September 24, 2020 Notorious My favorite story about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the story she shared about a conversation she had with the principal of her son’s…
September 21, 2020 Back to School: COVID Edition Arkansas schools have been reopened for one month now. Let’s have an honest, grace-filled discussion about what we can all do going forward to…
March 13, 2020 Coronavirus: Why School Closure is Necessary In light of yesterday’s decision by Governor Asa Hutchinson and the Arkansas Department of Health to close schools in certain counties to help prevent…
February 24, 2020 An Intro to Universal Child Care Universal child care has always been a topic worthy of discussion, but the current election season has brought the issue to the forefront once…
February 17, 2020 An Ethics Complaint Has Been Filed Against Me. What Do I Do?!? You just received notice that an ethics complaint has been filed against you and will be investigated by the Arkansas Department of Education’s Professional…
January 30, 2020 What Do We Do About the Student Loan Crisis? Americans have accumulated over $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, which is now the second highest debt category in the United States, beating out…
January 22, 2020 Welcome to Educating Arkansas! The Arkansas Education Law Blog is now Educating Arkansas! As some of you have noticed, our website has been under construction for the past…
August 19, 2019 Arkansas School Laws Annotated Publication Now On Sale Just in time for the start of the school year, the Arkansas School Boards Association (ASBA) is now accepting pre-orders for the 2019-2020 Arkansas…
February 28, 2019 School Discipline That Works The following editorial was published by The Jonesboro Sun on Friday, February 22, 2019, on pages A4-A5. It was written by my colleague, Robin…
January 17, 2019 How to Stop a Bully – Part III This is the third post in a three-part series about what to do if your child is being bullied at school. In Part I,…