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AR Code § 6-5-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 3 - Educational Excellence Trust Fund|§ 6-5-302. Allocation and transfer of funds

 From the moneys accruing to the Educational Excellence Trust Fund, the Treasurer of State on the last day of the month shall transfer to the various funds and fund accounts listed below, the amounts determined by applying each fund or fund account's proportionate part of the total of all such allocations set forth in this section to the amount available for distribution as determined in § 6-5-301:   FISCAL YEAR ENDING Fund or Fund Accounts June 30, 2002 June 30, 2003 & Thereafter Department of Education Public School Fund Account $161,935,727 $164,138,382 Department of Career Education Public School Fund Account 9,518,065 10,032,555 Department of Education Fund Account 762,901 804,138 Department of Career Education Fund Account 2,856,557 3,010,965 Higher Education Grants Fund Account 10,499,767 11,067,322 School for Math, Sciences, and Arts Fund 0 5,988,465 Institutions of Higher Education: Arkansas State University Fund 4,797,713 5,057,049 Arkansas Tech University Fund 1,608,226 1,695,157 Henderson State University Fund 1,663,634 1,753,560 Southern Arkansas University Fund 983,576 1,036,743 University of Arkansas Fund 11,905,301 12,548,830 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Fund 4,224,809 4,453,177 University of Arkansas Medical Center Fund 7,274,293 7,667,498 University of Arkansas Medical Center Fund - Indigent Care 181,013 190,797 University of Arkansas at Monticello Fund 848,858 894,742 University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Fund 1,473,599 1,553,253 University of Central Arkansas Fund 3,661,359 3,859,270 Arkansas State University-Beebe Fund 1,144,646 1,206,518 East Arkansas Community College Fund 599,022 631,401 National Park College Fund 895,921 944,349 Arkansas Northeastern College Fund 573,810 604,827 North Arkansas College Fund 353,775 372,898 Northwest Arkansas Community College Fund 791,763 834,561 Phillips Community College of University of Arkansas Fund 583,366 614,899 University of Arkansas Community College at Rich Mountain Fund 158,120 166,667 SAU-Tech Fund 256,801 270,683 South Arkansas Community College Fund 409,688 431,833 University of Arkansas at Fort Smith Fund 2,437,691 2,569,458 TOTAL INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION $46,826,984 $49,358,170   Click to view table.
AR Code § 6-5-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 3 - Educational Excellence Trust Fund|§ 6-5-307. Classroom teacher salary requirement

 (a) Any increase in Educational Excellence Trust Fund funds allocated for teacher salaries shall be used by school districts to provide salary increases for current licensed personnel positions and for no other purpose, except that required Social Security and teacher retirement matching required to be paid by the school districts for licensed personnel positions may be paid from the funds.  (b) Educational Excellence Trust Fund funds allocated for teacher salaries shall be disbursed by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to a school district in accordance with the foundation funding amount under § 6-20-2305.  (c) In determining whether a school district has had an increase in Educational Excellence Trust Fund funds allocated for teacher salaries, any annual increase in the Educational Excellence Trust Fund funds must exceed the level of the prior fiscal year to be classified as an increase.  (d) “Salary increase”, as used in this section, includes increments for experience or advanced hours or degrees.  (e) The division may promulgate rules to administer this section.
AR Code § 6-5-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 3 - Educational Excellence Trust Fund|§ 6-5-308. Legislative intent — Supplemental funding for public education

 It is the intent of this subchapter to supplement, not to supplant, funding for public education in this state. Nothing herein shall be construed to reduce that portion of general revenue or growth revenues which would otherwise accrue to the Public School Fund. The moneys provided by this subchapter are intended to be in addition to those anticipated to be provided to fund public education for the children of this state at the same historical proportionate levels.
AR Code § 6-5-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 4 - Higher Education Awareness Act of 1993|§ 6-5-401. Title

 This subchapter shall be known as and may be cited as the “Higher Education Awareness Act of 1993”.
AR Code § 6-5-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 4 - Higher Education Awareness Act of 1993|§ 6-5-402. Legislative findings

