Who We Are
For AR Kids is a grassroots coalition running a ballot measure to amend the Education clause of the Arkansas Constitution.
The coalition is now made up of nearly half a dozen organizations so far: Arkansas Education Association (AEA), Arkansas Conference of the NAACP, the Arkansas Public Policy Panel, The Arkansas Retired Teachers Association, Stand Up Arkansas, and Citizens First Congress (CFC).
The newly-formed Ballot Question Committee (BQC) named "For AR Kids" announced Thursday, Dec 21st, 2023 its plans to place a ballot initiative on the 2024 ballot that will amend the education article of the Arkansas Constitution to:
Require any school receiving any amount of public funds to follow the same standards that traditional public schools are required to follow;
Establish the minimum quality standards ordered by the Arkansas Supreme Court in 2002 in its Lakeview decision; and
Guarantee voluntary universal access to pre-K for 3-4 year olds, afterschool & summertime programming, quality special education, and wrap around services for children within 200% of the Federal Poverty Line.
