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Committee hears how Arkansas targets Enhanced Student Achievement funds and options for alternative poverty measures
Summary
Bureau staff reviewed ESA (formerly National School Lunch funding): how free/reduced‑price lunch and direct certification (SNAP) identify poverty, 2021 ESA distributions ($236.5M) and matching grants ($5.3M), and APA findings that alternative poverty measures would reorder winners and losers among districts.
Bureau analysts told the Senate Education Committee how Arkansas identifies students for Enhanced Student Achievement (ESA) funding and how districts spend the categorical dollars.
Julie Holt explained that ESA funding historically relied on National School Lunch Program participation and direct certification via SNAP to identify students in poverty;…
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