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ForwARd Arkansas Conducts Survey, Plans Study of State Schools

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ForwARd Arkansas, a partnership of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Walton Family Foundation and Arkansas Board of Education, is asking educators, parents, students and other stakeholders to complete a survey on how to prepare Arkansas students for success in college and the workplace.

The survey, available at ForwardArkansas.org, is available until the middle of next month.

“As ForwARd works to improve our state’s education system, it’s critical that we get feedback from those who know our schools best — our students, teachers, parents and local community leaders,” Sherece West-Scantlebury, president and CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, said in a news release.

“Following careful review of this feedback, we will be able to develop a strategic plan for consideration by policy makers that will help advance education in our state and move Arkansas forward,” she said.

ForwARd says it will release a report later this month called “The State of Public Education in Arkansas.” The report will contain “baseline data on the state’s educational outcomes.” The group’s steering committee plans to release a comprehensive strategic plan by late spring.

Members of ForwARd’s steering committee include Shane Broadway, Toby Daughtery, Kim Davis, Bill Dillard III, Marcy Doderer, Matt Dozier, Bob East, Sen. Joyce Elliott, Melanie Fox, Lavina Grandon, Johnny Key, Tom Kimbrell, Ginny Kurrus, Michele Linch, Hugh McDonald, Justin Minkel, John Riggs, David Rainey, Scott Shirey, Ray Simon, Kathy Smith, Ladonna Spain, Bob Watson, Sherece West-Scantlebury, Darrin Williams, Kenya Williams and Diana Gonzales Worthen.

ForwARd Arkansas’ goal is “to help enhance student outcomes and educational opportunities.” It aims to develop “a comprehensive plan to guide state policy for P-16 education, with a focus on schools in academic distress.”

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