FIFTEEN PRIVATE SCHOOLS APPROVED

FOR SUCCEED SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

"The most callused aspect of the current education monopoly in Arkansas is that it willingly and deliberately forces children--except those whose parents have wealth--to attend bad schools. And it does so with financial resources taken from parents already struggling financially and at the expense of their ability to choose a better school for their sons and daughters.” Policy Foundation report, September 1998

(August 2016) Fifteen Arkansas private schools have received approval from the state Department of Education (ADE)¹to participate in the Succeed Scholarship Program, Arkansas' first non-public school choice program. According to the Little Rock-based Reform Alliance, the program "is open to any Private School Applicants that are accredited."²

The following Arkansas private schools have been approved for the program:

· Arkansas Christian Academy (Bryant)

· Christ The King (Fort Smith)

· Christ Luther School (Little Rock)

· Fayetteville Christian School (Fayetteville)

· Immaculate Conception School (Fort Smith)

· Immaculate Conception School (North Little Rock)

· Prism Education Center (Fayetteville)

· Shiloh Christian School (Springdale)

· St. Boniface School (Fort Smith)

· St. Edward's Catholic School (Little Rock)

· St. John's Catholic School (Hot Springs)

· St. Joseph's Catholic School (Fayetteville)

· Trinity Catholic Junior High School (Fort Smith)

· Trinity Christian School (Texarkana)

· Union Christian Academy (Fort Smith)

Arkansas became the 25th state to enact a non-public school choice program when policymakers created the Succeed Scholarship Program in 2015.

--Greg Kaza