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Final day for public comment on proposed revisions to Arkansas math and english standards is here

The Arkansas Department of Education's Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) offers an opportunity for community feedback on grades K-12 English Language Arts (ELA) & K-8, Algebra I, and Geometry Mathematics standards that have been revised as required by Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2906 with input by Arkansas educators and community members with professional experience…

ByMHO Newsroom StaffMarch 24, 20230Comments

MHPS faces potential sanctions over failing to address distressed high school facility

Consequences may be coming. That was the message that state representatives sent to the Mountain Home School Board during their packed special meeting Monday evening on the need to update the district’s ailing high school. Roughly 150 people were in attendance.

ByChris FultonFebruary 9, 20230Comments

Education Feature News

MHHS Bomb Squad to compete in Arkansas Regional this weekend

Mountain Home High School’s robotics team, Bomb Squad, is officially on the road again this weekend after spending the week preparing for the Arkansas Regional at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. The squad is coming into the next competition fresh off the heels of ranking 4th in the Orland Regional they participated in earlier this…

ByChris FultonMarch 31, 20220Comments

Education News

ASUMH Approved by the Arkansas State Board of Nursing to Offer a Part-time LPN Program

If you can't go to school full-time but want to pursue nursing, ASUMH has a new program for you! The new part-time nursing program is 18 months long, five semesters, and 7-8 credit hours per semester. It will begin in June 2022. Students will graduate in December of 2023. Classes are currently scheduled to meet…

ByMHO Newsroom StaffJanuary 13, 20220Comments

Column Education

The Student Loan (Pandemic) Payment Pause

Just in case you’ve forgotten, there’s a student loan crisis in America. The amount owed in the U.S. is over $1.5 trillion dollars! (Yes, that’s with a T!) There hasn’t been a lot of attention given to that figure during 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with good reason. In March of 2020,…

ByMHO Newsroom StaffDecember 23, 20210Comments

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