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AR Code § 6-1-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter 4 - School Leadership Coordinating Council|§ 6-1-405. Report

 (a) The Chair of the School Leadership Coordinating Council shall provide a report to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education no later than September 1, 2010, and each year thereafter.  (b) The report shall identify:  (1) Deficient areas of school leadership;  (2) Innovative programs to address deficient areas of school leadership;  (3) Progress made to improve school leadership;  (4) Plans to improve the quality of school leadership throughout the state;  (5) Development and activities of school leadership cohorts; and  (6) Efforts made to address school leadership recommendations expressed in the 2008 Educational Adequacy report or subsequent reports submitted by the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education.
AR Code § 6-1-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter 6 - College and Career Coaches Program|§ 6-1-601. Findings

 The General Assembly finds that:   (1) Highly skilled and educated people who can handle demanding jobs and generate new ideas are necessary for Arkansas to prosper in a global economy; and  (2) With only eighteen percent (18%) of Arkansans twenty-five (25) years of age and older holding a baccalaureate degree, Arkansas is ranked forty-ninth in the nation for adults who hold a baccalaureate degree, creating an impediment to the success of the state.
AR Code § 6-1-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter 6 - College and Career Coaches Program|§ 6-1-602. Creation — Program participation

 (a)  (1) The College and Career Coaches Program is established to assist students in preparing for postsecondary education or careers.  (2) Coaches shall be accessible to students who attend middle schools and high schools.    (b) A school district participating in the College and Career Coaches Program is eligible for administrative support and supplemental grants if funding is available.  (c) A school district may use national school lunch state categorical funds to support the school district's participation in the College and Career Coaches Program.  (d) Participation in the College and Career Coaches Program is contingent on the availability of funding.
AR Code § 6-1-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter 6 - College and Career Coaches Program|§ 6-1-603. Program administration

 (a) The Division of Career and Technical Education, in partnership with the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Division of Higher Education, shall develop and administer the College and Career Coaches Program.  (b) The Division of Career and Technical Education shall manage the College and Career Coaches Program and:  (1) Provide guidelines and procedures for implementing the College and Career Coaches Program;  (2) Develop, coordinate, and offer training opportunities for college and career coaches;  (3) Monitor implementation of the College and Career Coaches Program by on-site technical assistance visits at least one (1) time every five (5) years;  (4) Develop guidelines and procedures for the application process;  (5) Accept or reject the annual application of a College and Career Coaches Program after:  (A) Reviewing and evaluating evidence of the performance and success of a College and Career Coaches Program; and  (B) Prioritizing approval and supplemental grant funding to College and Career Coaches Programs in Tier 3 and Tier 4 counties that are operated in partnership between a school district, an institution of higher education, an education service cooperative, or a nonprofit organization; and    (6) Prepare annual reports that may be shared with members of the:  (A) Governor's Workforce Cabinet;  (B) General Assembly; and  (C) Office of the Governor.
AR Code § 6-1-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Subchapter 6 - College and Career Coaches Program|§ 6-1-605. Program effectiveness and measurement

 (a)  (1) The effectiveness of the College and Career Coaches Program shall be evaluated based on measurable benefits to students, including increases in:  (A) High school graduation rates;  (B) Completion of the Smart Core curriculum;  (C) College attendance rates;  (D) Remediation rates; and  (E) Applications for financial aid.    (2)  (A) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Division of Higher Education shall collect and prepare performance data reports to determine the effectiveness of the program.  (B) The data shall be collected for each county and school district served by the program and shall be shared with the Division of Career and Technical Education on January 1 and August 1 each year.      (b) Annually, each college and career coach shall submit a report to the Division of Career and Technical Education describing his or her student contacts and the programs and services provided.
AR Code § 6-4-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 1 - Southern Regional Education Compact|§ 6-4-102. Legislative approval

 (a) The Southern Regional Education Compact is approved, and the State of Arkansas is declared to be a party to the compact.  (b) Agreements, covenants, and obligations in the compact are binding upon the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 6-4-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 1 - Southern Regional Education Compact|§ 6-4-103. Copy furnished states upon approval

 Upon the approval of this compact by the requisite number of states, the Governor shall sign an engrossed copy of the compact, and sufficient copies shall be provided so that every state approving the compact shall have an engrossed copy.
AR Code § 6-4-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 1 - Southern Regional Education Compact|§ 6-4-104. Agent for out-of-state education

 (a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board is designated the agent for the State of Arkansas for the purpose of entering into a program of out-of-state training and education for residents of Arkansas through the cooperation of the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education, which was created by interstate compact with Arkansas, a signatory pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 13, approved March 2, 1949.  (b) The Division of Higher Education is hereby authorized to administer the program.
AR Code § 6-4-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 1 - Southern Regional Education Compact|§ 6-4-105. Contracts for out-of-state education

