Arkansas Learns Updates

By Pablo Valarezo This Town Hall meeting was organized by Gary Newton, who started a non-profit organization called ArkansasLearns. This organization…

On Tuesday, December 4th, 78 Little Rock parents gathered to discuss creation of an open enrollment public charter middle and…

On November 6th, a small group of Little Rock School District parents met with leaders of the Arkansas Parent Network, Arkansas Learns and Arkansans…

Attached is the requested spreadsheet from the Little Rock Police Department regarding calls to the City’s schools and colleges for…

On October 18th, I sent the following invitation to members of the Little Rock School Board and the district’s superintendent…

Reliable conservative estimates hold that over $1.2 billion has been spent on the now 30-year old desegregation lawsuit. Here’s what…

October 29, 2012 Gary Newton, CCEArkansas Learns400 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 1700Little Rock, Arkansas 72201.3438 Re: Creation of a new…

Yesterday (November 1st), in a positive development for excellence in public school choice, the Arkansas Board of Education approved three…

The physician’s Hippocratic Oath should certainly be applicable when it comes to institutions charged with educating our children. From August…

Last week, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Cynthia Howell reported that Representative John Walker, attorney for the class of black students known as the…

Save the Little Rock School District the delay and expense of yet another study by taking and sharing the Little Rock…

Of Arkansas’s 211 middle schools, Little Rock’s seven rank second through eighth in the state’s top ten in per pupil…

Think the direct costs associated with Pre K through 12 public education end with graduation? A high percentage are simply…

Two Little Rock School District elementary schools, Forest Park and Dr. Don R. Roberts, have been named among the state’s…

“It was the best of times (Top Schools in Arkansas), it was the worst of times (Bottom Schools in Arkansas),…

As of May 2009, the last certified contracts posted on the Little Rock School District website, 32 administrators made over $100,000 a year. Of these,…

It’s a new day. The leaves are turning. The air is crisp. The Razorbacks are… The air is crisp. And…

The 2011-12 Teacher Salary Analysis by the Arkansas Department of Education clearly demonstrates the priorities of the state’s 238 public school districts…