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'Arkansas school vouchers'

House defeats bill that included school voucher provision

The House today failed to pass the state treasurer's office appropriation, which included a controversial school voucher provision. The vote was 56-22 and 11 not voting, with 75 needed for passage.
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Governor proposes more spending on charter schools and school vouchers

The squeaky billionaires get the grease. School "choice" ideas favored by the richest people in Arkansas — school vouchers and state money for charter school buildings — are getting additional support from Gov. Asa Hutchinson
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The Trump administration attack on public education

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos hopes to do to the country what she did for Michigan, devastate real public schools in the name of the false allure of "choice."

'Vouchers Found to Lower Test Scores in Washington Schools'

Another study shows school "choice" — private school vouchers in Washington, D.C. — didn't help the disadvantaged students it was supposed to help. In fact, it made things worse.
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School choice: In Florida, it lacks accountability. Arkansas, too.

Remember when Arkansas legislators claimed Florida was a shining example of school-voucher-style scholarship programs? Save this report for their next run on public money for private schools.

School voucher bill defeated on 43-50 vote

The House today defeated SB 746 to begin a school voucher program to put public money in private schools.
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School vouchers: A tale of resistance in two red states

Texas and Arkansas, two deeply red states, have proved resistant to school voucher bills. That has only increased the pressure from rich lobbies who favor sending public money to private schools.

School voucher bill approved in House committee

The House Education Committee today approved SB 746 to put $3 million a year into a program to give public money to send children to private schools, essentially a voucher program.
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School voucher program gets 62 percent increase in tax money

A little-noticed amendment has increased authorized state spending on a private school voucher program by 62 percent.

Senate approves school voucher bill

The Arkansas Senate today approved, 22-5, a school voucher bill, a pilot program that will provide payment to private schools for almost 700 students a year for four years.
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Revived voucher-like bill clears Senate committee

A controversial bill that would establish education savings accounts to be used at parents' discretion to fund private school and other education costs passed in a voice vote with some dissent in the Senate Education committee Monday.

Senate try planned for school voucher bill; flaws remain

Ibby Caputo, reporting for the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network on Thursday's defeat of a House school voucher bill, says that Sen. Bart Hester plans to amend legislation in the Senate to incorporate the plan and perhaps try to start it moving in the Senate next week.
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