 (a) As agent for the state, the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall contract with the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education in order that the latter may act to secure admission of Arkansas residents as students in institutions of higher education operated by other states who are signatories of the compact.  (b) Contract authority shall include the placing of students for study in the fields for which the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education may maintain programs, including, but not limited to, veterinary medicine and dentistry.  (c)  (1) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall contract to pay the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education for Arkansas students accepted under this program.  (2) Provided, in no case will the contract price exceed the amount approved by the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education.
AR Code § 6-4-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 1 - Southern Regional Education Compact|§ 6-4-106. Application by students

 (a) Students seeking the subsidy to be paid for their benefit shall apply to the Division of Higher Education, giving necessary information.  (b) If the applicant is found to be a bona fide resident of Arkansas and if funds for this purpose are available, the division shall, without more, certify the applicant as qualified to participate under this program.
AR Code § 6-4-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 1 - Southern Regional Education Compact|§ 6-4-107. Disbursing agent

 (a) The Department of Higher Education shall be the disbursing agency for the State of Arkansas for the purpose of authorizing payment to the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education under this program.  (b) As the disbursing agent, the department may expend such sums as are specially appropriated for the operation and administration of this program without obligation to maintain the program should the special appropriation be unavailable.
AR Code § 6-4-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 3 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children|§ 6-4-301. Title

 This subchapter is known and may be cited as the “Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children”.
AR Code § 6-4-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 3 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children|§ 6-4-303. Compact Commissioner for Arkansas

 (a) Under the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children established under this subchapter, the Compact Commissioner for Arkansas shall be the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education or his or her designee.  (b) The Compact Commissioner for Arkansas is responsible for the administration and management of the state's participation in the compact adopted under this subchapter.  (c) The Compact Commissioner for Arkansas shall cooperate with all departments, agencies, and officers of and in government of this state as well as all school districts and political subdivisions of this state for the administration of this compact, supplementary agreements entered into by the state, or as further directed by law or by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education or the State Board of Education.
AR Code § 6-4-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 3 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children|§ 6-4-305. Duties of the State Council

 (a) Within thirty (30) days from the date the appointments are initially made, the members of the State Council for the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children shall appoint a military family education liaison to assist military families and the state in facilitating the implementation of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children adopted under this subchapter.  (b) The council may promulgate rules for the administration of this subchapter and provide recommendations to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education regarding the promulgation of rules applicable to the division and public school districts.  (c) Children of military families under this subchapter shall have equitable access to academic courses and programs and to extracurricular academic, athletic, and social programs.  (d)  (1) The State Council shall meet at least annually to hold a public forum in a military community to hear direct feedback from military families regarding the effectiveness of the compact in this state.  (2) Under this subchapter, parents and legal guardians of military families may request the opportunity to:  (A) Speak at the public forum under subdivision (d)(1) of this section; or  (B) Make an online presentation to the State Council during the public forum under subdivision (d)(1) of this section.      (e) The State Council may seek input from the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education regarding the outcome of a case that is brought to the State Council for resolution.  (f) The State Council shall provide annually a report to the Governor, the Senate Committee on Education, and the House Committee on Education that includes without limitation the following:  (1) Information regarding the achievements of the State Council and public school districts regarding the support provided to military families under this subchapter;  (2) Details of the reports regarding the compact in this state that are provided to the Military Interstate Children's Compact Council and actions taken by the Military Interstate Children's Compact Council that impact the state;  (3) Details of cases and the outcomes of the cases brought to the State Council for resolution, in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, as it existed on January 1, 2019, and state student privacy laws;  (4) Information regarding training that is provided to and completed by public school district personnel with respect to this subchapter;  (5) Details regarding plans for future engagement efforts with military families under this subchapter; and  (6) Any other information requested by parents and legal guardians of military families.
AR Code § 6-4-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 3 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children|§ 6-4-306. Military family education liaison

 (a) The military family education liaison shall be an ex officio member of the State Council for the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.  (b) The military family education liaison shall have specialized knowledge related to the educational needs of military children and the obstacles that military children face in obtaining an education.  (c) The military family education liaison shall serve a term of four (4) years.
AR Code § 6-4-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 3 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children|§ 6-4-307. Fees

 Under the compact established under this subchapter and using the definitions in the compact:   (1) The minimum fee for a member state is two thousand dollars ($2,000);  (2) The maximum fee for each member state is two dollars ($2.00) per student who is a child of an active duty military family; and  (3) The fees paid or owed shall not exceed the amount appropriated for the payment of fees under this compact for each fiscal year by the General Assembly.
AR Code § 6-4-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 3 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children|§ 6-4-308. Immunity not affected

 (a) This subchapter shall not affect the immunity from suit granted to state officials and employees under § 19-10-305 or to the state and its official agencies under Arkansas Constitution, Article 5, § 20.  (b) The exercise of the powers and performance of duties provided for in this subchapter by the Compact Commissioner for Arkansas, the State Council for the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, and the military family education liaison for Arkansas and its officers, agents, and employees are declared to be public and governmental functions, exercised for a public purpose and matters of public necessity, conferring upon each authority governmental immunity from suit in tort.
AR Code § 6-4-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Interstate Compacts|Subchapter 3 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children|§ 6-4-309. Children of military families — Student enrollment procedures — Military education coordinators

