Last year the Little Rock city board approved a plan that gave money to groups fighting violence, and now the board approved an extension to those plans.
$11 3 million going to 84 Arkansas programs to boost children s learning arktimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arktimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Forty-four of Arkansas' after-school, summer and extended-year learning programs are newly named recipients of grants totaling $5.2 million to help students catch up on academic learning missed because of the covid-19 pandemic.