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(The Center Square) - Arkansas lawmakers approved $188.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds for the Department of Education on Thursday after previously voting to rescind hundreds of millions in COVID-19 relief funds from the department.
A panel of Arkansas lawmakers signed off on another round of $188 million in federal pandemic funds Thursday for public schools.
A legislative panel on Tuesday endorsed Gov. Asa Hutchinson's administration's requests to transfer $750,000 in state rainy-day funds to the World Services for the Blind and grant spending authority to allow the attorney general to donate $250,000 in lawsuit settlement proceeds to the Sultana Historical Preservation Society.
State Sen. Trent Garner, R-El Dorado, has offered to repay the salary that he was paid as a part-time public defender to the Arkansas Public Defender Commission and that's about $6,000, Commission Executive Director Gregg Parrish told state lawmakers Tuesday.
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.