Act 35

The Texarkana Gazette Editorial Board takes issue with the legislature's failure to allocate $100 per student in recognition of outstanding performance to districts that exceed standards. Act 35 of the 2nd extraordinary session of the 84th General Assembly created the Arkansas School Recognition Program, which was designed to send performance-based funding to those districts in categories four and five. Click here and read the language beginning on p. 22, line 8.