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Elementary school children in the Little Rock School District will start the school day earlier and end it later in the coming 2023-24 school year, the Little Rock School Board decided Thursday.

LRSD school day hours under review

Leaders of two Arkansas school districts and an electrical power utility shared a podium Wednesday to announce that Entergy Arkansas will partner with two high schools to provide courses of study in the field of energy.

The Little Rock School Board on Thursday approved 2023-24 salary schedules for all employees, setting the salary for a beginning teacher with a bachelors degree at $50,000, as required by the newly passed Arkansas LEARNS Act.

The Little Rock School District, a victim of a 2022 data security attack, is telling its past and present employees, student families and vendors that there is no evidence that their personal data has been "viewed, used or misused."

Little Rock School District leaders late last week dived into the new Arkansas LEARNS Act and what it will mean in terms of employee salary schedules and operating policies for the coming 2023-24 school year.

Little Rock School District leaders late last week dived into the new Arkansas LEARNS Act and what it will mean in terms of employee salary schedules and operating policies for the coming 2023-24 school year.

School districts in tornado-ripped Pulaski County are pushing toward a return to normal operating procedures after a storm wiped out a long swath of homes, businesses, trees and utilities Friday afternoon.

Principal e-mails about storm peril

J. Steven Helmick, principal of Little Rocks Don R. Roberts Elementary, has shaved his head, been taped to a wall, run a mile for each of 168 fifth-graders and camped out on the school roof more than once to motivate and honor students.