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Little Rock School District is holding their check-in for back to school on Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 7pm.

The Arkansas Education Association says it will permanently revoke the license of any teacher found to have obtained the license by fraud.

The State Board of Education is considering a proposal to keep the Arkansas Governor's School in Conway until 2015.

Gov. Mike Beebe has named Hendrix College political science professor Jay Barth to the state Board of Education.

Five more states are being granted waivers from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law.

Three employees of Louisa E. Perritt Primary School recommended by the superintendent for termination will wait out suspensions for the rest of the school year and be allowed to return in the fall.

Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, has named University of Arkansas professor Robert Costrell to his advisory committee on education.

The 4-year-old students at Fair Park Early Childhood Center will blow you away.

The various sides in a lawsuit that resulted in Arkansas' school choice law being declared unconstitutional are asking for the ruling to be stayed, but for different reasons.

A federal judge said Friday that he won't enforce a ruling that tossed out Arkansas' 1989 school choice law while appeals are pending.

The Arkansas Board of Education is to decide the fate of two southwest Little Rock charter schools.

Frank Anthony, who retired in 2011 after 43 years in education, has been named superintendent.

Members of the Little Rock Education Association picketed outside of the Little Rock School District Administration building Thursday evening, hoping present a united front in advance of salary negotiations.

Arkansas Baptist College announced several changes coming to the school during summer in an effort to save money.

Three Little Rock-area school districts are asking a federal judge to deny Arkansas' attempt to end a desegregation settlement agreement that has required the state to pay the schools more than $1 billion since 1989.

An eighth-grader in Jessieville has won a top national writing award and the library of her choice will be awarded a $10,000 grant.

The union representing teachers in the Pulaski County School District has voted "no confidence" in Superintendent Jerry Guess and state Education Commissioner Tom Kimbrell.

The Little Rock Teachers and Support Staff Union voted unanimously to accept a 1% pay raise, retroactive to August of 2011.

A student at the North Little Rock High School-East Campus was arrested Wednesday after the school learned he had a gun on school grounds.

Philander Smith College has chosen an Arkansas native as its new president.

A parent has been arrested for allegedly choking a teacher at Dunbar Middle School.

The teacher and staff unions who represent Pulaski County Special School District employees are out, meaning they will no longer be the bargaining unit for extra perks in their contracts.

Members of PACT and PASS, the unions that used to represent teachers and support staff in the Pulaski County Special School District, rallied on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol protesting their de-certification.

Extending legislative term limits, encouraging regional collaboration in economic development, passing a sales tax increase for higher education and expanding the “Natural State” branding campaign to promote healthy lifestyles are among the state policy recommendations issued Saturday by student leaders from roughly 40 Arkansas colleges and universities.

The Little Rock School District says that an outage to its voicemail system is expected to be fixed by the end of the day on Thursday.

Even though school ends in four days, learning is still going on at Belwood Elementary. But in addition to teaching, Jennifer France is taping boxes and packing up her classroom.

Parents are asking questions and getting little in return as DHS investigates an incident at an Arkadelphia primary school that led to three teacher suspensions and a principals abrupt retirement.

Students line up to be recognized for their hard work and dedication. Pulaski Tech grads walk across the stage with confidence, but afterward, will those feelings disappear as college graduates face huge loan debt and an uncertain job market?

Oral arguments are planned in a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Malvern parents who are challenging a provision of the state's school-choice law that factors in race when students wish to transfer to a new district.

A new study says the percentage of Arkansans earning high school degrees is on the decline.

College Goal Sunday is a one day, statewide event created to help students and parents learn more about higher education and financial aid applications.

The Arkansas Legislature has convened for a fiscal session focusing on a proposed $4.7 billion budget that calls for increasing spending on Medicaid and public schools.

Arkansas education officials are looking at a state Supreme Court ruling on sexual contact between teachers and students to see if it will affect their ability to revoke educators' licenses for such activity.

The Pulaski County Special School District has changed the bell schedule for many of its schools.

The Mt. Pine School District Superintendent was arrested after an argument with his wife and a Garland County deputy.

A man who taught at the Fountain Lake School was arrested Tuesday, charged with 2nd degree sexual assault and computer child pornography.

The unions that represent teachers and staff members in the Pulaski County School District have declared an impasse in negotiations over how to cut $14 million from next school year's budget.

More than 2 out of 5 students receiving a lottery scholarship lose that benefit after one year. Now, legislators are looking for the first time at what's happening to students after they get the lottery scholarship.

North Little Rock School District leaders unveil where students will be attending school next year as they make way to begin major district wide construction.

So what does it take to be a substitute teacher in Arkansas? Besides a lot of patience, you might be surprised at just who is allowed to enter the classroom.

A big change could be on the way for Little Rock middle school students. Leaders want to change to an 8-period day versus the current 4-period block schedule.

The Pulaski County Special School District and the teachers and support staff unions are at a stalemate.

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel asked a federal judge on Monday to end a desegregation settlement agreement with three Little Rock-area school districts that has required the state to pay the schools more than $1 billion since 1989.  |   Motion for Release from desegregation funding (122.8KB)

Students from across Arkansas took part in the state Spelling Bee Saturday.

The Arkansas Education Board has placed the Pulaski County Special School District in fiscal distress.

An attorney for the Little Rock School District told a federal judge on Thursday that Arkansas has created a "competing system" of charter schools in Pulaski County that violate the state's 1989 desegregation agreement.

A northwest Arkansas father has sued the Rogers School District, challenging the one-day suspension his 5-year-old son received for using a curse word at school.

Should race play a factor in deciding where a child should attend school?

Arkansas schools performance data is now online.

Dr. Dan F. Bakke, president of Pulaski Technical College, announced his retirement from the college. The retirement is effective June 30th.