Do Four-Day School Weeks Help Retain Teachers?
Districts in Arkansas are increasingly moving towards four-day school week calendar with hopes of improving teacher retention and recruitment. This blog post summarizes a new working paper that examines how effective the strategy is and provides some guidance for policymakers.
Arkansas School Funding Equity
by Josh B. McGee This is the third in a series of posts on Arkansas school funding. In previous posts we discussed: How Arkansas’s school funding formula works and a bit about it’s history; and How Arkansas’s education pending compares...New Report Highlights Promising Strategies to Address Teacher Shortage in Arkansas
Last week, the national education policy nonprofit TNTP released a report on recent efforts to strengthen the Arkansas teacher pipeline. Click here to check out the report titled “Moving Up: Promising Strategies to Address Teacher Shortages in Arkansas.” TNTP...How does Arkansas School Spending Compare Nationally?
by Josh B. McGee Last week’s blog discussed the sources of Arkansas school funding and some of the basics about how the state’s funding formula works. As a quick review, Arkansas has a student-based funding formula that provides districts with a foundation amount for...Funding Arkansas’s Schools
by Josh McGee Today’s blog is the first in a series about Arkansas school funding. Our goal is to provide straightforward, data-driven explanations of things like: How the Arkansas K-12 funding system works; How our education funding compares to other states; How the...Subscribe by Email
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