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AR Code § 6-13-1608 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 16 - Public Education Reorganization Act|§ 6-13-1608. Audit required

 (a) Arkansas Legislative Audit shall conduct a comprehensive financial review of all the school district's financial matters for any school that is involved in administrative consolidation or administrative annexation or is otherwise reorganized by the State Board of Education.  (b) The comprehensive financial review shall begin no less than ten (10) days after the earliest of:  (1) The publication of the district's name on the consolidation and annexation list under § 6-13-1602;  (2) The filing of a petition for voluntary administrative consolidation or administrative annexation; or  (3) The adoption of a motion by the state board to consolidate, annex, or otherwise reorganize a school district designated as being in academic or fiscal distress.    (c)  (1) Beginning on the date of publication of the consolidation list under § 6-13-1602 each year, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall have authority to oversee all fiscal and accounting-related matters of all school districts on the consolidation list and shall require those school districts to have accurate records necessary to close all books within sixty (60) days after the end of the fiscal year.  (2) No contract or other debt obligation incurred by a school district for which the division has oversight authority under this section shall be valid or enforceable against a resulting school district unless the contract or other debt obligation is preapproved in writing by the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education or his or her designee.    (d) Any school that is involved in an administrative consolidation or administrative annexation shall have an audit started within thirty (30) days of the completion of the closing of the books by the school district.  (e) The division and Arkansas Legislative Audit shall jointly develop the scope and details of the comprehensive fiscal review consistent with the requirements of this section.  (f) A school district may not incur debt without the prior written approval of the division if the school district is identified by the division under § 6-13-1602(1) as having fewer than three hundred fifty (350) students according to the school district average daily membership in the school year immediately preceding the current school year.
AR Code § 6-13-1609 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 16 - Public Education Reorganization Act|§ 6-13-1609. Preservation of historical school artifacts

 Following the administrative consolidations or administrative annexations under §§ 6-13-1601 — 6-13-1603, 6-13-1604 [repealed], and 6-13-1605 [repealed] effective before December 1, 2004, and before any consolidation, annexation, detachment, approval of a conversion charter, or any other type of reclassification or reorganization of a school district after December 31, 2004, a receiving district or resulting district shall obtain, retain, preserve, and, as appropriate, display historical artifacts of the affected district in the same manner as if the historical artifacts were those of the receiving district or resulting district.
AR Code § 6-13-1611 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 16 - Public Education Reorganization Act|§ 6-13-1611. Reports

 (a) By October 1 of each year, the resulting district or receiving district of any school district that was administratively consolidated or administratively annexed under §§ 6-13-1601 — 6-13-1603 shall file a written report with the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education indicating:  (1) What efforts were made and the results of those efforts for inclusion of parents from the affected district in the receiving district's or the resulting district's activities, including without limitation:  (A) Parent-teacher associations;  (B) Booster clubs; and  (C) Parent involvement committees;    (2) The number and percentage of students from the affected districts participating in an extracurricular activity, itemized by each extracurricular activity offered by the school district and, for each activity, which school district the student attended before reorganization; and  (3) The employment status of each administrator by name, gender, and race before the administrative annexation or administrative consolidation, which school employed the administrator before administrative consolidation, and his or her employment status in the receiving district or the resulting district.    (b) The division shall develop or approve a survey to be used by the resulting districts or receiving districts to capture perceptual data from parents and students regarding their opinions on:  (1) Opportunities for inclusion or participation in the resulting district or receiving district; and  (2) The efforts, if any, that were made to include parents from the affected district in the receiving district's or resulting district's activities, including, but not limited to, parent-teacher associations, booster clubs, and parent involvement committees.
AR Code § 6-13-1612 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 16 - Public Education Reorganization Act|§ 6-13-1612. Academic support centers

 (a) The purpose of this section is to:  (1) Prevent students who attend administratively consolidated or administratively annexed schools from returning home to communities with little or no opportunities for supplemental academic support;  (2) Increase opportunities for access to library materials, academic resource materials, and educational technology for these students within their local communities; and  (3) Help advance academic performance for these students by providing opportunities for homework and tutorial assistance based on the Arkansas curriculum frameworks.    (b) An academic support center may be established in communities whose schools have been closed by administrative consolidation or administrative annexation under this subchapter to fulfill the objectives identified in subsection (a) of this section.  (c) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall:  (1) Establish rules to implement this section; and  (2) Report annually to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education regarding the establishment of academic support centers and their effectiveness.
AR Code § 6-13-1613 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 16 - Public Education Reorganization Act|§ 6-13-1613. Minimum school district size waiver

