Policy Research

“Charter schools create an alternate form of public schooling where schools are granted significant autonomy but are held accountable for results. The 'charter' is essentially a contract ... Unlike other public schools, parents specifically request...

  "The Review Team recommends that management of Arkansas' five Retirement Systems be consolidated under one agency." (Arkansas Policy Foundation, 1998) Investment losses by the Arkansas State Police Retirement System have led a state Senator...

(November 2007) The Policy Foundation, in light of monthly revenue reports since the July 1 grocery tax cut is renewing its 1998 and 2006 proposals to subject any state tax cuts to a process of...

“The students who go to charter schools are not those of great need but have support at home and are relatively high achieving.” Little Rock School Board Member Baker Kurras (“Little Rock Board Resisting 6...

  “The students who go to charter schools are not those of great need but have support at home and are relatively high achieving.” Little Rock School Board Member Baker Kurras (“Little Rock Board Resisting...

  Arkansas educators will insist they already have a report card. They do-for only each district, not school by school. But for Arkansas' parents and the public to draw any real conclusions about performance from...

Author: Mark Witkowski July 2007 Summary: This study relies on Spring 2006 testing data fromArkansas students taking the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills to evaluate the performance of 251 K-12 public school districts. Using a...

(July 2007) The late Milton Friedman (1912-2006), the 1976 Nobel laureate in economics will be remembered at a July 31 event at 11: 45 a.m. at the Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock. The event,...

  In 1998, the Murphy Commission, a Policy Foundation project, recommended Arkansas' 311 school districts should be restructured into not more than 134 administrative units to save tax dollars. Through last summer (2006), 66 districts,...

ACHIEVING 100 PERCENT in order for Arkansas to move from a low-wage to a high-wage economy, the state needs to decte8se ma,gina/ tax rares... In orcter to attract (high-income) WOrkers to Arkansas.• (Murphy Commission, 1998)...