Students go through the lunch line at Westwood Elementary School in Springdale in this Dec. 20, 2019, file photo. The Springdale School District is eligible for $8.6 million for a new Westwood Elementary after action from the three-member Commission for Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation in May 2024. (NWA Democrat-Gazette file photo)
More than two dozen Arkansas school districts are a step closer to fulfilling 43 construction project plans -- some as routine as a roof replacement and others as large as a new high school -- as a result of action last week by a state commission that oversees state aid...
