Katie Parrish
Katie has a son with autism. She uses Arkansas’ Education Freedom Account program to send her son to Arrows Academy, a microschool that provides specialized instruction and therapy for children with autism.
In June 2024, she teamed up with the Partnership for Educational Choice—a joint project of the Institute for Justice (IJ) and EdChoice—to defend the Education Freedom Account program against a lawsuit.
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In 2023, Arkansas’ education reform bill, known as the LEARNS Act, went into effect. The LEARNS Act created the state’s Education Freedom Accounts program, which provides eligible families with thousands of dollars to cover certain…