Jalen Sereal (right), then a student at LISA Academy North, shows Jeremy Owoh a solar car project in this Feb. 15, 2018 file photo. Sereal and other LISA Academy students were building the car. Owoh, who was then the assistant commissioner on the Arkansas Department of Education's Charter Authorizing Panel, later became the superintendent of the Jacksonville North Pulaski School District. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette file photo)
As districts in Arkansas prepare for the implementation of the LEARNS Act, six work groups are being assembled by the state Department of Education to develop recommendations for its rules and policies.
These work groups will each focus on a specific topic: school safety; early learning; parental empowerment; teaching and learning; educator workforce and career readiness, according to a memo from the agency.
Friday was the deadline to apply to participate in the groups. Over 1,000 people submitted applications, Education Department Secretary Jacob Oliva said during an online forum on Wednesday.
"We're going to start bringing in experts and leaders from all over the state to sit around with staff here at the department to start drafting rules," Oliva said in an interview the previous week.
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