Lawmakers will decide Friday whether to send an additional $32 million to Arkansas’ school voucher program, which has seen a large increase in participation after opening to all students for the first time last fall
An Arkansas lawmaker raised concerns about how to fund the state’s school voucher program in the future after advancing a request for more money that would raise its cost this year to nearly $310 million
As of Thursday morning, families had submitted 44,573 applications for this upcoming school year – the first when enrollment has been open to anyone
As Arkansas students head back to the classroom this month, around 12,000 will be attending one of more than 120 private schools that have been approved for the second year of the state’s school voucher program
More than two dozen private schools have applied as first-time participants in the second year of Arkansas’ school voucher program