 The General Assembly hereby finds and determines the following:   (1) That the skills required for jobs and careers in the future demand increasing knowledge and training, and the continued development of the Arkansas economy depends on more of our citizens obtaining postsecondary education;  (2) That the course choices made as early as the ninth grade can affect the education options available to a student after high school;  (3) That many eighth graders and their parents or guardians are unfamiliar with the courses required to enter our state's colleges and universities or the options offered by our state's technical colleges and are unaware of the financial requirements or financial assistance available for postsecondary opportunities; and  (4) That one (1) of the education goals of Arkansas and the nation is to increase the number of young people entering postsecondary education.
AR Code § 6-5-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 4 - Higher Education Awareness Act of 1993|§ 6-5-403. Scope of program

 (a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board is hereby directed to work with Arkansas public institutions of higher education, and those private institutions of higher education that wish to participate, to annually provide updated or additional information for the information packages provided to seventh-grade students and their parents or guardians on the options of postsecondary education available in Arkansas, the courses required to attend colleges and universities, and the financial requirements and assistance available for students pursuing additional education after high school.  (b)  (1) Sessions to discuss postsecondary options shall be held during the spring semester at a reasonable time at each of the state's public schools housing a seventh-grade class.  (2) The sessions should be scheduled at a time convenient to the school and the cooperating institutions of higher education.  (3) The students in the seventh grade, the school counselors, and the students' parents, guardians, or persons in loco parentis shall meet together in conference for the purpose of defining the students' educational objectives for the future and developing a course of study for grades eight through twelve (8-12).    (c) At the request of the parents, guardians, or persons in loco parentis, the school will schedule an individual conference to evaluate the student's past academic performance, to define the student's educational objectives for the future, and to develop a course of study for the student in grades eight through twelve (8-12).  (d)  (1) The board, working in conjunction with state-supported institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education that wish to participate, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the Division of Career and Technical Education annually shall compile information for Arkansas high school students on:  (A) Academic scholarships for freshmen entering institutions of higher education in the state; and  (B) State-funded programs that provide opportunities for developing technical job skills and apprenticeships.    (2)  (A) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall provide the information annually to all public high school counselors in the state.  (B) Each public high school counselor annually shall provide the information received from the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to students in the public high school where he or she is employed.
AR Code § 6-5-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 4 - Higher Education Awareness Act of 1993|§ 6-5-404. Cooperation with program

 (a) The State Board of Education, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the public schools of Arkansas shall:  (1) Cooperate with the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the Division of Higher Education, and the institutions of higher education in providing the information; and  (2) Assist as requested by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.    (b) Individual schools shall make special efforts to ensure that as many students and parents or guardians as possible are made aware of the opportunity to receive information, are urged to attend the counseling sessions, and are in receipt of the information packages.  (c) Businesses and industries in Arkansas are hereby requested to provide the opportunity to their employees with children in the eighth grade in public schools in Arkansas to attend the counseling sessions and to cooperate with institutions of higher education in presenting at the work site small group and one-on-one counseling on courses that are required for postsecondary education and postsecondary options and financial requirements and assistance available for postsecondary education.
AR Code § 6-5-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 5 - Civil War Reenactments|§ 6-5-501. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Civil War” means the 1861-1865 American Civil War;  (2) “Civil War-era weapon” means an instrument used in offensive or defensive combat during the Civil War or a modern reproduction;  (3) “Civil War reenactor” means a member of an organized group acting out historical events from the Civil War and carrying an actual weapon from that era or a reproduction;  (4) “School official” means a public school district superintendent or principal, a private school superintendent or principal, a president, chancellor, or dean of a publicly supported institution of higher education, or a president or dean of a private institution of higher education; and  (5) “School property” means any building, bus, campus, ground, recreational area, athletic field, or other area or structure owned or in the charge of a public school district, a private school, a publicly supported institution of higher education, or a private institution of higher education.
AR Code § 6-5-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 5 - Civil War Reenactments|§ 6-5-502. Weapons

