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Almost all Arkansas school districts use the title "School District", or "Public Schools". All districts come under the jurisdiction of the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE). Extracurricular activities come under the jurisdiction of the Arkansas Activities Association. In 1996 the average Arkansas school district had 1,468 students. [14]
This is a list of high schools in the state of Arkansas. All schools are comprehensive public high schools unless otherwise denoted as a charter school , magnet school , private school , or residential boarding school .
The Northeast Arkansas School District was formed on July 1, 1985, by the merger of the former Paragould School District with the Oak Grove School District. On July 1, 1994, the Stanford School District merged into the Northeast Arkansas district. [3] By 1997 the name of the new district became the Paragould district. [4]
Following reorganization in 2019, Arkansas state government's executive branch contains fifteen cabinet-level departments. Many formerly independent departments were consolidated as "divisions" under newly created departments under a shared services model.
Slavery was abolished in 1865, and for the first time schooling was made possible for Blacks. From the end of the Reconstruction era in the 1870s down to the 1940s, the state and local governments gave far less money to all-black public schools compared to the favored white public schools. However many private schools for Blacks were funded by ...
In a response to a petition signed by more than 2,000 voters, the Arkansas Board of Education ordered an election to carve a new school district out of the existing PCSSD. [3] Jacksonville voters approved of the separation on September 16, 2014 with a vote of 3,769 for and 218 against (94.53% to 5.47%).
With overnight temperatures forecast to fall to less than 20 degrees across much of the area north of I-20, according to the National Weather Service, a hard freeze warning is now in effect.
The Beebe School District was one of four Arkansas school districts recognized in the 4th Annual AP District Honor Roll as being honored for increasing access to AP course work while simultaneously maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on Advanced Placement (AP) Exams from 2011 to 2013. [5]