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[State] Arkansas [Score] 0 [Charter Law Description] 
Per Arkansas law, a conversion charter school receives funds equal to the amount apportioned by the district from state and local revenue per average daily membership. Per Arkansas law, an open enrollment charter school receives funds equal to the amount that a public school would receive, as well as any other funding that the public charter school is entitled to receive under law. In reality, traditional districts are allowed to levy mileages (i.e., property taxes) that open enrollment schools do not have access to. In reference to transportation, Arkansas law provides charter schools the same per pupil base amount for transportation as public school districts. In a recent national study of charter school funding (University of Arkansas, Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands, 2014), Arkansas charter schools were receiving on average $7,451 per pupil in public funds, while traditional public schools would have received $11,441 for those students. As a result, the state’s charter schools were receiving $3,990 per pupil—or 34.8 percent—less than what the traditional public schools would have received for those students. This figure includes all sources of funding, and analysis reveals significant inequities for both operational and capital funding (see Component #19 for information on capital issues).
18. Equitable Operational Funding and Equal Access to All State and Federal Categorical Funding | National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Charter Law Description