POLICY DEVELOPMENT
Flyer, Rally for Rural Arkansas
Make Your Voice Heard
Tips for Meeting or Rally
Halt school consolidation
Transportation study
We're rural Arkansas
What rural Arkansas needs
ACRE members identify and prioritize policy issues in a collaborative process during the annual summer conference.
2009 Policy Agenda:
#1. Repeal Act 60. Consolidated districts should return closed school buildings to the communities that paid for them.
#2. More money for rural schools
#3. Money for economic development and training programs in small communities
#4. State grants and low-interest loans for Rural Enterprise Zones.
#5. Grants for youth enterprises
#6. Different method of choosing State Board of Education
#7. Broadband Internet infrastructure in rural areas
#8. Recall of elected officials
#9. Commission to study update of vocational training
#10. Rural transportation services.
ACRE members debate policy issues
Legislators - Legislators meet with ACRE members to hear their concerns
Ron Crawford with Rep. Nancy Duffy Blount
