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Four Arkansas residents have filed a lawsuit challenging a school voucher program created by an education overhaul signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders last year, saying it violates the state ...
The Arizona program survived a court challenge, ostensibly because tuition grants could go to religious schools. [20] Greater Opportunities for Access to Learning is the Georgia program that offers a state income tax credit to donors of scholarships to private schools. [21] [22] Representative David Casas passed school choice legislation in ...
A 2018 study by Abdulkadiroğlu et al. found that disadvantaged students who won a lottery (the Louisiana Scholarship Program) to get vouchers to attend private schools had worse education outcomes than disadvantaged students who did not win vouchers: "LSP participation lowers math scores by 0.4 standard deviations and also reduces achievement ...
The Arizona program survived a court challenge, ostensibly because tuition grants could go to religious schools. [20] Greater Opportunities for Access to Learning is the Georgia program that offers a state income tax credit to donors of scholarships to private schools. [21] [22] Representative David Casas passed school choice legislation in ...
The Arkansas Department of Education Distance Learning Center (ADE Distance Learning Center or ADE DLC) is a provider of real-time or synchronous elementary and secondary education classes for students throughout the state of Arkansas. The DLC currently teaches classes to almost 3,200 students, located at more than 100 schools around the state.
In 1989 and 1991, Clinton passed legislation for additional educational programs, which included making Arkansas the second U.S. state program to enable school choice, the merging of several small school districts for efficiency, the provision $1,000 annual collegiate scholarships for poor and middle-income pupils, increased teacher salaries ...
State Senate President Thomas Alexander and House Speaker Murrell Smith say they won’t challenge a recent South Carolina Supreme Court decision that invalidated parts of a school voucher program.
Prior to July 1, 2016, the three school districts within the county—Little Rock School District (LRSD), North Little Rock School District (NLRSD), and Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD)—have been involved in a desegregation case that the courts determined were unconstitutionally segregated and placed under court supervision since 1982.