 A person in this state who is a Civil War reenactor may carry a Civil War-era weapon on school property for educational purposes so long as a school official grants approval in advance and, if the weapon is a firearm, the firearm is unloaded.
AR Code § 6-5-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Evaluation Center|§ 6-5-701. Legislative findings

 The General Assembly finds:   (1) Effective evaluation serves to enhance quality in existing services and programs by:  (A) Ensuring accountability for funds and services used;  (B) Raising the bar for standards and expectations; and  (C) Increasing the use of data to inform program operation and decision making;    (2) The general focus of effective evaluation is on programs and services, but effective evaluation can be applied also to individuals, organizations, communities, and societies or cultures;  (3) In a state where resources are often scarce, effective and credible evaluation is the heart of a healthy system and is critical to ensure that necessary programs and services are delivered and ineffective programs and practices eliminated; and  (4) To help groups accomplish their objectives, empowerment evaluation and other collaborative forms of evaluation are particularly useful in collaborative endeavors that require complex systems and diverse groups.
AR Code § 6-5-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Evaluation Center|§ 6-5-702. The Arkansas Evaluation Center

 (a) There is established at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff the Arkansas Evaluation Center to build evaluation capacity in the State of Arkansas by:  (1) Assisting nonprofit corporations in their reporting processes to their boards, funding agencies, the government, and the public;  (2) Expanding the service of evaluation research to nonprofit corporations in the Arkansas Delta through the provision of data that helps to account for resources and through a service delivery designed to advance the quality of life in the Arkansas Delta;  (3) Assisting the General Assembly by evaluating the impact of potential and existing legislation; and  (4) Fulfilling a commitment to fiscal and philosophical accountability with the people of Arkansas by empowering the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff to provide nationally recognized evaluation training.    (b) The center shall be housed at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
AR Code § 6-5-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Evaluation Center|§ 6-5-703. Duties of the Arkansas Evaluation Center

 (a) The Arkansas Evaluation Center shall:  (1) Contribute to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff by:  (A) Attracting students to existing courses;  (B) Providing new online and distance learning courses; and  (C) Serving as a catalyst to stimulate university faculty to conduct evaluation and research;    (2) Provide academic training that consists of a variety of modalities, including courses, virtual classrooms, practicums, workshops, and invited speakers;  (3) Assist the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in offering a series of evaluation-related courses, including qualitative or ethnographic approaches, statistics, research design, evaluation approaches and methods, and politics of evaluation, that will be provided primarily through the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff's School of Education; and  (4) Assist the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in developing and implementing the Certificate Program in Effective Evaluation and the Masters Degree Program in Effective Evaluation.    (b) The center shall provide training on evaluation to a cadre of professionals interested in pursuing study in evaluation through course work, evaluation conference workshops, and invited lectures delivered by recognized experts.
AR Code § 6-5-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 8 - Health Care Student Summer Enrichment Program For Underrepresented Student Populations Act|§ 6-5-801. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Health Care Student Summer Enrichment Program for Underrepresented Student Populations Act”.
AR Code § 6-5-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 8 - Health Care Student Summer Enrichment Program For Underrepresented Student Populations Act|§ 6-5-802. Intent — Findings