 (a)  (1) A school district that is placed on the consolidation list published by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education under § 6-13-1602(2) may annually request a waiver from the average daily membership requirement of three hundred fifty (350) students from the State Board of Education.  (2) A school district shall submit a petition for a waiver to the state board no later than thirty (30) days after the consolidation list is published.  (3) The petition for a waiver shall include:  (A) The average daily membership of the school district in the current school year;  (B) A statement that the school district is not in probationary status for any violation of the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts;  (C) A copy of the school district's current year budget and any fiscal audit conducted within the previous two (2) years; and  (D) A statement of assurance that the school district is not currently classified in Level 5 — Intensive support, fiscal distress, or facilities distress.      (b)  (1) The state board shall render a decision to either grant or reject a petition for waiver that is received by a school district within forty-five (45) days of receipt.  (2) The state board shall grant a petition for a waiver if it is demonstrated by the school district that:  (A) The school district is not currently classified in Level 5 — Intensive support, fiscal distress, or facilities distress;  (B) The school district is not in probationary status for a violation of the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts;  (C) The academic facilities owned and operated by the school district are adequate as evidenced by the school district's facilities master plan; and  (D) It is in the best interest of the students in the school district to keep the school district open due to the length of potential time spent on the bus by a student traveling to and from school should the school district be administratively reorganized, as assured by the school board of directors of the school district requesting the waiver.    (3) The state board may revoke a waiver that has been granted to a school district at any time if it is found that the conditions under subdivision (b)(2)(A) of this section change.    (c) A school district that is granted a waiver shall remain listed on the consolidation list that is published annually by the division.
AR Code § 6-13-1701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 17 - Institutional Law Enforcement Officers|§ 6-13-1701. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Executive head” means a superintendent of a public school district or the head of an open-enrollment public charter school;  (2) “Institution” means property that is owned and operated by a public school district or an open-enrollment public charter school;  (3) “Institutional law enforcement officer” means an individual who is appointed under this subchapter by an executive head to exercise law enforcement authority on the property of an institution;  (4) “Primary jurisdiction” means the property over which an institutional law enforcement officer may exercise authority; and  (5) “Property” means both real and personal property that is owned by or under the control of an institution, and includes without limitation all highways, streets, alleys, and rights-of-way that are contiguous or adjacent to real and personal property that is owned or controlled by an institution.
AR Code § 6-13-1702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 17 - Institutional Law Enforcement Officers|§ 6-13-1702. Applicability

 (a)  (1) This subchapter applies to all property that is owned or under the control of an institution.  (2) However, this subchapter shall not interfere with the ownership or control that is vested in the board of directors of each institution regarding its property.    (b) This subchapter shall be in addition to any rights that an institution has with respect to enforcing its rules, including without limitation an institution's right to:  (1) Impose sanctions through fees and charges;  (2) Discipline an individual;  (3) Deny service to an individual; and  (4) Expel an individual.
AR Code § 6-13-1703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 17 - Institutional Law Enforcement Officers|§ 6-13-1703. Appointment and removal of institutional law enforcement officers

 (a)  (1) An executive head of an institution may designate and appoint at least one (1) of the employees of the institution as an institutional law enforcement officer.  (2) An employee appointed as an institutional law enforcement officer under subdivision (a)(1) of this section shall exercise the authority of a law enforcement officer under the laws of this state.    (b) Before an executive head appoints an institutional law enforcement officer under subdivision (a)(1) of this section, the institution shall appear before the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training to request the creation of a new law enforcement agency as required under § 12-9-118.  (c) An institutional law enforcement officer under this section shall:  (1) Have all powers provided by law to law enforcement officers, which shall be exercised as required for the protection of the institution that appointed the institutional law enforcement officer; and  (2) Meet the standards and qualifications for certification required by the commission.    (d) The appointment of an institutional law enforcement officer under this section shall not supersede the authority of the:  (1) City police and county sheriffs with jurisdiction over the property or individuals of an institution; and  (2) Division of Arkansas State Police.    (e) An institutional law enforcement officer appointed under this section shall:  (1) Be identified by a shield or a badge bearing the name of the institution for which the institutional law enforcement officer is employed; and  (2)  (A) Have an identification card bearing his or her photograph.  (B) An identification card under subdivision (e)(2)(A) of this section shall be carried on the institutional law enforcement officer's person at all times while he or she is on duty and shall be displayed upon request.      (f)  (1) An institutional law enforcement officer's authorization to exercise powers provided by law for law enforcement officers shall be evidenced by a letter of appointment issued under the seal of an institution.  (2) An executive head or his or her designee shall maintain a file that contains:  (A) Each institutional law enforcement officer's authorization certificate as required under subdivision (f)(1) of this section; and  (B) Certificates and information as required by the commission.      (g)  (1) An executive head may revoke, in writing, an institutional law enforcement officer's authority granted under this subchapter.  (2) A copy of a revocation issued under subdivision (g)(1) of this section shall be included in the file required under subdivision (f)(2) of this section.  (3) The commission shall be notified by the institution of any change in the status of an institutional law enforcement officer.
AR Code § 6-13-1705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 17 - Institutional Law Enforcement Officers|§ 6-13-1705. Institutional law enforcement officers — Personal liability

 An institutional law enforcement officer appointed under this subchapter is not personally liable for injuries to individuals or damages to property while the institutional law enforcement officer is acting within the scope of his or her authority as authorized by this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-13-1706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 17 - Institutional Law Enforcement Officers|§ 6-13-1706. Prosecution and fines

