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California’s New School Funding Flexibility

Margaret Weston
May 1, 2011

Margaret Weston outlines how California can add to new laws and increase flexibility on funds for schools facing budget crises.

How To Unshackle Charter Schools

Brian Kisida and Michael Q. McShane
February 23, 2011

 

What Questions Should You Ask About The New Health Care Reforms Of The Beebe Administration?

Twila Brase
March 16, 2011

One week ago, Governor Mike Beebe revealed that he had been planning fundamental and unprecedented changes in the state’s Medicaid system, in concert with the Obama

HB 1893: Opening Doors To Better Teachers And Better Education In Arkansas

Stuart Buck
March 22, 2011

 

Arkansas’s children deserve good teachers. Good teachers drive student achievement. But teachers in Arkansas are currently licensed under a set of bureaucratic requirements that have never been shown to improve educational quality or benefit students. These bureaucratic requirements can keep potentially good teachers away.

House Bill 1893 improves the teacher licensure process in Arkansas by opening the schoolhouse doors to more potentially good teachers. The bill will help education in Arkansas in three ways:

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