Trey Steimel, Arkansas State Representative In the 8th week of the 2023 Regular Session, the House passedSB294. This bill creates the LEARNS Act and outlines several educational reforms. SB294 raises the minimum teacher salary to $50,000 a year and raises current teacher salaries by $2,000. It requires that students be reading at a 3rd-grade level before advancing to the 4th grade. It also calls for 120 reading coaches to be deployed statewide…
Voters in the Highland School District:We have had the good fortune of being selected to receive 6.3 million dollars as partnership money from the state toward construction of a new high school. Our current original buildings were begun in 1963 and have multiple structural issues that cannot be simply band-aided to continue use. A positive vote for the millage request made by the Board of Education and administration will give our students…
By Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge School has started and students are hard at work learning new routines, new skills and making friends along the way. From unsafe practices online to ill-informed choices, young Arkansans are increasingly at risk as they enter this new stage in life. Attorney General Rutledge is urging parents, teachers and guardians to learn more about how to protect their kids in their daily lives and online with…
Through a partnership with the US Department of Agriculture, Life360 Community Services is a nonprofit organization that provides meals to students in rural areas at the end of each school day.The organization has served over 10 million meals filling the hunger gap for thousands of children since its founding in 2016. The organization is on a mission to reverse poverty’s effects on rural families and communities. This year, Life360 is offering its…
Michale Riggs-Self and her Highland Middle School Art classroom have recently been selected to receive an Arkansas Art Educators Presidents Foundation Grant! She applied for this grant with the hopes of being able to purchase supplies/tools to expand the General Fiber Arts part of her classroom. She’ll use the grant money to purchase several things for her classroom including sewing machines. This will give students the opportunity to explore different aspects of…