 (a) A prosecuting attorney or city attorney with jurisdiction shall appear and prosecute all actions that arise in a court under this subchapter.  (b) All fines collected by a court under this subchapter shall be paid into the same fund as are fines levied for the same or similar violations by the court hearing the matter.
AR Code § 6-13-1707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 13 - School Districts|Subchapter 17 - Institutional Law Enforcement Officers|§ 6-13-1707. Motor vehicles on institutional property — Rules

 (a) An institution may promulgate rules for the operation and parking of motor vehicles on the property of the institution, including without limitation rules regarding the:  (1)  (A) Rate of speed.  (B) Speed limits shall be posted at reasonable intervals;    (2)  (A) Assignment and designation of parking spaces and the collection of charges or fees as rent for those parking spaces.  (B) Charges or fees collected under subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section, other than charges and fees collected for parking or parking passes for athletic events or other special events at the institution, are not considered payment for the providing of any service of any nature to the individual required to pay the charges or fees as rent and shall be exempt from the tax levied by § 26-52-301(3);    (3)  (A) Prohibition of parking.  (B) For purposes of appearance, a notice left on a motor vehicle is sufficient to constitute a summons;    (4) Removal of vehicles, at the expense of the violator, that are parked in violation of institutional rules or city ordinances;  (5) Establishment of a system of motor vehicle registration for the identification and regulation of motor vehicles that regularly use property of the institution, including without limitation a reasonable charge to defray costs associated with the identification and regulation of the motor vehicles; and  (6)  (A) Collection, under an established system, of administrative charges for violations of institutional rules under this section that govern motor vehicles, the operation of motor vehicles, and the parking of motor vehicles.  (B) An administrative finding of a violation under subdivision (a)(6)(A) of this section may be appealed to the district court with jurisdiction, where the matter shall be heard de novo.      (b) Rules promulgated under this section shall be:  (1) Recorded in the official minutes of the board of directors that has supervision of the institution;  (2) Filed as required under state law; and  (3) Printed, with copies available at convenient locations throughout the institution.    (c) Traffic and parking directions and prohibitions under this section shall be indicated by signs at regular intervals throughout the institution.  (d)  (1) An individual who violates institutional rules promulgated under this subchapter shall be subjected to reasonable administrative charges under this section.  (2) An administrative determination under this section may be appealed to the district court with jurisdiction, where the matter shall be heard de novo.
AR Code § 6-15-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-15-101. Academic standards and expected outcomes

 By September 1, 2003, and as updates are necessary each year thereafter, the State Board of Education shall:   (1) Define and publish academic standards and expected outcomes for students in prekindergarten through grade twelve (preK-12);  (2) Require that the academic standards and expected outcomes be adopted by local school district boards of directors; and  (3) Require that the academic standards and expected outcomes be implemented by local school districts.
AR Code § 6-15-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-15-103. School district waivers

 (a) A public school district may petition the State Board of Education for all or some of the waivers granted to an open-enrollment public charter school.  (b) The petition for all or some of the waivers granted to an open-enrollment public charter school that is submitted by a public school district shall include without limitation:  (1) The name of the open-enrollment public charter school that has the requested waiver;  (2) A copy of the waivers granted to the open-enrollment public charter school; and  (3) A list of the waivers that the public school district seeks to have granted.    (c)  (1) The state board shall grant, in whole or in part, or deny, in whole or in part, a petition for a waiver submitted by a public school district within ninety (90) days of receiving the petition.  (2) The state board shall notify the superintendent of the public school district in writing of the decision of the state board.  (3) A waiver that is granted to a public school district, in whole or in part, shall be valid for the duration approved by the state board not to exceed the duration that the waiver is valid for the open-enrollment charter school.  (4) A waiver under this section shall not be granted for a period of time exceeding five (5) years.    (d) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education may promulgate rules to implement this section.
AR Code § 6-15-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 2 - The Quality Education Act of 2003|§ 6-15-201. Title

 This subchapter shall be known as and may be cited as “The Quality Education Act of 2003”.
AR Code § 6-15-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 2 - The Quality Education Act of 2003|§ 6-15-203. Notification of failure to meet standards for accreditation — Appeal

 (a)  (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education annually shall notify all schools or school districts failing to meet standards for accreditation for elementary and secondary schools not later than May 1 of each year of this determination.  (2)  (A) However, at any time the division may immediately notify a public school or school district failing to meet standards for accreditation for elementary and secondary schools when the failure is discovered by the division under § 6-15-202(i).  (B) A public school or school district notified by the division of the public school's or school district's failure to meet the standards for accreditation due to actions taken under § 6-15-202(i) shall have the same period of time to appeal to the State Board of Education as provided under subdivision (b)(3) of this section.      (b)  (1) In the event that a school district affected by this subchapter believes the division has improperly determined that a school or school district fails to meet the standards for accreditation, the school district shall have a right of appeal thereafter to the state board.  (2) Any appeal shall be held in an open hearing, and the decision of the state board shall be in open session.  (3) Appeals must be filed not later than May 15 following the May 1 determination of accreditation status, and the state board hearing must be held before June 30 of the same calendar year.  (4) The state board may confirm the classification of a local school or school district as determined by the division, or it may sustain the appeal of the school district.  (5) An aggrieved school district may appeal the ruling of the state board to Pulaski County Circuit Court pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.