Antoinette Grajeda

Lindsay Rankin, a special education teacher in the Springdale School District, was named the 2027 Arkansas Teacher of the Year Thursday. 

The Arkansas State Board of Education on Wednesday authorized an election allowing some Pulaski County voters to decide whether to establish a new Sherwood School District. 

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy urged Arkansas business leaders to consider creative solutions to funding infrastructure projects during a visit to the state’s 3rd Congressional District Monday. 

The Joint Education Committee recommended Monday that Arkansas increase the per-student funding directed to public schools by more than 2% over the next two years. 

Arkansas education leaders celebrate groundbreaking of STEM-focused university at former Walmart HQ

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Democratic state Sen. Fred Love and Libertarian Colt Shelby said they would address affordability, healthcare, education and the state’s prison system if elected governor, but differ in their strategies. 

A $10 million Walmart Foundation grant will support a new statewide initiative designed to tackle food insecurity in the country’s hungriest state, the Arkansas Community Foundation announced Friday. 

Action is needed to address the uninsured rate for Arkansas children, which remains at its highest level in a decade, according to an Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families report released Wednesday. 

The Arkansas Department of Health will host free community flu vaccine clinics across the state beginning Monday. 

A new Bentonville healthcare campus backed by billionaire philanthropist Alice Walton will increase Arkansans’ access to specialty care and a “whole person” approach to medicine, she said at a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday.