“The students who go to charter schools are not those of great need but have support at home and are relatively high achieving.” Little Rock School Board Member Baker Kurras (“Little Rock Board Resisting 6 Charter Schools,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Sept. 28, 2007) (October 2007) The role of at-risk students in the creation of […]
Arkansas educators will insist they already have a report card. They do-for only each district, not school by school. But for Arkansas’ parents and the public to draw any real conclusions about performance from thjs collection of raw data would be almost impossible without a great deal of digging and some analytical sk,11s. Moreover, […]
Author: Mark Witkowski July 2007 Summary: This study relies on Spring 2006 testing data fromArkansas students taking the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills to evaluate the performance of 251 K-12 public school districts. Using a standard distribution, 14 districts earned A or A- grades; 61 districts received 8+, B or 8- grades; 111 districts earned […]
(July 2007) The late Milton Friedman (1912-2006), the 1976 Nobel laureate in economics will be remembered at a July 31 event at 11: 45 a.m. at the Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock. The event, in the first floor auditorium room of the Reynolds Building, will feature a lecture, video of Dr. Friedman and free […]
In 1998, the Murphy Commission, a Policy Foundation project, recommended Arkansas’ 311 school districts should be restructured into not more than 134 administrative units to save tax dollars. Through last summer (2006), 66 districts, more than 20 percent of Arkansas K-12 districts had been restructured. (June 18, 2007) Recent events in Arkansas’ largest […]
ACHIEVING 100 PERCENT in order for Arkansas to move from a low-wage to a high-wage economy, the state needs to decte8se ma,gina/ tax rares… In orcter to attract (high-income) WOrkers to Arkansas.• (Murphy Commission, 1998) (June 2007) A group of Arkansas business and communityleaders have started a project with the ambitious goal of increasing […]
Which Arkansas governor proposed an income tax cut during his tenure in office? William Jefferson Clinton Mike Huckabee Dale Bumpers None Of The Above (May 2007) Imagine an Arkansas governor who proposes cutting the state income tax. One media report describes the legislature’s reaction to the proposal as “only slightly warmer than Little Rock’s high […]
Arkansas should join ·other states and move into the 21st Century as an innovator in the field of education; it should provide a genuine opportunity for charter schools for its children.• Define and implement a system of performance-based pay for all Arkansas state employees and public K-12 employees, including teachers.” (Murphy Commission, 1998, “Making […]
(April 2007) Annualized Arkansas state and local government employment expanded at one of the largest percentage rates this decade in 2006, surpassing private sector job growth for the sixth consecutive year. State and local government employment expanded 2.46 percent last year versus private sector employment growth of 1.76 percent, according to labor market […]
PA 1029 of 2007 (sponsor: Rep. Mike Kenney, R–Siloam Springs) establishes a pilot performance pay program for teachers in up to 12 public school districts or charter schools. The measure includes a statement of legislative intent to provide “incentives that will encourage teachers to Improve their knowledge and instructional skills in order to improve […]
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