On July 1, the Batesville School District will officially adopt a Community School strategy—becoming the first in Arkansas to hire a community school coordinator to manage this initiative.
Read MoreCommunities cannot thrive if people are left behind because of how they look or their socioeconomic status. An excellent education for every child helps solve that problem.
Read moreAs the doors of our schools closed this spring, most Arkansas families transitioned from students physically going to school to educational content coming to their home via the Internet. But how does a student keep up with their peers if there is no high-speed Internet access at home?
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Historically, pandemics are non-discriminatory, reaching across both racial and economic lines. But COVID-19 is not following suit and is dramatically highlighting the disparities and inequities within our country.
Read MoreForwARd has prepared suggested language for your LEA Assurances and Application for CARES Act 2020 Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund.
Read MoreCommunity Schools strengthen the collaboration among government, nonprofits and other key agencies to meet challenging needs—pandemic-related or otherwise.
Read MoreFrom advancing legislation that supports the needs of Arkansas students, to hosting our second annual Data & Policy Symposium and championing the community schools model, ForwARd implemented impactful initiatives for students and their families in 2019.
DownloadThis report examines the potential relationship between attending the district-provided Pre-K program amongst students with similar observable characteristics, using anonymous student-level data points for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years and grades kindergarten to 2nd.
DownloadThis report analyzes the associations between district-provided Pre-K attendance and academic and non-academic outcomes for Springdale Public Schools.
DownloadThe goal of this report is to provide a descriptive analysis of the perceptions of quality and effectiveness of one district-provided Pre-K program from the perspectives of current Pre-K parents, Pre-K teachers, and Kindergarten parents.
DownloadThis report seeks to expound upon the existing Pre-K literature and gain a more holistic understanding of the effects of Pre-K, by providing a parent and teacher perspective of district-provided Pre-K within an individual community.
DownloadThe ESSA Parent Toolkit Flyer was developed by ForwARd Arkansas in August 2019 to serve as a tool for school districts to educate parents and community members about the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and about what they can do to support their schools.
DownloadThe ESSA Parent Toolkit was developed by ForwARd Arkansas in August 2019 to serve as a tool for school districts to educate parents and community members about the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and about what they can do to support their schools.
DownloadThis project was carried out under the direction of Dr. Jay Barth, M.E. and Ima Graves Peace Distinguished Professor of Politics and Director of the Arkansas Policy Project, in collaboration with ForwARd Arkansas and with support from the Rural Community Alliance.
DownloadThis toolkit provides resources that highlight the step by step process of engaging business and community in educational philanthropy and utilizing the local non-profit infrastructure to advocate at the state level.
DownloadThis toolkit provides resources for replicating Independence County's IMPACT Education Summit. The summit had approximately 400 attendees included all stakeholders such as educators, parents, students, business leaders, state agencies, local college representatives, etc.
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