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Explaining the Arkansas Merit Teacher Incentive Fund Program
by Josh B. McGee The LEARNS Act (Act 237 of the 2023 Regular Session) established the Merit Teacher Incentive Fund Program, also known as Merit Pay, to recognize and reward Arkansas’s outstanding educators. The primary goals of the program are to retain...
2024 Arkansas Parent Survey
by Taylor Wilson, Graduate Researcher As Arkansas navigates the evolving educational landscape, the 2024 survey by the Office for Education Policy at the University of Arkansas offers a snapshot of parental opinions on key education issues. The survey, conducted with...
2023 & 2024 Novice Teacher Survey Report
This report contains a summary of results from a survey administered in the spring of 2023 & 2024 to teachers in their first, second, or third year of teaching. The survey focuses on the support provided through their novice teacher mentoring program. Click here...
2023 & 2024 Education Preparation Program (EPP) Completer Supervisor Survey Report
This report contains a summary of results from a survey administered to the supervisors of 2022 and 2023 Education Preparation Program (EPP) completers in the spring of the year after they completed. Click here to read a summary of the results.
2023 & 2024 Educator Preparation Program (EPP) Completer Survey Report
This report contains a summary of results from a survey administered to 2022 and 2023 Educator Preparation Program completers in the spring of the year after they completed. Click here to read a summary of the results.
Arkansas Charter School Funding
by Alison Heape Johnson and Josh McGee This is the fourth in a series of posts on Arkansas school funding. In previous posts, we discussed: How Arkansas' school funding formula works and a bit about its history; How Arkansas' education spending compares nationally;...
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