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Administrators’ Views of Teacher Salary Changes Under the Arkansas LEARNS Act
Link: Administrators’ Views of Teacher Salary Changes Under the Arkansas LEARNS Act SUMMARY We surveyed superintendents and principals statewide to understand their perspectives on the salary...
Wellbeing and Working Conditions in the Arkansas Teacher Workforce
Link: Wellbeing and Working Conditions in the Arkansas Teacher Workforce In the spring of the 2023-2024 school year, we developed the Arkansas Teacher Survey in collaboration with the Arkansas...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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