ADE Briefs

This just in from Pulaski County Special School District: All students of the district, whether they will be a new or returning student, will have to register at the school they will be attending. This is necessary because the district is moving to an upgraded data collection system and student data must be current. PCSSD [...]

Beginning Wednesday, July 1, the Arkansas Department of Education’s Commissioner’s Memos site on ArkansasEd.org will have a new look and feel…and we think you’ll find them easier to use as well. The structure will be similar to what it has been, which includes a memo number, title, date, and so forth, but new functions for [...]

Arkansas Mexico 2010 is a celebration of Mexio’s 200th anniversary of the Mexican Independence and the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. Thanks to a consortium of UALR, the Clinton Presidential Center and Park, the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and the MacArthur Museum of Military History, Arkansas teachers have had the opportunity this summer [...]

Dr. Kimbrell shares news about the latest release of test scores and more in this week’s video message. If you have something you’d like to hear him talk about, send an e-mail with your request to Julie Johnson Thompson, director of communications, at julie.thompson@arkansas.gov. Posted by JJT.

On Wednesday, Gov. Mike Beebe addressed an audience filled with the state’s newest National Board Certified teachers, along with their family and friends. A total of 281 Arkansans received the national certification in 2009. Arkansas, which now has 1,397 teachers with this certification, pays a $5,000 incentive for 10 years to each teacher who earns [...]

Results from the 2010 Arkansas Augmented Benchmark Exams and the Grade 11 Literacy Exam again yielded good news: more students scored proficient and advanced for another annual increase in math and literacy performance and, for the fourth year in a row, the achievement gap between white students and students of color continued to narrow. “When [...]

The Arkansas State Board of Education approved on Monday the creation of a career and technical/vocational permit in the areas of Latin and Japanese. Neither of these content areas are offered by any institution of higher education in Arkansas. With five districts in the state offering Latin and two Latin teachers retiring this year, the [...]

Students have the same high levels of access to “highly qualified” and experienced teachers both in high povery and low poverty schools and in high minority and low minority schools, Beverly Williams, Arkansas Department of Education assistant commissioner for human resources and licensure, reported to the Arkansas State Board of Education at its board meeting [...]

The Arkansas State Board of Education heard a report about the 120-student Hope Academy Charter School, which is facing a declining balance and at the end of May 2010 had a balance of $18,709.91. The total unrestricted operating fund balance rested at a negative balance of $42,191.77. “The financial picture is not pretty as of [...]

Nine grants to promote physical and mental health for all children have been awarded to schools by the Arkansas Office of Coordinated School Health, said Dee Cox with the Arkansas Department of Education. Another competitive grant option, the Joint Use Agreement, has been announced. It’s for collaborative efforts in communities among organizations to promote healthy [...]