Topeka ? Kansas officials have raised their forecast of state revenue through the middle of next year by $252 million.

Economists and state officials had predicted last November that revenue would total $6.2 billion both in the current budget year, which ends June 30, and in the following fiscal year.

On Friday, they raised those projections to slightly less than $6.4 billion this year and more than $6.4 billion in the 2013 fiscal year, which starts July 1.

Steve Anderson, Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget director, said the new numbers reflect that the economy continues to grow.