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AR Code § 6-15-206 (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|§ 6-15-206. Subsequent failure to meet standards for accreditation

 (a) Any school or school district which fails to meet current standards for accreditation as determined by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall be classified as probationary.  (b)  (1) Notice thereof shall be filed with the school district in which the school is located that the school or school district must meet all standards for accreditation within no more than two (2) consecutive school years, including the year the probationary status is declared, or be subject to the mandates of this subchapter, including, but not limited to, possible consolidation, annexation, or reconstitution of a school district as provided under § 6-13-1401 et seq. and this subchapter.  (2) The division shall prepare and promulgate rules and guidelines for the maximum times allowable for correction of any violations of standards, provided no probationary status violation may exist for more than two (2) consecutive school years.    (c)  (1) School districts shall submit annually evidence of compliance with standards for accreditation for the school district and each school in the school district.  (2) The division shall review annually the educational standards of school districts for the purpose of determining whether standards for accreditation of the schools therein are in compliance with current state standards for accreditation.    (d)  (1) The division shall conduct a review of each school's compliance if the division has reason to believe that the school district or any school within the public school district has fallen below standards for accreditation.  (2) The review under subdivision (d)(1) of this section may be conducted on-site at the public school or public school district.    (e) The division shall cooperate with local schools and school authorities in order to assist affected school districts and schools therein to achieve compliance with the standards for accreditation as provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-15-207 (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|§ 6-15-207. Enforcement of standards

 (a) The State Board of Education may take any number of the actions listed in subsection (c) of this section to address a school or school district failure to meet standards for accreditation any time after a school or school district has received notice of being placed on probationary status pursuant to §§ 6-15-202 and 6-15-203.  (b) The state board shall take at least one (1) of the actions listed in subsection (c) of this section to address any school or school district which has failed to meet all standards for accreditation for two (2) consecutive school years, including the year the probationary status is declared pursuant to §§ 6-15-202 and 6-15-203, unless the state board, at its discretion, issues written findings supported by a majority of the state board that the school district could not meet current standards for the relevant time period due to impossibility caused by external forces beyond the school district's control.  (c) The state board shall be allowed to take the following actions to address any school or school district on probationary status for failing to meet the standards for accreditation:  (1) Require a school district to reorganize or reassign the administrative, instructional, or support staff of a public school;  (2) Require a school or school district to institute and fully implement a curriculum that is based on state academic content and achievement standards, including providing appropriate professional development at the cost of the school district;  (3) Remove a particular school from the jurisdiction of a school district and establish alternative public governance and supervision of the school;  (4) Require a school district to close down or dissolve a particular school or schools within a school district;  (5) Annex a school district or districts or parts thereof with another receiving school district or districts pursuant to the authority of § 6-13-1401 et seq. and this subchapter;  (6) Consolidate a school district or districts or parts thereof with another school district or districts or parts thereof to form a resulting district pursuant to the authority of § 6-13-1401 et seq. and this subchapter;  (7) Reconstitute the leadership of a school district by removing permanently or suspending on a temporary basis the superintendent of the school district or any particular board members of a school district. The state board shall have the authority to appoint an administrator or to call for the election of new school district board members to administer the affairs and provide governance of the school district, or both; and  (8) Take any other appropriate action allowed by law which is determined by the state board to assist and address a school or school district failure to meet the standards for accreditation.
AR Code § 6-15-208 (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|§ 6-15-208. Publication and dissemination

 When any school of a school district or the school district is determined by the State Board of Education to be on probationary status for failure to meet the standards for accreditation, that school district after exhausting its rights to appeal shall:   (1) Publish the probationary status determination and findings of the state board to the public and the parents or caregiver of each student enrolled in the school or school district determined to have failed to meet the standards for accreditation;  (2) The public notice shall be in an understandable and uniform format; and  (3) The public notice shall be published or disseminated, immediately after the state board's determination on the website of the school district and published at least one (1) time a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a local newspaper of general circulation in the affected school district.
AR Code § 6-15-209 (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|§ 6-15-209. Rules

 The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules as necessary to set forth the:   (1) Process for identifying and addressing a school or school district that is failing to meet the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts;  (2) Process and measures to be applied to require a school or school district to comply with the standards, including, but not limited to, possible annexation, consolidation or reconstitution of a school district under § 6-13-1401 et seq. and this subchapter;  (3) Appeals process and procedures available to a school district pursuant to this subchapter and current law; and  (4) Definitions and meaning of relevant terms governing the establishment and governance of the standards.
AR Code § 6-15-213 (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|§ 6-15-213. Course considered as taught under certain circumstances

