Improving Education -- A Proposed Solution to the LEARNS Salary Issue
It's July 3rd. Next month Arkansas educators will return to school the Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' new LEARNS Act in place. The new law--a revolutionary overhaul of Arkansas's public education system--aims to guarantee access to a high quality education to every Arkansas student. Still, it is vehemently opposed by many Arkansas educators and the Arkansas Education Association (teacher's union.) NOTE: I used the Vilonia School District salary schedules and the distribution of education and experience among Vilonia School District certified staff to build and evaluate these models. Though this post is not to advise or make suggestions to the Vilonia School District administration. I just happen to work at Vilonia, and I'm familiar with where this information is located and how to access it. These models would need tweaking for any other district to achieve similar goals to what I describe here. One of the biggest sources of LEARNS discontent I've heard from ...