THV11 ArkansasLITTLE ROCK, Ark. — On Thursday, the Arkansas State Board of Education grilled officials from some of Arkansas’s lower-performing school districts.
The discussion stemmed from the November release of grades for every school district in Arkansas based on student performance and growth.
There were 11 districts that received an ‘F”, and at the state board meeting on Thursday, six of them presented their plans to change that — including four in central Arkansas.
“What is going to be different in the next two years that you’ve identified didn’t work in the previous four?” Jeff Wood, a State Board member, asked Gregory Pilewski, Superintendent of the North Little Rock School District.
Pilewski responded by touting a new system in which all the schools in his district will be split into tw
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