About Member Services
The Arkansas Public School Resource Center is a service-oriented, nonprofit membership organization that offers support, technical assistance and training to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools across the state. APSRC’s full-time and highly trained staff provide assistance in five main areas:
- Administrative Hearing Assistance
- Charter Applications
- Charter Renewal
- Consolidation/Annexation Issues
- Contract Review
- Ethics Compliance
- FERPA
- FOIA
- In-house Legal Advice
- Legal Document Creation & Counsel
- Legal Issues Review & Consulting
- Litigation Assistance/Management
- Personnel Law
- Pleadings & Petition Assistance
- School Board Governance Assistance
- School Board Training
- School Facility Assistance & Review
- School Policy Drafting & Advice
- Standards Monitoring
- State & Federal Programs Compliance
- Zoning & Federal Voting Rights
- Accreditation
- Audit Procedures
- ACSIP
- Bid Procedures
- Bookkeeper/Business Manager Training
- COGNOS
- Ethics for Business Transactions
- Federal/Categorical Funds
- Financial Accountability
- Financial Analysis & CFAM Management
- Fiscal Distress
- Grant Management
- Internal Controls
- Monitoring
- Purchasing Card Program
- School Board Training
- School Financial Accounting Services
- School Improvement Plans
- Standards Monitoring
- Tier I & II Training
- Administrator Coaching & Mentoring
- Creating Common Assessments
- Cross Curricular Close Reading Strategies for Secondary
- Cross Curricular Vocabulary Strategies for Secondary
- Curricular Audit
- Curriculum & Instruction
- Curriculum Mapping
- Data Interpretation
- Data Literacy
- Digital Learning
- Depth of Knowledge Training & Support
- ESSA for Administrators & Teachers
- Grant Proposal Development
- High Reliability School Support
- Identifying Essential Standards
- Instructional Research & Analysis
- Instructional Technology
- Leader Excellence & Development System for Administrators (LEADS)
- NWEA Training & Support
- Professional Learning Community Support
- Response to Intervention Support
- Special Education Coaching & Support
- Special Education Mock-Monitoring
- Special Education Law Training for Administrators
- Teacher Excellence & Support System (TESS)
- Continuity Plans
- Data Automation Project
- Data Analysis
- Digital Learning
- E-rate Procedures & Applications
- Instructional Technology
- IT Security
- Online Resources
- Tech Tools for Administrators
- Tech Tools for Teachers
- Technology Audit
- Technology Issues
- Advocacy Support
- Communications Plan Development
- Community Relations
- Marketing Support
- Media Relations
- Social Media Support & Training
- Stakeholder Communications
- Website Analysis & Review
- Website Development
The Benefits of Membership
Each year, our member school districts have access to four days of service as part of their membership fee. These services can be requested in any of the areas of focus – legal, finance, technology, teaching and learning, communications – or can all be provided in one technical service area. For four days of service, the only fee is for travel/mileage costs, unless, due to the scheduling of the services, there is a need for lodging and meals – which will be included on a per-item basis.
Additional Services
For long-term technical service agreements, either a Technical Service Contract or a Memorandum of Understanding will be drafted. It will detail services to be provided, along with mileage, lodging and/or service fees. These contractual agreements will be negotiated by the department directors at APSRC. The fee structure is based on hourly rates.
What’s New in 2019-20
- The APSRC/ARVEST Purchasing Card (P-Card) program provides districts a financial tool to save time and money.
- Trainings on best practices in the use of P-cards
- An expanded array of bookkeeping services provided by our Finance Department
- Specialized legal trainings and policy advice, particularly where the laws enacted in 2019 are concerned
- CFAM 2.0, per the request of many superintendents and bookkeepers. CFAM 2.0 provides schools a robust financial tool designed to provide an immediate “snapshot” of both trends and opportunities for cost-savings.
- New and updated PD trainings designed by both our Teaching and Learning Department
- Novice Teacher Mentoring Program for charter schools
- The Charter Leadership Institute
- Special education support services in the areas of IEPs, law and due process, and best practices
- The Digital Academy, which allows school districts to offer online courses to homeschooled students