Arkansas’ 12 weeks of paid maternity leave for public school workers are only matched by Delaware, report says | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Arkansas’ 12 weeks of paid maternity leave for public school workers are only matched by Delaware, report says | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Olivia Organ, a science teacher and girls soccer coach at Bryant High School, said she became pregnant last January. When she first heard about the opportunity for roughly three months of paid maternity leave, she was skeptical -- but that leave ended up being a game changer.