STATE ISSUES NUMERICAL GRADES TO SCHOOLS
“Issue school-by-school performance report cards to parents and the public. Use the results of this report...
MOST CHARTERS EXCEL, FOUR APPROACH ALERT
(October 1, 2011) Most Arkansas charters1 meet or exceed standards in a state report that assigns a...
LITTLE ROCK HAS HALF OF FAILING SCHOOLS IN STATE EDUCATION REPORT
(October 1, 2011) The Little Rock School District, the state’s largest, has half of the...
WEAK RECOVERY
“Nonfarm payroll employment was unchanged (0) in August, and the unemployment rate held at 9.1 percent.” (U.S....
MUNICIPAL BROADBAND: A CAUTIONARY TALE
(September 2011) The municipal government claimed its plan would expand broadband, a telecommunications process providing greater...
MANUFACTURING LOSSES LEAD TO WEAKEST POSTWAR EMPLOYMENT GROWTH
(July 2011) Total national payroll employment growth in the current and preceding expansion are the weakest...
FEW EMPLOYMENT SECTORS GROWING
(July 15, 2011) U.S. and Arkansas payroll employment has increased slightly since the recession’s end two...
DISCUSS DR. MILTON FRIEDMAN’S EDUCATION REFORMS AT JULY 29 FORUM IN CONWAY
(July 2011) The education reform ideas of Dr. Milton Friedman (1912-2006), the 1976 Nobel Economics laureate...
THE LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT FACES THE SAME PROBLEMS IT DID IN 2000
“Fiscal management is as important as academics in evaluating any school district’s performance.” Arkansas Policy Foundation report,...
GOVERNMENT ESTIMATE OVERSTATES PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
(May 2011) One year ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated “the creation...
