January 2014

Archives for January 2014

In Plain English: AR SB 233

Summary SB 233 (Act 1309) (Open States or Arkansas Legislature) raises the cap at any K-12 open-enrollment public charter virtual school from 500 students to 3,000 students. Students in the 2,500 additional slots must have been enrolled in an Arkansas public school for the first three quarters of the prior school year. The legislation also maintains funding for…

Smart Policy in the Age of Disruption

The classroom of the future is not a fixed blueprint. Just like a record producer in 1974 could barely imagine the world of music in 2014, so the future of education is one which will look little as it does now, evolving and morphing  along with the needs of the students and the advances in…