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School districts that have schools identified as persistently lowest-achieving apply to the state department of education to obtain School Improvement Grants. As part of their grant application, districts must identify which of the four intervention models (i.e., turnaround, restart, closure, or transformation) they intend to implement in each ...
List of school districts in Arkansas This page was last edited on 24 December 2013, at 10:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
“The Fight for School Consolidation in Arkansas, 1946-1948.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 65#1 (2006), pp. 45–57. online; Leflar, Robert A. “Legal Education in Arkansas: A Brief History of the Law School.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 21#2 (1962) pp. 99–131. online; Penton, Emily. "Typical Women's Schools in Arkansas before the ...
The Augmented Benchmark Examinations is a test required by the Arkansas Department of Education in support of NCLB.Starting with the 2007–08 school year, a criterion-referenced test mandated by the state was merged with the Stanford Achievement Test, Series 10 to form the Augmented Benchmark Examinations.
Arkansas Code Revision Commission; Arkansas Corn and Grain Sorghum Board; Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame Board; Arkansas Film Commission; Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission; Governor's Commission on National Service and Volunteerism - Engage Arkansas; Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission; Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission
The Empowerment Zone Program consists of three US congressional designations. [2] The Renewal Communities (RCs), Empowerment Zones (EZs) and Enterprise Communities (ECs) are highly distressed urban and rural communities that may be eligible for a combination of grants, tax credits for businesses, bonding authority and other benefits.
The rural school building program for African-American children was one of the largest programs administered by the Rosenwald Fund. Over $4.4 million in matching funds stimulated construction of more than 5,000 one-room schools (and larger ones), as well as shops and teachers' homes, mostly in the South , where public schools were segregated ...
In the 1932–1933 school year, Arkansas had 3,086 school districts, with 1,990 of them each operating a school for white students that only employed a single teacher. Calvin R. Ledbetter Jr. of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock stated that the Great Depression caused a drop in government revenues and frustrated school consolidation.