 (a) This subchapter is intended to ensure academic success and completion of medical, pharmacy, and nursing school by an increasing number of minority students.  (b) The General Assembly finds that:  (1) The healthcare workforce and its ability to deliver quality care for all, including racial and ethnic minorities, can be improved substantially by increasing the proportion of underrepresented United States racial and ethnic minorities among health professionals;  (2)  (A) Nationally, African-Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and mainland Puerto Ricans make up twenty-five percent (25%) of the United States population.  (B) However, racial and ethnic minority students make up less than eight percent (8%) of practicing physicians and less than five percent (5%) of medical, pharmacy, and nursing school faculties;    (3) Summer enrichment programs have proven to aid in the recruitment and retention of students and faculty in all colleges on the campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences;  (4) Statistics concerning practicing physicians are as follows:  (A) Practicing physicians in Arkansas, seven thousand eight hundred eighty-nine (7,889);  (B) Practicing African-American physicians in Arkansas, one hundred fifty (150) or one and nine-tenths percent (1.9%) of Arkansas practicing physicians;  (C) An Arkansas majority physician-to-patient ratio of one (1) majority physician to five hundred seventy (570) persons;  (D) An Arkansas minority physician-to-patient ratio of one (1) physician to three thousand one hundred twenty-five (3,125) persons;  (E) A national physician-to-patient ratio of one (1) physician to five hundred twenty (520) persons; and  (F) Most minority physicians practice in underserved areas; and    (5) It is necessary for the public health and welfare of Arkansas to create the Health Care Student Summer Enrichment Program for Underrepresented Student Populations Act.
AR Code § 6-5-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 8 - Health Care Student Summer Enrichment Program For Underrepresented Student Populations Act|§ 6-5-803. Arkansas Academic Physician Program

 (a) There is created within the Division of Higher Education the Arkansas Academic Physician Program.  (b) To ensure academic success and completion of medical, pharmacy, or nursing school, the program shall provide academic support for students preparing to matriculate at a medical school in this state accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or approved by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to seek accreditation by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education.  (c) The program shall offer tutoring, group study, test-taking strategies, and supplemental instruction to promote collegiality and enhance the student's ability to master the basic sciences and increase the applicant pool.  (d) The program aims to offer premedical, prepharmacy, and prenursing students in Arkansas from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to engage in a variety of clinical hands-on experiences.
AR Code § 6-5-804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 8 - Health Care Student Summer Enrichment Program For Underrepresented Student Populations Act|§ 6-5-804. Health Care Student Summer Enrichment Program for Underrepresented Student Populations

 (a) There is created within the Division of Higher Education the Health Care Student Summer Enrichment Program for Underrepresented Student Populations.  (b) The program is an intensive six-week program targeting undergraduate students designed to:  (1) Increase awareness among racial and ethnic minority undergraduate students of:  (A) Common medical problems in underserved communities; and  (B) Career opportunities in fields of medicine;    (2) Provide participants with a meaningful experience in health-related fields; and  (3) Stimulate the interest of racial and ethnic minority undergraduate students in careers in science, medicine, and biomedical research.    (c) The program shall be designed to encourage participation by students of diverse backgrounds.
AR Code § 6-5-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 9 - The Positive Youth Development Grant Program|§ 6-5-901. Legislative intent — Findings

 (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly to expand the availability of positive youth development programs that incorporate the standards and recommendations of the Governor's Task Force on Best Practices for After-School and Summer Programs, including without limitation:  (1) School-based and school-linked afterschool and summer programs;  (2) 21st Century Community Learning Centers;  (3) Boys and Girls Clubs of America;  (4) Young Men's Christian Associations;  (5) 4-H clubs; and  (6) School-age care programs.    (b) The General Assembly finds that:  (1) Positive youth development programs:  (A) Support working families by ensuring their children and youth are safe and productive during out-of-school time;  (B) Build strong communities by involving students, parents, business leaders, and adult volunteers in the lives of young people in positive and productive activities, including tutoring, games, and activities designed to improve math and literacy skills;  (C) May include community-based service and other experiences that offer rich and varied academic support and build workforce skills critical to employment and future economic success; and  (D) Provide safe, challenging, engaging, and supervised learning experiences that help children and youth develop their educational, social, emotional, and physical skills where the assets and strengths of youth are emphasized rather than problems or deficits; and    (2) Students participating in positive youth development programs:  (A) Have higher daily school attendance;  (B) Report higher aspirations toward finishing school and going to college;  (C) Have fewer discipline problems;  (D) Show significant gains in standardized test scores;  (E) Are more likely to have a positive view of themselves and their hope for the future;  (F) Cultivate positive bonds with people and institutions that are reflected in their exchange with peers, family, school, and community; and  (G) Are far less likely to use drugs and alcohol, have contact with police and the juvenile court system, or engage in sexual activity and other harmful or risky behaviors.