Policy Research

"School Improvement Coordinator Ms. Tiah Frazier said there were 28 districts with transitional support plans." Minutes, State Board of Education, December 14, 2017 "PA930 of 2017 requires districts with schools labeled under the state's previous school accountability...

"Scarce resources can be allocated toward fiscal goals ... when government does more with less."  Policy Foundation, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 20161   (February 12, 2018) Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson proposed using efficiencies and savings from the transformation...

"State corporate income taxes represent a type of "double taxation", wherein corporate profits are taxed at both the corporate level and the personal income tax level, when dividends are paid." Murphy Commission, Policy Foundation project,...

(January 2018) Records show the school choice market in Pulaski County totaled nearly 19,000 K-12 students in 2017. This niche educational market includes students eligible to participate in public school choice programs, capped at three...

"The most callused aspect of the current education monopoly in Arkansas is that it willingly and deliberately forces children--except those whose parents have wealth--to attend bad schools.” Policy Foundation report,11998   (January 2018) Records show...

"There is significant evidence that reductions in marginal state tax rates encourage state economic growth ...Rates on productive behavior should be reduced." “Reduce the state's income tax…repeal the state's capital gains tax.” Arkansas Policy Foundation, Murphy...

"(A) stronger FOIA has the potential to save Arkansas taxpayers millions of dollars ... Records we obtained ... show outstanding tax liens .... while taxes are raised and counties aren't fully reimbursed for housing state inmates in...

(December 2017) Arkansas' top income tax rate (6.9%)1 is the second-highest in the 12-state southeast region,2 trailing only South Carolina (7.0%), according to the Federation of State Tax Administrators.3  The organization serves the principal tax collection agencies of...

  (October 2017) The Arkansas Policy Foundation and Reason Foundation cordially invite you to a panel and workshop event, titled “Arkansas School Choice and School Finance in the 21st Century”   The event includes a...

"Define and implement a system of performance-based pay for all state employees." Murphy Commission, "Making Arkansas' State Government Performance Driven and Accountable," September 19981   (September 2017) The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT) has advanced a...