Arkansas Policy Foundation gives Conway an "A"

Quoted from this news item on the Conway Public School website: "18 state school districts get A's
Group bases grades on Iowa test results

BY CYNTHIA HOWELL ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Eighteen Arkansas school districts earned A's or A-minuses, and 14 other systems received failing marks in the latest in a series of Arkansas Policy Foundation studies.

The nonprofit policy foundation, which advocates for improvements in state tax laws and public education, based the letter grades on the results earned by ninth-graders in each of the districts on the spring 2007 Iowa Test of Basic Skills. The Iowa test is a nationally standardized test that compares the achievement levels of Arkansas students with a national sample of students who took the same test."