 (a) A public school with twenty (20) or more children of military families enrolled as students or a public school with a total of three thousand (3,000) or more students enrolled shall:  (1) Incorporate into the policies of the public school specific procedures that outline actions to take in support of students who are the children of military families who transition to and from the public school; and  (2)  (A) Designate each public school district a military education coordinator to serve as the primary point of contact for each child of a military family and his or her parent or legal guardian.  (B) The public school military education coordinator shall have specialized knowledge regarding the educational needs of children of military families and the obstacles that children of military families face in obtaining an education.      (b) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall supply relevant resources for the orientation and training of public school military education coordinators under this section.
AR Code § 6-5-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 2 - Hazing|§ 6-5-201. Definition

 (a) As used in this subchapter, “hazing” means:  (1) A willful act on or off the property of any school, college, university, or other educational institution in Arkansas by one (1) student, alumnus, or volunteer or employee of a fraternal organization if the volunteer or employee is acting on behalf of, or in the name of, the fraternal organization, acting alone, or acting with others when the conduct is directed against any other student and done for the purpose of intimidating the student attacked by threatening him or her with social or other ostracism or of submitting such student to ignominy, shame, or disgrace among his or her fellow students, and acts calculated to produce such results;  (2) The playing of abusive or truculent tricks on or off the property of any school, college, university, or other educational institution in Arkansas by one (1) student, alumnus, or volunteer or employee of a fraternal organization if the volunteer or employee is acting on behalf of, or in the name of, the fraternal organization, acting alone, or acting with others, upon another student to frighten or scare him or her;  (3) A willful act on or off the property of any school, college, university, or other educational institution in Arkansas by one (1) student, alumnus, or volunteer or employee of a fraternal organization if the volunteer or employee is acting on behalf of, or in the name of, the fraternal organization, acting alone, or acting with others which is directed against any other student done for the purpose of humbling the pride, stifling the ambition, or impairing the courage of the student attacked or to discourage him or her from remaining in that school, college, university, or other educational institution, or reasonably to cause him or her to leave the institution rather than submit to such acts; or  (4) A willful act on or off the property of any school, college, university, or other educational institution in Arkansas by one (1) student, alumnus, or volunteer or employee of a fraternal organization if the volunteer or employee is acting on behalf of, or in the name of, the fraternal organization, acting alone, or acting with others in striking, beating, bruising, or maiming; or seriously offering, threatening, or attempting to strike, beat, bruise, or maim; or to do or seriously offer, threaten, or attempt to do physical violence to any student of any such educational institution; or any assault upon any such student made for the purpose of committing any of the acts, or producing any of the results, to such student as defined in this section.    (b) The term “hazing” as defined in this section:  (1) Does not include customary athletic events or similar contests or competitions; and  (2) Is limited to those actions taken and situations created in connection with initiation into or affiliation with an organization, extracurricular activity, or sports program.
AR Code § 6-5-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 2 - Hazing|§ 6-5-202. Prohibitions

 (a) A student, alumnus, or volunteer or employee of a fraternal organization of a school, college, university, or other educational institution in Arkansas shall not knowingly engage in hazing or encourage, aid, or assist any other student, alumnus, or volunteer or employee of a fraternal organization in hazing.  (b)  (1) A person shall not knowingly permit, encourage, aid, or assist another person in committing the offense of hazing, or knowingly acquiesce in the commission of the offense of hazing, or fail to report promptly his or her knowledge or any reasonable information within his or her knowledge of the presence and practice of hazing in this state to an appropriate administrative official of the school, college, university, or other educational institution in Arkansas.  (2) An act of omission or commission is hazing under this subsection.    (c) A violation of this section is a Class B misdemeanor.  (d) In addition to any penalty provided by this section, a student convicted of hazing shall be expelled from the school, college, university, or other educational institution that he or she is attending.
AR Code § 6-5-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education|Subchapter 2 - Hazing|§ 6-5-204. Construction

 Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as in any manner affecting or repealing any law of this state respecting any other criminal offense.
AR Code § 6-5-301 (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|§ 6-5-301. Creation — Funding

 (a)  (1) There is hereby established on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a fund to be known as the “Educational Excellence Trust Fund”.  (2) For each of the state's fiscal years, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall determine as an annual allocation for this fund an amount based on the total net general revenues as enumerated in § 19-6-201(1) and (2), which were collected in the immediate past year, times a factor of 0.1414.    (b)  (1) On the last day of each month of the respective fiscal year, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall certify to the Treasurer of State an amount based on one-twelfth (1/12) of the annual allocation determined in subsection (a) of this section for transfer to the fund.  (2) The Treasurer of State shall make such transfer after making the deductions required from the net general revenues as set out in § 19-5-202(b)(2)(B)(i).