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LITTLE ROCK — Fifteen years since its launch, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery (ASL)continues to support Arkansas students. Since 2009, ASL has raised over $1.4 billion in scholarship proceeds for ...
Recent successful ballot initiatives in Arkansas were those allowing lottery proceeds to be used for vocational school scholarships and an amendment repealing the Pope County casino license. In the ...
In November, Arkansas voters approved an expansion of the state’s lottery-funded scholarships beyond four-year institutions of higher learning, making them available to technical and vocational ...
The bills would eliminate the lottery-financed Arkansas Concurrent Challenge Scholarship program and replace it with a concurrent credit program funded with state public school foundation funds.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' higher education overhaul legislation aims to increase access to the state's colleges and universities, make sure that students learn in a "free, unbiased setting," double ...
A recent report of scams has led Arkansas Scholarship Lottery officials to urge caution among players.
The Arkansas State Legislature may also place measures on the ballot as legislatively referred constitutional amendments or legislatively referred state statutes. The Arkansas Legislature can only ...
Alice Tran, director of Arkansas Welding Academy in Jacksonville said she has reservations on eligibility requirements that may impact students. Tran said she is only aware of the current requirements ...
Arkansas voters will decide in the Nov. 5 general election whether to change Arkansas' constitution to provide that lottery proceeds may be used to fund or provide scholarships and grants to Arkansans ...