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Question: How does my child or student participate in License to Learn?
Answer: Schools formally registered for the three year program during the 2004-2005 school year. Registration for this year closed on April 1, 2006. Announcement for open enrollment for future school registrations will be posted on the website and through assistance from the Department of Education. Students who will be in the 4th through 6th grade during the 2005-2006 school year will be eligible for the License to Learn program. School principals will be asked to supply cumulative student eligibility data directly to the Arkansas Committed to Education Foundation following the student’s 6th grade year.

Question: What are the program criteria?
Answer: Students must make a proficient score on math and literacy portions of the Arkansas ACCTAP benchmark exams taken in the sixth grade and have a 95 percent attendance record from the second through sixth grades to qualify for any technology prize. Students must also have attended Arkansas Public Schools for three complete years ending with their 6th grade year at a school registered in the License to Learn program to be eligible to participate.

Question: Where can I get a Committed to Education license plate?
Answer: These license plates may be purchased by mail or in person at one of the 14 revenue offices around the state. Click on this Plate Ordering Information link for more details.

Question: What is the cost for these plates? How will the technology incentives be funded?
Answer: State legislation was passed in 2001 authorizing a new special license plate – the Committed to Education license plate. These plates are sold for $35 plus the normal cost of vehicle registration. Twenty-five ($25) of each plate sold goes directly to the Foundation to fund the purchase of technology incentives while ten dollars ($10) per plate goes to the Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration (DF&A) to cover their costs.

Question: What if a student has transferred from another school or moved into Arkansas from out-of-state at any point between 2nd and 6th grade academic years? Are they still eligible for the award?
Answer: A transfer student is eligible as long as the student has attended Arkansas public schools for at least three complete years ending with their 6th grade year at a school registered in the License to Learn program.

Question: How many kids will benefit?
Answer: Initially, proceeds from the Committed the Education license plate will fund incentives for an estimated 3,500 students with anticipated annual growth of 10 percent each year thereafter. The first round of technology incentive prizes will be awarded in late 2006 to qualifying students who completed the 6th grade during the 2005-2006 school year.

Question: After achieving all the criteria, when will children receive the technology incentive prizes?
Answer: In the fall of 2006 after sixth grade Benchmark exams are received and student eligibility information from the principals is verified by the Foundation.

Question: What is the Committed to Education Foundation?
Answer: The Committed to Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with two primary goals:

To motivate students to maximize their academic achievement, and
To promote a positive public awareness of education in Arkansas through the creation of a license plate sporting the line “Committed to Education.”

Question: Who is responsible for the Committed to Education program?
Answer: The program was the idea of a Leadership Greater Little Rock class and is now administered through the Arkansas Committed to Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) private, nonprofit organization.

Question: How can people in the community become involved?
Answer: There are hosts of ways in which parents, area businesses and civic organizations can get involved with the program. Contact the Foundation Coordinator to find out specifics or click on the License to Learn navigation link.

Question: Who designed the license plate?
Answer: Please add information from the home page article regarding the addition of the second plate designed in 2004 by Robert Howard of Charleston