Monday, the House and Senate education committees adopted the adequacy report on efforts to adequately fund Arkansas' 450,000-student school system which calls for increasing per-student funding by .5 % in fiscal year 2008 and by 1.2 % the following year. The increase is significantly lower than an outside consultant's recommendation. Governor Beebe has said he wants to add another $19 million to public schools. Sen. Jim Argue (D-Little Rock), AR Senate Education Comm. Chair, says the next big question is not how much to fund the schools, but how current dollars are being spent.Tags: Arkansas, education
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