Document Type
Report
Publication Date
11-29-2017
Series Number
Volume 14 Issue 1
Keywords
School funding, teacher base salary
Abstract
School funding has been an area of contention in the courts of nearly every state. Many of these court cases have challenged the constitutionality of state funding formulas, arguing the funding system was inadequate or inequitable because poor urban or rural districts often faced a disadvantage in garnering tax dollars for education. Specific to Arkansas, in the 1983 decision Dupree v. Alma School District, the Arkansas Supreme Court declared the state’s funding system was not meeting its constitutional requirements.
Citation
Kopotic, K. M., McKenzie, S. C., & Ritter, G. W. (2017). Comprehensive Analysis of Arkansas Teacher Salaries: State, Region, and District. Arkansas Education Reports. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/oepreport/2