Public education faces many challenges
Inadequate resources, concentrated poverty, higher workforce demands, administrator burnout, the need to raise expectations, and a shortage of teachers in critical areas. Too many schools lack resources. All students deserve a quality public education. Poorly performing public schools are ill-equipped and under-resourced.

There is a widening achievement gap between schools with resources and those without.

These challenges must be met.
The most important lesson we've learned is that students excel when they have a strong foundation to support them - a foundation that constantly challenges and empowers teachers and principals, that focuses and involves families and communities, and that fosters leadership from the classroom to the principal's office to the boardroom.

We play a unique role.

• We facilitate investments in public education by private, public, and philanthropic sources.
• We develop key relationships with parent groups, the city and the school district.

Our work will make a difference.

You can join our effort by giving to the Public Education Foundation
Your investment in the Public Education Foundation will….

• sponsor professional development for teachers
• mentor a principal
• support innovative teaching ideas
• recognize successes in the classroom
• participate in business roundtables
• recognize exemplary teachers
• support best practices that drive positive change
• communicate business needs that create a skilled workforce
• support efforts to retain and recruit great teachers
• encourage programs that inspire parent participation

Here’s how to give:
Please join us in improving the way students learn, teachers teach and communities care by

• filing out the donation card provided and mail it back to us
• or contacting our office for more information
• or contacting us online

The Public Education Foundation is a 501C3 nonprofit corporation. Contributions and pledges can be made over a three year period. Your support may come from contributions of cash, annual pledges, memorial gifts, real estate, stocks, planned giving, or other gifts in kind.

Make checks payable to:
Public Education Foundation of Little Rock
Mail to: 300 Spring Building, Suite 803, Little Rock, AR 72201
Telephone: 501-372-1461