Guides
Arkansas Education Freedom Account guides
These pages cover the Arkansas EFA itself, how tutoring fits, how ClassWallet payments and renewal deadlines work, and the special education decisions — IEPs, homeschooling, dyslexia — that many EFA families are navigating at the same time.
If you are deciding what to read first, start with the complete parent guide. If you already know tutoring is your use case, the tutoring guide and the ClassWallet payments guide are the two pages that matter most.
Arkansas EFA: The Complete Parent Guide
The program in plain English: eligibility, award amounts by school year, covered expenses, applying, deposits, and rollover.
Use Your EFA for Tutoring
The five-step path from award to sessions: approved providers, the tutor credential rules, invoices, and Direct Pay.
How EFA Payments Work in ClassWallet
Direct Pay, Marketplace, reimbursement, and tuition payments — when each applies, and how families avoid fronting money.
EFA Renewal & Application Deadlines
The 2026-27 cycle recap, priority categories, the ClassWallet Renewal Survey, and what to prepare for the next window.
IEPs, Private School, and the EFA
What happens to IEP and IDEA rights when an EFA student moves to private school — the tradeoffs, stated honestly.
Homeschooling Special Needs on the EFA
How homeschooling a child with special needs works on the EFA: services, providers, testing, and the Notice of Intent.
EFA Summer Tutoring
The new summer-use rule and how families can put EFA funds toward tutoring in the summer months.
Dyslexia and the EFA
Funding dyslexia therapy and specialized reading intervention with EFA funds, from evaluation to instruction.
Literacy Tutoring Grant vs. the EFA
Two LEARNS programs that pay for reading tutors — who qualifies for each, the dollar amounts, and why they don’t stack.
Find (and Verify) EFA-Approved Tutors
The three places to look — ClassWallet, ADE’s lists, the SchoolChoiceAR finder — plus credential rules and red flags.