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State Agricultural Services and Programs: Policy Options for Arkansas
Arkansas Public Policy Panel
Every state in the US other than Arkansas has a means of pulling the various agriculture-related offices, divisions, and/or agencies together under an entity charged with integrating agriculture policy, regulation and services. Because of our lack of integrated agricultural policy, Arkansas misses out on numerous opportunities that other states are aggressively pursuing, including: promotion; marketing; comprehensive agricultural development; policy analysis and development; exploration of long-term sustainability of Arkansas agriculture and rural communities.
Arkansas Public Policy Panel
Agriculture is the base of Arkansas' economy and culture, and it is undergoing traumatic changes that will continue to reverberate for years to come. The most significant change is a consolidation of farms -- we have fewer farms, but they are getting larger and larger.
Analyzing Arkansas’s Charter Schools – Unfulfilled Promises
Arkansas open enrollment charter schools, on average, have student populations that have fewer children of color and substantially fewer low-income children than their peer traditional public schools. Once these factors are controlled, Arkansas’s charter schools do not outperform their traditional school peers.
