For AR Kids is a grassroots coalition running a ballot measure to amend the education clause of the Arkansas Constitution. 

Currently the coalition is made up of: 

• Arkansas Education Association (AEA)

• Arkansas Conference of the NAACP

• Arkansas Public Policy Panel

• The Arkansas Retired Teachers Association

• Citizens First Congress (CFC)

Our 2026 ballot initiative will amend the education article of the Arkansas Constitution to:

1. Require any school receiving any amount of public funds to follow the same standards that traditional public schools are required to follow;

2. Establish the minimum quality standards ordered by the Arkansas Supreme Court in 2002 in its Lakeview decision; and

3. 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.