Education groups call for scrapping Arkansas’s school voucher program

Education groups call for scrapping Arkansas’s school voucher program

Consistent with national data demonstrating the ineffectiveness of private school vouchers to improve academic outcomes, the recently released biennial report on Succeed Vouchers (the “2020 Report”) reveals several troubling findings. It shows stark data challenges in ascertaining the program’s academic effects; however, the academic achievement information that could be collected from student participants reveals low test scores for the majority of voucher recipients. The report also exposes inequitable enrollment statistics, troubling data inconsistences, and little accountability for Arkansas’ public funds spent on this program.