To the members of the 94th General Assembly: Arkansas families need your help. Young children spend years in Arkansas child-care centers often from infancy only to enroll in kindergarten ill-equipped and lacking the basic skills necessary for success. Parents are finding out, too late, that the program they hand-selected and invested in for years didn t prepare their children for elementary school.
The Farmington School District is submitting an application to the Arkansas Department of Human Services to open a prekindergarten program for the 2023-24 school year, according to Jon Laffoon, superintendent of schools.
More Arkansas children need prekindergarten classes, and increasing access to such classes would rank high on her priorities if elected, Republican gubernatorial nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday.
Arkansas has dropped from No. 39 to No. 43 in overall child well-being, according to this year s Kids Count Data Book, which was released today by the Annie E. Cassie Foundation.
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