 A course shall be considered as taught by a school district in compliance with the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts if:   (1) A course required to be taught by a school district under the State Board of Education's Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts:  (A) Has an enrollment of one (1) or more students and all students enrolled in the course leave the school district or drop the course after the course has commenced but before the completion of the course in each given school year or school semester the course is to be taught; or  (B) The school district made the course available to students as required but no students signed up to take the course;    (2) The school district superintendent certifies in writing that no student eligible to take the required course enrolled to attend the school district campus where the course was required to be taught after the initial student or students left the school district or that no eligible student enrolled in the course offered by the school district;  (3) The school district provides written proof, as required by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, that the school district had the course scheduled to be taught on the school district's master course schedule during the entire time the course was required to be taught;  (4) The school district provides written proof, as required by the division, that the school district had a properly licensed teacher employed and able to teach the required course during the entire time the course was required to be taught on site at the school district, by independent study, or has access to the course via distance education approved by the division, and the course was listed on the school district's master course schedule; and  (5) The division, upon review of proper records of the school district and information certified by the school district superintendent, confirms that the school district satisfied the requirements of subdivisions (2)-(4) of this section and verifies that the information submitted pursuant to subdivisions (2)-(4) of this section is correct.
AR Code § 6-15-214 (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|§ 6-15-214. Advanced placement course counted as core curriculum course taught

 (a) The purpose of this section is to assist small, rural public schools in providing students access to the most rigorous courses available if it is the desire of students to take advanced placement courses in the place of regular courses and, in doing so, to meet the requirements of the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts.  (b)  (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education acknowledges that the rigor and level of difficulty of advanced placement courses exceed the requirements of regular courses.  (2) Such rigor and level of difficulty are validated through the required advanced placement audit and advanced placement examinations.    (c) The State Board of Education shall consider an advanced placement course as being taught for one (1) of the required courses under the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts if:  (1) The public school district has a qualified teacher for the required course;  (2) No students enrolled in the required course;  (3) An advanced placement course in the same subject area as the required course has students enrolled in the advanced placement course;  (4) The public school district teaches all other courses required by the standards for accreditation; and  (5)  (A) The public school district teaches the required course to any student who enrolls in the public school district after the school year begins.  (B) The public school district may teach the required course to a new student:  (i) In a traditional classroom setting;  (ii) Through distance learning with a qualified teacher; or  (iii) By modifying the advanced placement course on an individual level to accommodate the new student.        (d)  (1) The public school district shall notify the division after registration in the spring before the beginning of the new school year and immediately after the school year begins if no students enrolled in the required course and the public school district will seek to meet the standards for accreditation using the advanced placement course.  (2) Upon receiving the public school district notification and after spring registration, the division shall permit the public school district to meet the standards for accreditation by teaching the advanced placement course in place of the required course.    (e) If a new student enrolls in the required course, the public school district shall immediately notify the division.  (f) The division shall establish procedures to ensure that no student is coerced into taking an advanced placement course for the purpose of meeting the standards for accreditation.
AR Code § 6-15-216 (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|§ 6-15-216. Flexibility in awarding course credit

 (a)  (1) Beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, a public school district may submit a plan for approval to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to award units of high school course credit based on a demonstration of subject matter competency instead of, or in combination with, completing hours of classroom instruction.  (2) The plan shall include a method for recording demonstrated subject matter competency on high school transcripts.    (b) Upon approval, a public school district shall not be in violation of any requirement in the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts that units of credit be awarded for a minimum number of clock hours if the public school district awards units of credit based on a demonstration of subject matter competency instead of, or in combination with, completing hours of classroom instruction if the awarding of credit is in compliance with the public school district's approved plan.  (c) The division may promulgate rules to implement this section, including without limitation guidelines to assist public school districts in transitioning to awarding credits as provided under this section.
AR Code § 6-15-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 5 - Home Schools|§ 6-15-501. Definition

 As used in this subchapter, “home school” means a school provided by a parent or legal guardian for his or her own child.
AR Code § 6-15-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 5 - Home Schools|§ 6-15-502. Rules and procedures for monitoring and enforcing provisions

 (a) The provisions of § 6-18-201(a) shall be self-executing, and the State Board of Education shall have no authority to promulgate rules or guidelines for the enforcement or administration thereof.  (b) The state board is empowered to make such reasonable rules required for the proper administration of this subchapter which are not inconsistent with the intent of this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-15-507 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 5 - Home Schools|§ 6-15-507. Ineligibility of home schools for local, state, or federal funds

 (a)  (1) Home schools authorized by this subchapter are not entitled to local, state, or federal funds allocated to a public school district.  (2) For purposes of this section, eligible children with disabilities identified under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq., in home school settings shall be given the same consideration afforded to students in private school settings for special education services as provided for in that act.    (b) School districts providing services to home school students shall be eligible for local, state, or federal funds allocated or approved for such services.
AR Code § 6-15-508 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 5 - Home Schools|§ 6-15-508. Home schooling prohibited if a sex offender resides in the home

