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Why Rural Matters in Arkansas
Arkansas is among the leaders in percentages of its population living in rural communities, rural children living in poverty, and students attending small, rural schools. But while the state's many small, rural schools get more of their slim budgets into the classroom than do the rural schools in almost every other state, rural teacher salaries are among the lowest in the nation and the gap between rural and other teachers' salaries is wide. Rural education is critically important, and the need for attention is urgent.
From Why Rural Matters 2003: The Continuing Need for Every State to Take Action on Rural Education, February 2003. Learn more about why rural matters in your state.
Toolkit on Arkansas School Issues
RESEARCH
The Impact of Act 60 Consolidation
"The Devil Is in the Details" Explores Rural-Sensitive NCLB Implementation in Arkansas and 14 Other States
Why Rural Matters 2003: Summary for Arkansas
School District Consolidation 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)
Small Works in Arkansas: How Poverty and the Size of Schools and School Districts Affect School Performance in Arkansas
The Rural Bus Ride in Five States
New Publication: Rural School Leadership in the Deep South
LINKS
Arkansas Rural Education Association
Education Commission of the States
National Parent Teacher Association
National Public School Locator
National Center for Education Statistics
Pew Center on the States
Rural Education Directory
Rural Funders Working Group
U.S. Census Bureau
Oct 03 - Kentucky Schools Battle the Urge to Merge
Sep 03 - Arkansas Consolidation Debate a Waste of Time
Sep 03 - Price Tag for Effective Distance Learning in Arkansas
Aug 03 - Distance Learning is an Educationally Sound and Cost-Effective Solution for Arkansas' Small Schools
Aug 03 - New Report Calls Arkansas Consolidation Debate "Wasteful"
Jul 03 - Group Says School Consolidation Overshadowing Critical Education Issues
Jul 03 - Arkansas Forum Takes on School Funding Issue
Jun 03 - Arkansas Governor Huckabee Creates School Consolidation Incentive Fund
Jun 03 - Rural Trust Addresses School Finance Challenges in Arkansas
Mar 03 - Arkansas Consolidation Plans
Feb 03 - Arkansas Legislators Propose End to State Constitutional Guarantee of Free Public Schools
Jan 03 - Arkansas State Legislature Begins Task of Addressing Lake View Decision
Dec 02 - Victories for Rural School Finance in Arkansas and Tennessee
Dec 02 - Ohio Supreme Court Joins Arkansas and Tennessee in Finding School Finance System Unconstitutional
Nov 02 - Rural Schools Score Major Victory in Arkansas Supreme Court
Nov 02 - Arkansas Schools Needing Improvement Listed
Sep 02 - Arkansas School Boycott Prompts Lawsuit, Rural Organizing
Aug 02 - Arkansas House Speaker Pans Commission Consolidation Plan
Apr 02 - Consolidation in Arkansas: Cure Worse Than Disease
Apr 02 - Arkansas State Board Votes to Take Over Two Districts
Mar 02 - New Research Finds Smaller is Better in Arkansas
Mar 02 - Groups Ask Arkansas Supreme Court for Decision Supporting Rural Schools
Feb 02 - Arkansas' Small Schools Cut Poverty's Power over Student Achievement
Oct 01 - Rural Bus Rides: Study finds it's a long, rough road
Aug 01 - Lake View -- The Little District that Could
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