The Arkansas Pygmalion Commission on Nontraditional Education (Commission) acts to focus public attention on the need for alternative education programming. It serves as a clearinghouse for information regarding alternative learning environments (ALE), and works to ensure that needed changes are made in curriculum, instructional approaches, school climate, and organization to improve educational outcomes for all students. 

The Commission's constintuency is Arkansas students who are not being sufficiently educated in the current public school system, and it promotes development of sound ALEs to avoid consequences to all Arkansans that will result if nothing is done to better prepare these students.

This problem area has a proven solution. The keys are recognizing and identifying how the system is failing a student, and doing so early enough to provide meaningful intervention, then adapting or altering the system to meet that student's educational needs. Arkansas schools exist solely for benefit of their students, and the schools must adapt to the student's educational needs.