Arkansas made dramatic funding increases to the Arkansas Better Chance pre-K program beginning in 2004, raising annual appropriations from $13 million annually to now $114 million.
Read MoreLast week, the Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research issued a report on teacher salaries statewide.
Read moreForwARd Arkansas released a new toolkit aimed at boosting academic achievement among LRSD middle school students.
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A little less than a month into the school year, students, parents and teachers across the state are getting back into the swing of things. The same is true here at ForwARd Arkansas.
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Schools across Arkansas have taken an innovative approach to education by proactively partnering with businesses to better prepare students for the working world.
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This spring, hundreds of Arkansans gathered for ForwARd Together Conversations to tackle pressing questions related to education in our state.
Read MoreForwARd Arkansas was launched in 2014 as a public-private partnership established by the Arkansas State Board of Education, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation to increase equity and achieve increases in student achievement and economic prosperity for Arkansas.
DownloadDuring the fall of 2017, ForwARd Arkansas and the Little Rock School District partnered together in order to assess the feasibility of implementing a school-community partnership model of learning among the district’s eight middle schools.
DownloadAfter a year of full operation as a start-up, ForwARd has achieved remarkable progress toward achieving its goals for our state.
DownloadOn July 2014, WRF and WFF began a long-term partnership with the Arkansas State Board of Education to dramatically transform Arkansas’s public education system.
DownloadForwARd is committed to working with the rest of Arkansas to change these outcomes in the coming years. And the opportunity is great.
DownloadForwARd lays out four major findings about the state of education in Arkansas in a 2015 report.
DownloadOur vision is that every Arkansas student will graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace
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