| Updated: 8/30/2010 3:46 pm |
Published: 8/30/2010 3:43 pm |
The Arkansas House and Senate Education Committee has approved an increase in per student funding. This year the state is spending $6,023 per K-12 student.
That total is going up to $6,174 next year, an increase of two and a half percent. Two years from now the total goes up to $6,353.
That last increase is subject to a review in the 2012 fiscal session.