Statement·self record·said 2026-04-08
“Thanks to LEARNS, 2,700 additional kids are at or above reading proficiency, and reading scores have risen in every grade level but one.”
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Verdict
Mixedby Arkansas Times
2026-04-09Reasoning
The 2,700 figure is real but represents about 0.5% of Arkansas's ~510,000 public-school and voucher students — a marginal gain on a program costing the state more than $300 million in one year.
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