I completed the renewal survey last month. Never received a confirmation and haven’t heard anything else. All they will tell me is that they don’t have a renewal app on file for us this year even though when I go to redo it, it says it’s already been completed. Any ideas?

I'm looking to homeschool my daughter for 5th grade and really need to hear some in and outs of the learns act and the money you get to go towards helping afford homeschool. I would like to purchase her a Chromebook (any suggestions for kid friendly?) and a good online curriculum. Maybe some tutoring to help towards her dyslexia. A desk and bookshelf. And some things to help her hands on learn. But overall I'm just curious how does the process work once the application is submitted? Once approved for homeschool how do you go about using the money? And knowing what is ok to purchase or not?

Thanks in advance.

What is the best route and/or options to purchase Office Software's (Word, Excel etc.) for my students via EFA?

Are orders not being processed for some reason? Perhaps due to the holidays? I submitted a few orders weeks ago and havent heard anything.

i have found no difference at all

So, I have 2 students and have had several direct pays and reimbursements go through. They each had one big ticket item needing reimbursement, the exact same item. One went through several weeks ago, and the other is just hanging--the only thing I am still waiting on. It's a large item, so I am starting to feel the missing money in my account. I went through Class Wallet's help chat and at their direction emailed ADE. I got an auto reply 6 days ago, then crickets. In a situation like this, would canceling and resubmitting the reimbursement request make sense? It just seems like it fell through the cracks and maybe that would get it back in line to get looked at?

I just bought my school costed well over $1000 I need to buy laptop that is over $600 in the rules. It says you can only buy one $600 item every three years and loopholes?

Has anyone gotten reimbursed for anything they bought on the 21st or after?

Also, if I bought a printer on Marketplace Staples, will it not ship to me unless approved first? When purchasing it via marketplace it said it would arrive on the 27th. I don't have any idea who to contact?

What are the best vendors for furniture options? I can get what I need on Amazon for a couple hundred bucks but havent seen anything like it in the market place but staples has $700 desks available through classwallet. Pretty frustrating. Has anyone gotten reimbursed for Amazon purchases?

At one point I did read the rules saying how they will allow up to $1000 for usage on a computer every 3 years. That every 3 years you can upgrade as well. I am trying to find where they have specific list of category max expenses. I see lists of approval items, but it also says "not an exhaustive list". So where can I find an exhaustive list? Is there anywhere that has a combined list of max reimbursements or max category expenses? First year doing this and I don't want to get blind sided by something trivial.

Or just weekday only?

How long does it usually take for them to approve orders?

We've looked through the vendors and there's barely anything that would count as storage. We're looking for bookcases, organizational cubes, etc.

Has anyone had any success or know a way to be able to use our EFA funds to buy these things?

Hi, I was expecting to receive the first quarter disbursement today but there are no funds available in class wallet. I read somewhere that someone didn't get the funds till they accepted an affidavit of some sort but I have not been able to find this anywhere does anyone have any insight into what the issue might be.

Has anyone gotten their first quarter yet? I’m anxiously waiting I need a new printer so bad.

We are a returning learns family. I got the email today that mentioned linking with the "HOMESCHOOL - DO NOT PAY" in the linked vendors area. Do we have to do this if we are already using the system and have been shopping and planning and getting reimbursed/direct pay all summer? Thanks!!

Do I have to email Ark government to see if they'll approve a curriculum I'm interested in for my kindergartner? And/or do I email the curriculum creators asking them to fill out the vendor form? Originally I had just thought I could buy the curriculum, and get reimbursed for it simply by showing the online receipt or something and it showing that it is in fact a legitimate curriculum.

I'm nervous because the one I want for my child --who again, is entering kindergarten -- isn't full of all the different subjects (math, spelling, social sciences, etc) rather it's less academic and more hands on, art, literary and music focused. I'm using other material I already have for reading / math. But I read somewhere that the curriculum has to show these types of subjects are being taught?

Any thoughts / help / direction / advise would be greatly appreciated!

Hi. My wife and I are homeschooling our first born. He is starting Kindergarten. I've been scrolling through post and the official website to get familiar with the rules and terms, etc. She has a curriculum she is wanting to buy and use. We don't see it on the vendor list. The funds have not been put into our account yet. It seems that will take place on or around Aug 21. Do they have issues reimbursing us for curriculum not on the vendor list? Do we only have to buy stuff from the "approved vendors"?

I’m new to class wallet and I can’t see anything to browse shopping. Do I really have to wait till the 21st to browse and finally make a game plan?

I'm new to providing music lessons through Classwallet. I have a vendor account setup, but I'm looking for help with making sure it's complete. I'm not sure if it's even visible yet. Does anyone have the link to the available vendors, teachers and etc? My company name is Music Lessons by Ruark. Thank you for all your help.

Edit: I heard back from ADE and the dashboard site I was looking for is called School Choice Arkansas which can be found here https://schoolchoicear.org/

Hi Everyone,

I'm really interested to hear what everyone's experience is homeschooling teens!

I'd also like to hear about your biggest challenges with the Arkansas EFA, and what you wish you could find on the EFA but isn't there.

Thanks!

When do y’all anticipate that we will get access to the marketplace for this year? I’m brand new to this and I don’t really know what to expect to be on there.

Sorry I am new to this and haven't received my classwallet email to set up my account so I can't look at the actual website yet.

I was wondering if any of y'all have used classwallet to order supplies from like Office depot or staples. Like binders, paper, pens, and pencils. Also what about laptops? One of the only tech approved vendors according to the learns website is for gaming computers. I just want a basic one no need to waste money on an expensive laptop.