Arkansas’ Competitive School Program Proves Parents Want Choice

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In 2023 Arkansas Republicans passed a giant overhaul of the state’s K-12 education system that Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders eagerly signed. The Education Freedom Accounts law phased in a program of school choice for the state’s parents.

During the first two years school vouchers — payments the state gives parents that they can use for private schools or homeschooling — were limited to 1.5% in the first year and 3% in the second year of total government school enrollment.

That worked out to 7,100 in the first year and 14,000 in the next…

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