A bill establishing a universal school choice program cleared the Arkansas state legislature Tuesday and now heads to the desk of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR).
School choice proponents were quick to celebrate the news of the bill's passage, which will see Arkansas join Iowa, Arizona, Utah, and West Virginia on the list of states with universal school choice programs.
“America’s new divide is increasingly between states where students have few options besides geographically assigned district schools—unless parents can afford to send their children to private schools or homeschool—and states that trust parents to make the best decisions for their children’s education," Jason Bedrick, a education policy research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the.
The bill had been opposed by the Arkansas Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, which criticized the legislature for quickly passing the bill quickly"without meaningful discussions."“The voices of hundreds of educators, parents, disability advocates and others have been ignored by those who represent us," union President Carol Fleming said after the bill passed the state House.
Fleming continued, “The best decisions for our students are made with teachers and parents at the table. Educators have spent countless hours combing through the bill’s 144 pages and each time we come away with more questions than answers. At every turn, our requests to meet with the governor or the bill’s authors have been ignored or deflected.
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