuses. The Arkansas School Safety Grant Program is providing funding to applicant districts to expand law enforcement.

Yesterday Ozarks Electric Cooperative, Springdale Public Schools and Today's power celebrated the creation of a solar array at Sonora Middle School. The resulting power can help the school district offset some of its power use.

Some of Arkansas PBS' Rise and Shine lessons will be presented by six Arkansas Teachers of the Year including Joel Lookadoo from the Springdale Public…

Jared Middleton, a teacher with the Springdale Public School District, is concerned about overreach that could limit educators' ability to teach the…

Springdale Public Schools is partnering with Ozarks Electric Cooperative and Today’s Power Inc. on a new 2.4 megawatt solar facility near Sonora Middle…

A Springdale teacher has resigned after administrators were made aware of a video in which the teacher berates a student for acting like Marshallese…

House Bill 1451, which was filed by Arkansas Rep. Megan Godfrey, D-Springdale, would allow schools and districts to adopt bilingual and dual immersion…

Two days before the Thanksgiving holiday, the superintendent of the Springdale School District announced all schools would be pivoting to remote learning…

In the Springdale School District, substitutes who can typically take a job at any school, are being assigned to a building this year as a way to limit…