Arkansas State Board of Education members voted unanimously to return full local control to the Pine Bluff School District immediately during a regular meeting Friday at the Pine Bluff Convention Center.
The 7-0 vote came five years after the state board responded to community members’ requests to take over a district that had just been placed under fiscal distress.
Arkansas' four-year public high school graduation rate fell slightly to 88.46% in the 2020-21 COVID-marred school year, compared with 88.8% in the preceding year.
Arkansas' four-year public high school graduation rate fell slightly to 88.46% in the 2020-21 covid-marred school year, compared with 88.8% in the preceding year.