School meal prices

Fayetteville School Board members unanimously approved a bump in the price for student breakfasts and lunches for the 2017-18 school year. Lunches for students who pay the full price will increase 10 cents to $2.75 for elementary schools and 5 cents to $2.95 for middle, junior high and high schools. Breakfast prices will increase 5 cents to $1.75 for all schools. and Karm Prock as director of gifted and talented and Advanced Placement programs.

Prock has been the gifted and talented coordinator for Searcy School District since 2013 and also spent 15 years as the gifted and talented specialist for the Wilbur Mills Educational Cooperative in Beebe. She’s president of Arkansans for Gifted and Talented Education.

Hatch has been director of technology for Springdale School District for 12 years. Hatch has enjoyed working for Springdale but wanted a new challenge, he said. His initial focus will be getting to know the Fayetteville staff and looking at the needs of each campus.

“Exciting changes are happening,” Hatch said of Fayetteville. “It’s exciting to be a part of that.”

Hatch also is an adjunct instructor and executive in-residence for the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. He has experience as a network administrator at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Pediatrics in Little Rock.