The Beebe High School was broken into and damaged. Now police are looking for who's responsible.

Big questions loom for lawmakers looking to fund Arkansas classrooms for the next two years. Many met Tuesday to tackle education issues before the next session starts in January.

Rising enrollment is causes financial strain at the University of Central Arkansas. To help ease the pain $4.5 million has been cut from scholarship funding.

After years of resisting, the Pulaski County Special School District says yes to a Jacksonville school district.

Arkansas lawmakers will have to decide whether offering teachers the same health insurance plan as other state workers is required under a Supreme Court decision on school funding. It's a decision that could add hundreds of million of dollars to a state budget already being drafted.

Hazen annexed the De Valls Bluff School District when student population dropped. But De Valls Bluff parents say the Hazen schools are not ready for the extra 200 students.

Governor Beebe says it will take some funding to get a task force's recomendations put into place but he's committed to seeing it happen.

Over 1,800 Cabot high schoolers are trading in summer fun for time in an award winning school. Over the summer, the school won the 2009 Pacesetter award from High Schools That Work.

Just a few years ago the future of Academics Plus Charter School was uncertain. Financial difficulties and low enrollment threatened to shut the school down.

It's just a matter of days until public school students in Arkansas return to the books. This year, many students will be returning to schools that are running out of money!

While most students still have a few weeks left of summer vacation, students at the new e-Stem Charter School in downtown Little Rock have almost two weeks under their belts.

Hundreds of students got up bright and early Monday for the first day of school. These students are the first to report to the new eStem Charter School in Downtown Little Rock.

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It's back to school in less than a week for more than 800 Little Rock area students. The new eStem school is opening next Monday with an extended school day and an extended school year.

The state Board of Education on Monday decided to take over the financially troubled Greenland School District rather than annex it to a neighboring district.

Students in Little Rock go back to school on August 18th and the Little Rock Police Department wants every student to have the gear they need to hit the books.

Parts of the state need more after school programs. That's just one of the findings released Monday in a Clinton School study.

Literacy proficiency, listed by school district, for Arkansas students in grades 3-8, according to the state benchmark exams administered in April. The table shows school district and the percentage of students in each grade found proficient or advanced in literacy. The data was released Friday by the Arkansas Department of Education. Listings by school are available at http://www.arkansased.org/testing/test-scores.html

The state Board of Education approved a new code of ethics for Arkansas' 60,000 licensed teachers Monday, despite concerns from a teachers union that implementing the rules too quickly would create a "gotcha" mentality in schools.

The Arkansas Supreme Court rules in favor of the Little Rock School District saying the school board's decision to pay former superintendent Roy Brooks over $600,000 in severance was constitutional.

In Lonoke County, when the doors close for summer at England Middle School, they will never open again.

Federal education officials are investigating a complaint by a former teacher at Farmington School District over its English as a second language course.

The Little Rock School Board's racially split vote last year to fire its superintendent and pay him $635,000 has prompted a review by Arkansas' highest court on whether such buyouts violate the state's constitution.

Hundreds of high schoolers are thinking about quitting class! A new report shows that the number of dropouts is on the rise.

It’s budget time for school districts across the country and many need to make cuts. The Bryant School District is no different and everything is on the table and that includes the school resource officer program.

The Little Rock School District wants to find out if it makes sense to open a new middle school in west Little Rock. UALR just wrapped up a phone survey of the parents of fourth and fifth graders to find out what they think.

Thursday night the Little Rock School Board voted 4-3 to offer Dr. Linda Watson a 3 year contract as school superintendent.

Parents of students in the Marvell-Elaine public school district are fed up with violence and other disruptions within the schools. They say the school board is ignoring their cries for help.

Voters in Bald Knob have overwhelmingly approved a temporary sales tax to benefit the town's cash-strapped school.

Voters in Bald Knob will decide Tuesday on a temporary sales tax that supporters say could save the local school district.

For the Little Rock School Board, it's the very first meeting since the heated run-off election earlier this month.

The Conway Public School District has been over-spending by millions of dollars. While the district has not yet been classified as being in financial distress, if they continue on their path they could be taken over by the state.

It’s Election Day again for the Little Rock School Board. Micheal Daugherty has won the school board elections.

The heated run-off election for the Little Rock School Board seat continues. Wednesday night the two candidates fighting for the position faced off for the first time since the general election in a forum sponsored by the NAACP.

For most kids, school can be a chore. But for a special group of Arkansas kids, attending class makes them feel like normal kids.

Civil-rights lawyer John Walker says he filed a brief in the Little Rock schools desegregation case Monday which is the deadline. Walker is appealing a judge's decision earlier this year that LRSD was free from court supervision.

The Little Rock School Board approved the largest budget ever. It includes more money for teachers and pays out for two lawsuits against the district.

In Arkansas, as in other states, public schools are contending with the extra expense of feeding school children who don't quality for the federal free-lunch program and whose parents don't send them to school with lunch money.

The Arkansas Supreme Court steps into the Roy Brooks controversy, ordering the district to stop payment of his buyout. But the district says it's a day late and several dollars short.

The Little Rock School District moves forward, officially ending the Roy Brooks era as superintendent.