STUDY ALERT: My Dept. of Ed. Reform colleagues found teacher compensation reforms in Sarah Huckabee Sanders 's LEARNS Act 'notably increased funding for rural & high-poverty districts, mitigating the negative association b/w starting salaries & district poverty rates.' edre.uark.edu/_resources/pdf…

And our recent research brief documenting administrators’ views of teacher salary changes under the Arkansas LEARNS Act here: edre.uark.edu/_resources/pdf…

For the detailed results check out our working paper here: edre.uark.edu/_resources/pdf…

Arkansas gave teachers a raise of between $2,000 and $14,000 this year.

How did it affect turnover and teacher hires in shortage areas? Check out Gema's thread and our new WP with Josh B. McGee Taylor Wilson and Miranda Vernon to see!

🚨NEW Dept. of Ed. Reform UA COEHP Working Paper🚨 Check out my new working paper with Andrew Camp Josh B. McGee Taylor Wilson Miranda Vernon 'Teacher Salary Raises and Turnover: Evidence from the First Year of the Arkansas LEARNS Act'
edre.uark.edu/_resources/pdf…

If you follow me you know that Arkansas has been making some big changes to teacher compensation. While these changes raise salaries for all teachers in AR, they're also controversial.

How are ed leaders in AR thinking about these changes and teacher comp?

Check out Gema's 🧵

As we wrap up the first school year under the Arkansas #LEARNSAct , we asked administrators across the state about their perspectives. My new Dept. of Ed. Reform UA COEHP research brief with Andrew Camp Josh B. McGee documents what we learned from their responses
edre.uark.edu/_resources/pdf…

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Four-day school weeks (4DSW) have become increasingly popular in recent years with a growth of 38% between 2019 and 2022. A major reason districts provide for making the change is to help better recruit and retain teachers.

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Come work with us Dept. of Ed. Reform . The role is a research assistant professor with OEP . You get to work with great data on impactful education policy projects with the wonderful Sarah McKenzie...and me. Apply at the link below.

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New paper out today challenging common myths about what's causing state and local pension debt.

The fastest growing causes of pension debt are actually (1) changes to actuarial assumptions, and (2) interest on the pension debt.

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Congrats to our OEP for securing a three-year grant from the Walton Family Foundation to enhance its research into early childhood education in Arkansas!

Read more:
news.uark.edu/articles/70360…

Thrilled that Sarah McKenzie & Josh B. McGee of the Dept. of Ed. Reform secured this grant to expand their vital research on PreK in Arkansas! Office for Education Policy Secures Grant to Expand Early Childhood Education Research news.uark.edu/articles/70360…

Promising stuff happening in Arkansas vis-à-vis addressing teacher shortages via TNTP tntp.org/publication/mo… #arleg #arpx

Check out the new TNTP report 'Moving Up
Promising Strategies to Address Teacher Shortages in Arkansas' Highlights several of our reports on the AR teacher pipeline and Salaries under LEARNS Dept. of Ed. Reform OEP Josh B. McGee Andrew Camp Taylor Wilson tntp.org/publication/mo…

I'm very excited that my work with Dr. Gema Zamarro (she/her) and Josh B. McGee (and the first chapter of my dissertation) has found a home at EEPA Editors!

Wonderful news this weekend and so excited for my student Andrew Camp . Our work with Josh B. McGee, one of Andrew’s PhD dissertation chapters, just accepted for publication at EEPA Editors 🎉 ! Andrew Camp now just crush that dissertation defense coming up Dept. of Ed. Reform