 (a) No child may be home schooled if any person residing in the home with the child is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq.  (b) Upon petition to the sentencing court from the child's parent or guardian, the sentencing court may enter a written order specifically waiving the restriction in subsection (a) of this section.  (c) This section shall not apply if the child to be home schooled is the person registered under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq.
AR Code § 6-15-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 9 - Uniform Grading Scale for Public Schools|§ 6-15-901. Definition

 For the purposes of this subchapter, “advanced placement course” means a course of instruction that qualifies for college credit and that is approved for credit as a high school course by the State Board of Education.
AR Code § 6-15-903 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 9 - Uniform Grading Scale for Public Schools|§ 6-15-903. Report cards

 (a)  (1) Every public school district shall provide a report card for each student reflecting the student's grade in each class in which the student is enrolled.  (2) The report card shall be:  (A) Mailed to the last known address of the student;  (B) Given to a parent at a parent-teacher conference; or  (C) Sent home with the student.      (b) The report card shall be provided at the end of each grading period but no fewer than four (4) times each school year.  (c) Parents shall not be required to provide postage or self-addressed envelopes to receive a report card.
AR Code § 6-15-1001 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 10 - Arkansas Public Education Act of 1997|§ 6-15-1001. Title

 This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Public Education Act of 1997”.
AR Code § 6-15-1002 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 10 - Arkansas Public Education Act of 1997|§ 6-15-1002. Legislative findings

 (a) The General Assembly recognizes that students in Arkansas deserve the best education that the citizens can provide and establishes a goal to provide a quality educational opportunity to every public school student in every community and in every school district in the state.  (b) The General Assembly acknowledges that the State of Arkansas must:  (1) Raise student academic achievement in the basic curriculum;  (2) Increase the number of students who complete the courses required for graduation; and  (3) Ensure that students graduate with the knowledge and preparation to be contributing members of society.    (c) The General Assembly further acknowledges that every school district in Arkansas must graduate academically competent students, must have qualified teachers and administrators, must provide a safe, efficient, and accountable program, and must be supported by and assisted by the state.  (d) The General Assembly finds that in order for all involved in the education of our young people to work to meet this challenge, a revision of existing statutes is necessary.
AR Code § 6-15-1003 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 10 - Arkansas Public Education Act of 1997|§ 6-15-1003. Academically competent students

 (a)  (1) Arkansas public school students will achieve competency in the basic core of knowledge and skills.  (2) Students will meet required standards in academic areas of the curriculum that will serve as a basis for students to pursue immediate and lifelong educational and employment opportunities.  (3) Students will achieve competency in:  (A) Language arts, writing, spelling, speaking, listening, and reading;  (B) Math, computation, measurement, probability and statistics;  (C) Problem solving, basic algebra, data analysis, and geometry concepts;  (D) Science, physical and life science knowledge and scientific problem solving; and  (E) Social studies, history, geography, economics, and civic education.      (b)  (1) Arkansas public school students will apply practical knowledge and skills.  (2) Students will meet required academic standards in those areas that will better prepare them for lifelong career opportunities.  (3) Students will achieve competency at the local level in computer science and other technologies and in practical economic and consumer skills and will be offered courses in vocational preparation skills.    (c)  (1) Arkansas public school students will demonstrate achievement.  (2) School districts, schools, and students shall participate in the state assessments in the basic core of knowledge and skills as defined by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education in the Arkansas Educational Support and Accountability Act, § 6-15-2901 et seq.
AR Code § 6-15-1006 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 10 - Arkansas Public Education Act of 1997|§ 6-15-1006. Assistance and support

 (a)  (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education will be structured to provide leadership, service, and support to public schools.  (2) Division professional staff will demonstrate mastery of knowledge in learning theory, best educational practices, resource utilization, research and data analysis, school law, instructional leadership, and school administration.    (b)  (1) Division staff will conduct, sponsor, participate in, and support continuing education and professional development.  (2) The continuing education and professional development will be based on overall organizational improvement, performance evaluation results, statewide student achievement results, and current educational research and practice.    (c)  (1) The division will provide leadership in marshalling support for a quality and equitable educational system in the state.  (2) Division resources will be committed to supporting policy development and procedures that enable the Governor, the General Assembly, the State Board of Education, and business and professional organizations to work together in a positive and consistent manner to improve education in Arkansas.
AR Code § 6-15-1007 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally|Subchapter 10 - Arkansas Public Education Act of 1997|§ 6-15-1007. Arkansas Leadership Academy

 (a) There is established the Arkansas Leadership Academy.  (b)  (1) The academy shall provide a variety of training programs and opportunities to develop the knowledge base and leadership skills of school principals, teachers, superintendents, other administrators, and school district board members.  (2) The academy may enter into a private-public partnership or a public-public partnership if the partnership will enhance the leadership skills of school principals, teachers, superintendents, other school administrators, school district board members, students, or other stakeholders.    (c) The State Board of Education shall have the authority to issue requests for proposals if the state board should determine to change the operator or the location of the academy.