The Helena-West Helena School Board will discuss Reduction in Force (RIF) in a special called meeting at 6 tonight.
Only one contested race developed in the September school elections as the deadline to file for school board officially ended at noon Friday.
If Barton-Lexa voters approve a 3-mill increase in September it would take the district’s athletic program to a new level, notes Superintendent Tom Wilson.
Helena-West Helena Treasurer Michael Boone’s criminal and civil case for alleged failure to carry out the duties of his job has been continued to Nov. 29 in Phillips County Circuit Court.
As of July 10, Phillips County middle school science teachers in grades 5-8 in Phillips County can go to www.donorschoose.org/SIMS to apply for grants through Arkansas Community Foundation’s Science Initiative for Middle Schools (SIMS) program. Deadline for applications is Sept. 15.
According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, an American student drops out of school every 26 seconds. The U.S. Department of Education says that because of the literacy gap, a shortage of 12 million workers will result in the next decade.
Overall, three out of four welfare recipients are illiterate, 68 percent of the prison population is unable to read and over 40 percent of the population of Phillips County score at the lowest literacy rate.
Dr. Tom Kimbrell, commissioner of the Arkansas Department of Education, has met with the Helena-West Helena School District administration several times after a $1.6 million budget miscalculation was discovered.
Carroll Leon Early, a drafting teacher at Central High School for 17 years, has been suspended without pay by the Helena-West Helena School District.
“We could have a total shutdown in the national economy and still have school in the Barton-Lexa School District,” said Barton-Lexa Superintendent Lee Vent at Tuesday’s school board session. “(It) Makes you feel good doesn’t it.”
The Arkansas Board of Education voted Monday to return local control to the Bald Knob School District, which the state took over in 2007 because it projected a $2 million debt.
Federal District Judge Brian Miller was the keynote speaker for the National Teachers Day program Tuesday at J.F. Wahl and among the honorees were the teachers of the year.
Superintendent Lee Vent says Barton-Lexa may be the first school district in the state to adopt a disaster recovery plan. Read more to find out what else happened in the session.
The Barton-Lexa school board met and discussed the demolition to the old high school as they make way for new facilities.
With major role changes in place, the Helena-West Helena School Board rolled through a busy slate Monday night, highlighted by the adoption of a 3.5 percent across-the-board pay raise for all district employees.
Being at or near the bottom in the nation when it comes to education used to be a fight between Arkansas and Mississippi.
State education officials say they will talk with nine school districts whose voters recently rejected millage increases this month to discuss how the votes may affect state funding for school building improvements, including Helena-West Helena School District.
First-grade students in Arkansas public schools are retaking standardized tests they took last spring because of a mistake by the test publisher, officials said.
A Jacksonville public school system may be carved out of the existing Pulaski County Special School District under a resolution approved by school board members.
Arkansas lawmakers will have to decide whether offering teachers the same health insurance plan as other state workers is required under a Supreme Court decision on school funding. It's a decision that could add hundreds of million of dollars to a state budget already being drafted.
