ROGERS, Arkansas – When Sarah Huckabee-Sanders was elected Arkansas governor, she quickly made education reform the focus of her term. The former press secretary to President Donald Trump also vowed to make school choice a key part of those efforts.
Today, Arkansas is one of 14 states that offer public funds for students to attend private schools. We visited a family who opted-in to find out if the new voucher program could make a lasting impact.
The halls are bustling at Providence Academy here in Rogers. The private classical Christian school is at capacity with 580 students, and 71 of those students are enrolled through the state’s new school voucher program.
Kira Workman, an 8th grader, told us, “We toured like a bunch of different schools to see which one would be the best fit and it was just like something – a sign from God – that Providence just had something like, whoa, this is above all the other places.”
Providence Academy in Rogers, Arkansas is part of the school voucher program.
Kira is thriving in the Christian environment. And her mom says she couldn’t be happier after watching Kira struggle in public school.
“Public school was not a
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