A legislative panel on Tuesday signed off on granting $123.5 million in spending authority for the state Department of Education to disburse federal American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief Fund money to 35 school districts.
The community spread of COVID expands as measured by school district populations
The community spread of COVID expands as measured by school district populations
More grim news from the
Arkansas Center for Health Improvement on the extent to which COVID-19 is rampaging in the population of the majority of the state’s school districts.
There are now 182 Arkansas school districts that have had 50 or more new known COVID-19 infections per 10,000 district residents over a 14-day period up from 150 a week ago which is a new record high for the second week in a row, the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement said Wednesday. Forty-one school districts were added to the list this week, and 132 remained on the list.