Another topic for the governor to blow off at his weekly coronavirus briefing today: An effort by the New York Times to calculate COVID-19 in schools.

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Problem: Data is hard to come by. In Arkansas, it’s hard to find comprehensive and reliable statistics for positive cases and students and staff in quarantine at the district or state level. But there are some figures available here.

And, guess what:

For the states that ARE reporting positive cases, Arkansas is No. 2!

Behind only Texas.

So if you figured it per capita, we’d be No. 1!

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