The Little Rock School District is seeking to join a federal lawsuit challenging the Educational Freedom Accounts created under the LEARNS Act of 2023. Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is seen here signing the lawl on March 8, 2023. (Photo by John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate)
Arkansas’ third-largest school district asked a federal court Friday to let it intervene in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s school voucher program.
In a motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, the Little Rock School District also argued that the Educational Freedom Account program hurts public schools by diverting public funds “to support a separate system of private sectarian schools to the detriment of LRSD and other Arkansas public school districts.”…