A lawsuit challenging Arkansas’s school voucher program is still standing, despite the Sanders administration’s attempt to get it thrown out of court.
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Cautionary tale: Arizona cuts infrastructure spending to cover vouchers
What state services will Arkansas cut to cover private school tuitions for well-to-do white families?
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Arkansans and their government stand at odds
History is spattered with the salivary bloviations of powerful people excoriating the activists who want things to change.
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LEARNS, lies and the Arkansas Legislature
Either they haven’t read the amendment, or they are deliberately trying to deceive the public. You decide.
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Here’s why we need the Arkansas Educational Rights Amendment
Level the playing field. If the Legislature won’t do it, we have to do it.
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Pro-voucher groups aim to intervene in lawsuit challenging LEARNS vouchers (UPDATED)
Taxpayer-funded discrimination, benefits going disproportionately to the rich, and a state budget busted to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Such is the scene in Arizona, which is just a bit ahead of Arkansas on the universal school voucher path.
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Washington Post highlights national trend of public funding for religious private schools
Public money is increasingly going to pay tuition at religious private schools.
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Arkansas Educational Rights Amendment organizers say they’re ‘nearing the halfway mark’ on signatures for the 2024 ballot
A grassroots effort to ensure equitable educational opportunities and hold publicly funded private schools accountable is collecting signatures and facing well-funded opposition: “We’ve been attacked by billionaires and millionaires with a big-money campaign aimed to dismantle our public schools.”
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The voucher funding rip-off
Former Little Rock School District superintend Baker Kurrus argues that the funding for vouchers, woven into the state’s complicated system for funding K-12 schools, violates the state constitution and moves us backward on thorny issues of equity that the state has been trying to address for decades.
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Austerity Sarah: Governor’s budget is generous to private school families, stingy for everyone else
Unlike her father, Sanders appears to be a doctrinaire right-winger when it comes to spending — except on vouchers. The cost of LEARNS vouchers is roughly tripling, from $31.7 million in fiscal year 2024 to $97.5 million in fiscal year 2025.