CCSD Delivers Report to Public

RISON - Building administrators as well as Superintendent Davy King and Cleveland County Head Start Director Laura Stanfield all provided overviews of the 2023-24 school year during the Cleveland County School District’s annual Report to the Public held last Monday, Sept. 16, in the Rison Elementary auditorium.Rison Elementary Principal Angie Hudson and Rison High School Principal Letitia Walker both noted that this year’s report did not include much information regarding student performance on achievement tests since those results will not be available until October.How students perform, especially in regards to the state averages, is often a centerpiece of the annual Report to the Public.Public schools in Arkansas transitioned from the ACT Aspire tests to measure student achievement to the Arkansas Teaching and Learning Assessment System (ATLAS) tests under the state’s new LEARNS education plan.The results from the ACT Aspire tests were usually issued to the school districts in late spring while the ATLAS results will be released in October. Both achievement tests are administered during the spring semester. Here is a summary of each report given during the Report to the Public:Head StartStanfield said the Cleveland County Head Start program is the only Head Start program in the state that is administered through a public school district. She said there are 425 school districts nationwide that oversee Head Start programs.Cleveland County Head Start consists of five early childhood education programs: Early Head Start (infant to 3 years old) and Head Start (ages 3 to 5) are based at the Rison campus; .the Arkansas Better Chance (ABC), a state-funded early childhood education program, is operated on the Woodlawn School campus; the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) infant/toddler and after-school programs are also operated at Rison.Stanfield said Head Start serves 68 He...