. >> reporter: michael hester is the superintendent, he was losing teachers and having a hard time getting new ones to move to the rural town of 10,000 people. >> people are not in this business obviously for the money, but they should not have a vow to poverty to teach either. >> reporter: jeanie has been working five nights a week at the local community center just to make ends meet. but then she started hearing a rumor. >> oh, yeah, teachers love to talk. >> reporter: about an unusual solution to baitsville's budget problems. >> i was like, what is that really about? >> reporter: that would allow this school district to live up to its name. >> don't sleep on arkansas, we will surprise you every time. >> they took an unused field and filled with hundreds of solar panels and put up a new solar canopy stretching across the high school. nearly 1500 panels, aimed at recharging baitsville's budget. >> they are pioneers and they pioneered solar in arkansas. >> reporter: he workforce the legal energy compan that helped the district save for man $6,000 in utility costs. >> they did it in a time

. >> reporter: michael hester is batesville superintendent. he was losing teachers and getting new ones to move to this rural arkansas town of about 10,000 people. >> people aren't in this for the money, but they should not have a vow to poverty to teach either. >> reporter: jeannie roepcke has been working five nights a week at the local community center just to make ends meet. but then they started hearing a rumor. >> oh, yeah, teachers love to talk. >> reporter: about an unusual solution to batesville budget problems. >> what was that really about? >> reporter: that would allow this school district to truly live up to its name. >> don't sleep on arkansas, we'll surprise you every time. >> reporter: the school took an unused field out back and filled with hundreds of solar panels. also a solar canopy stretching across the front of the high school. in all, nearly 1500 panels aimed at recharging batesville's budget. >> batesville is pioneers, they did pioneer solar in arkansas. >> reporter: rich vance works for an manager company that helped t