Arkansas
Arkansas has two private school choice programs: a school voucher program and a tax-credit scholarship program.

Arkansas offers K–12 students and their families various types of school choice, including two private school choice program—a school voucher and tax-credit scholarship—as well as charter schools, magnet schools, homeschooling and traditional public school choice via open enrollment.
Philanthropic Investment in Arkansas Kids Scholarship Program
- Arkansas offers tax credits to individuals and businesses that support scholarship-granting organizations (SGOs), nonprofits that provide private school scholarships to students from families earning up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
- Enacted 2021
Program Rules:
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- Income Limit: 200 percent x Poverty
- Prior Year Public School Requirement: Yes, with exceptions
- Geographic Limit: Statewide
- Enrollment Cap: None
- Scholarship Cap: $5,614 (K–8) / $6,316 (9–12)
- Testing Mandates: Nationally norm-referenced tests
- Credit Value: 100 percent
- Per Donor Credit Cap: none
- Total Tax Credit Cap: $2 million
Succeed Scholarship Program
- Arkansas provides private school vouchers to students in foster care, students with disabilities and the children of active-duty or reserve members of the U.S. military. Students who fall under these categories must have previously attended public school, unless they are children of active-duty military families or they receive a waiver from their school district.
- Enacted 2015
Program Rules:
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- Income Limit: None
- Prior Year Public School Requirement: Yes, with exceptions
- Geographic Limit: Statewide
- Enrollment Cap: None, except students in foster care are capped at 20
- Maximum voucher amount: $7,182
- Testing Mandates: Nationally norm-referenced tests
- Additional Information: Limited to students with special needs, in foster care, or dependents of U.S. military personnel