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By Christina Fowler LITTLE ROCK – The Joint Education Committee heard reports on the Arkansas Educational Support and Accountability Act (AESAA) and English Language Learner (ELL) State Categorical Funding during its meeting on Tuesday. AESAA contains Arkansas’s state accountability system that runs parallel with the Federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) system to set expectations for the achievement of all students; communicate on whether those expectations are being met; celebrate those schools and school districts that are meeting or exceeding expectations and prompt action in those that are not; and provide additional resources to struggling schools. Legislative Analyst Julie Holt, Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research, provided the committee with an overview of the history that led to the passage of Act 930 in 2017 and… Read More

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The State Board of Education approved emergency rules governing reinstatement of a revoked teacher license during a special session held July 30. The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) is currently promulgating permanent rules to comply with Act 628, which was passed during the 2019 legislative session and provides the State Board of Education authority to enact rules to reinstate an educator’s license under certain circumstances. Read More