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Staff: Arkansas public schools operate under thousands of waivers; committee asks for detailed lists
Summary
Bureau analyst Julie Holt told the Senate committee that Arkansas public schools are operating under more than 10,000 waivers from state laws and rules, with 97% of students attending schools under at least one waiver; members requested district- and school-level waiver inventories and counts of denied requests.
Julie Holt, legislative analyst with the Bureau of Legislative Research, told the Senate Education Committee that state education records show more than 10,000 waivers from Arkansas statutes and rules in effect and that about 97% of public-school students attend a school operating under at least one waiver.
Holt traced the growth in waivers to successive statutory pathways: conversion charters (mid-1990s), open-enrollment charter expansion, the 2013 school-of-innovation pathway, Act 12-40 (district access to charter waivers), and the more recent Act 8-15 that expanded access…
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