Arkansas Advocate

Arkansas teachers feel financial burden of back-to-school season, regardless of raises

The Arkansas LEARNS Act, a major education overhaul championed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, raised the base pay for teachers to $50,000. But teachers say the pay increase isn’t enough when they still use personal funds for classroom expenses throughout the year.

Rural schools look for ways to bring more multilingual education into the curriculum

Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment.

More Arkansas school districts hiring unlicensed teachers to cope with staff shortage

One in 12 educators working in Arkansas public schools are unlicensed or teaching outside of their certification area. That number has more than doubled in the last seven years, an Advocate analysis of state data found.

Education coalition unveils effort to amend Arkansas constitution

Ballot measure proposes requiring any school receiving public funds to follow the same standards that traditional public schools must follow and guaranteeing 3 and 4-year-olds universal access to pre-K.