06/19/2026
⏰ With TWO WEEKS until our July 3rd signature deadline, For AR Kids volunteers are hosting MORE THAN 60 public signing opportunities across Arkansas this week:
☀️ Summer festivals and celebrations
🎤 Community events
🍉 Local farmers markets and parks
📘 Outside local libraries, churches, restaurants, grocery stores, and businesses
🚗 There are even opportunities to drive-thru and sign
✍️ Find all details about where to sign at www.forARkids.org/where-to-sign
👉 Helpful tip: You can sign the For AR Kids petition in a county other than the one you reside in. Just let the volunteer canvasser know, so they can make sure you sign on a petition that matches your home county.
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🎯 With Arkansas currently investing about $4K LESS PER STUDENT than the national average in its public education system—while its ever-ballooning EFA program operates by a separate set of standards and accountability—folks have varied, personal reasons for supporting the Arkansas Educational Rights Amendment, depending on their own family's or community's experiences.
🎈 ACCOUNTABILITY & GUARDRAILS
A key part of the reforms that For AR Kids is advocating for is increased accountability and stronger guardrails for Arkansas’ ever-ballooning EFA program that’s projected to siphon $380 MILLION of state tax dollars to just 44,000 (less than 10%) Arkansas students who use the funds to supplement the costs of private education and other “allowable expenses.”
💡 LEARNING BOOSTS
With more than 465,000 (MORE THAN 90%) of all Arkansas students attending local, public schools, we believe investing these public tax dollars into more thoughtful, truly-innovative strategies for schools that educate and support the majority of our children, would produce a much better return on investment for Arkansas' future.
Learn more at www.forARkids.org
