Little Rock School District

It is one of four public school districts in Pulaski County and encompasses 97.60 square miles (252.8 km2) of land nearly coterminous with the state's capital and largest city.

In October 2014, the Special Committee on Academic Distress met with the Little Rock School District administration.

On January 28, 2015, the State Board of Education met for more than five hours before voting 5–4 to immediately take over the Little Rock School District.

As part of the takeover, Superintendent Dexter Suggs was allowed to remain in his position on an interim basis and the LRSD school board was immediately disbanded.

After numerous actions were satisfied, including incorpating those schools within the City of Little Rock boundaries to be unitary with the LRSD.

One of them, the Parham School (built in 1908), was in the construction path of the proposed Interstate 630, so much of the funding for its replacement came from the state highway and transportation departments.

The Rockefeller Early Childhood Program provides educational experiences and child care for children aged six weeks to three years.

It was developed to determine the effects of a high-quality education coupled with an extended-day childcare program on children who were from six months of age through the sixth grade in school.

The extra funds it receives allows the school to retain a full-time nurse and Early Childhood Coordinator as well as specialists in art, music, physical education, technology and media.

TAP helps teachers become the best they can be by giving them opportunities to learn better teaching strategies and compensates them based on their performance.

Rockefeller also offers an early childhood education program, accepting infants as young as six weeks of age.