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Toolkit on Arkansas School Issues Now Available
The Rural Trust's policy program has put together a toolkit for Arkansas activists working to protect the state's small rural schools. Many of Arkansas' smaller schools and districts face the threat of consolidation and/or closure. The materials in the toolkit offer concise information on:
- Alternative ways to achieve cost-effective schools
- The relationships of school size, poverty and student achievement in Arkansas
- Using distance-learning technology to give small schools big capabilities
- Fiscal impacts of school consolidation
- Reinventing Regional Education Service Cooperatives in Arkansas
- Research-based conclusions on school size
Focus on Arkansas: Available Documents
MS Word format
Small Works in Arkansas:How Poverty and the Size of Schools and Districts Affect School Performance in Arkansas
School Size, School Climate, and Student Performance
Distance Learning Technologies: Giving Small Schools Big Capabilities
The Fiscal Impacts of School Consolidation: Research Based Conclusions
The Re-Invention of Regional Service Co-ops in Arkansas
School Size: Research Based Conclusions
Closing Costs: A Summary of an Award Winning Look at School Consolidation in West Virginia, a State Where It Has Been Tried Aggressively
Adequacy Study Standards
PDF Format
Two-Way Interactive TV: An Educationally Sound and Cost-Effective Approach to Distance Learning in Arkansas' Small Schools
One Page Summary of Distance Learning Costs
School District Consolidation in Arkansas
School District Consolidation in Arkansas: An Assessment of the "Blind 500 Solution"
An Assessment of Arkansas School District Consolidation Based on High School ADM of 375
An Assessment of Arkansas School District Consolidation Based on 350 ADM
Alternative Ways to Achieve Cost Effective Schools in Arkansas
Tax Options for Arkansas: Funding Education After the Lake View Case (Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, 2003)
Tax Options for Arkansas: Summary Report (Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, 2003)
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