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Jeannie Roberts
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Journalist, Arkansas Times
Little Rock
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By Jeannie Roberts| Arkansas Times Verified When Andy Chisum took over three years ago as superintendent of the Mayflower School District he recognized right away that something was very wrong. “Our teacher attrition rate was awful,” he said. The Mayflower district is surrounded by bigger ones like Conway, Cabot and Pulaski County — districts that could offer higher salaries. “At that time, we were paying the state minimum salary, which was $36,000. That’s all we could afford,” Chisum said.
By Jeannie Roberts| Arkansas Times Verified Student First Technologies, based in Bloomington, Indiana, won the contract to handle the finance side of school vouchers in the second year of Arkansas LEARNS. The company replaces Kleo Inc., which does business as ClassWallet, who provided the online platform to distribute Educational Freedom Accounts and literacy tutoring funds for the 2023-24 school year, the first year of the voucher program.
By Jeannie Roberts| Arkansas Times Verified When Andy Chisum took over three years ago as superintendent of the Mayflower School District he recognized right away that something was very wrong. “Our teacher attrition rate was awful,” he said. The Mayflower district is surrounded by bigger ones like Conway, Cabot and Pulaski County — districts that could offer higher salaries. “At that time, we were paying the state minimum salary, which was $36,000. That’s all we could afford,” Chisum said.
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Arkansas Times
Arkansas Times print advertisers reach over 100,000 readers or about 25% of the adults in Central Arkansas – each week. Arktimes.com advertisers reach over 180,000. Our readers are primarily college educated and employed professionals. They're active in their community and therefore plugged into the content of Arkansas Times, which offers an authoritative mix of political and cultural reporting seasoned by wit and a keen sense of place.
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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Founded: 1974