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AR Code § 6-17-1305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 13 - The School Employees' Minimum Sick Leave Law|§ 6-17-1305. Record of used and accumulated leave

 (a) A record of sick leave used and accumulated shall be established and maintained by each school district for each of its employees.  (b) Sick leave that is unused by a school employee during any school year shall be accumulated in such school employee's sick leave account at a rate of one (1) day per month or major portion thereof employed until ninety (90) days have been accumulated.  (c) A school employee who qualifies for sick leave under § 6-17-1304 may use any amount up to his or her total number of accumulated days.  (d) Accumulated days of sick leave that are used may be restored up to ninety (90) days in the same manner that they were first accumulated.
AR Code § 6-17-1306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 13 - The School Employees' Minimum Sick Leave Law|§ 6-17-1306. Authority to liberalize policy

 The number of days of sick leave provided by this subchapter are minimums only, and nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit any school district from providing more days of sick leave or from having a more liberal policy for the administration of sick leave, including, but not limited to, the establishment of sick leave pools or banks and allowing school employees who are husband and wife to each utilize the other's accumulated sick leave.
AR Code § 6-17-1307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 13 - The School Employees' Minimum Sick Leave Law|§ 6-17-1307. Unused leave — Credit

 (a) Whenever a school employee employed by a school district in this state shall leave the school district and accept employment in another school district, the school employee shall be granted credit by the new school district for up to ninety (90) days of unused sick leave accumulated by the school employee in the former school district.  (b) The accumulated and unused sick leave shall be credited to the school employee by the school district upon receipt of written proof from the school district in which the school employee was formerly employed.
AR Code § 6-17-1308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 13 - The School Employees' Minimum Sick Leave Law|§ 6-17-1308. Absence due to injury from assault

 (a)  (1) Each school district shall grant a leave of absence with full pay for a maximum period of one (1) year to any school employee who is absent from duty in a public school as a result of personal injury from an assault or other violent criminal act committed against the school employee in the course of employment in the public school.  (2) Such leave of absence shall not be charged to the sick leave provided to the school employee under this subchapter.    (b) The board of directors of each school district shall adopt written policies for the implementation of this section and shall incorporate them as a part of the written personnel policies of the school district.
AR Code § 6-17-1401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 14 - Workers' Compensation|§ 6-17-1401. Coverage provided

 Workers' compensation coverage as provided in the Workers' Compensation Law, § 11-9-101 et seq., shall be provided for personal injuries and death of officers and employees of public schools in this state.
AR Code § 6-17-1402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 14 - Workers' Compensation|§ 6-17-1402. Workers' Compensation Commission — Authority and jurisdiction

 (a) The Workers' Compensation Commission is authorized to adopt rules and to prescribe forms it deems necessary or desirable to properly carry out the purpose and intent of this subchapter.  (b) The commission shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all claims filed by or in behalf of school district employees pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter for workers' compensation benefits.  (c) The method and procedure of filing claims and the determination of awards pursuant to such claims shall be the same as provided by law and rules of the commission with respect to claims filed by employees of private employers.  (d) However, the action taken by the commission with respect to the allowance or disallowance of any claim filed pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter shall be final and binding upon all parties and shall not be subject to judicial review.
AR Code § 6-17-1403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 14 - Workers' Compensation|§ 6-17-1403. Financing coverage

 (a) The General Assembly shall appropriate funds as necessary to cover an award made to a school district employee under this subchapter for claims that arose before July 1, 1994.  (b) All funds so appropriated by the General Assembly shall be deposited into the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund, and all awards made under this subchapter shall be paid from the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund by the Public Employee Claims Division of the State Insurance Department.  (c) Annually on July 1, the division shall certify to the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State the amounts of all awards made and paid during the preceding year to or on behalf of public school employees, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall cause to be transferred to the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund from the Public School Fund the amount as was certified to him or her as having been paid on behalf of public school employees.  (d) The Commissioner of Education shall also cause to be transferred to the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund from the Public School Fund such amounts as may be certified to the commissioner by the division as the cost of administering this subchapter for public school employees.
AR Code § 6-17-1404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 14 - Workers' Compensation|§ 6-17-1404. Filing reports of injury or death

 (a) The appropriate school district officials shall file with the Workers' Compensation Commission within ten (10) days after receiving notice of any personal injury or death of any employee of the school district, a report showing the date, time, and place of such injury or death and briefly stating the circumstances and extent thereof, the name of the injured or deceased person, and the names of all witnesses.  (b) The report shall be made on forms approved by the commission.
AR Code § 6-17-1405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 14 - Workers' Compensation|§ 6-17-1405. Notification of award — Transfer of available federal funds

 (a) Upon making any award to or in behalf of an employee of any school district, the Workers' Compensation Commission shall notify the appropriate officer of the school district and shall notify the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education.  (b) If the salary or compensation of the employee in whose behalf the award was made is paid wholly or partly from federal funds, the division is authorized to transfer funds from the federal funds available for the program under which such employee was paid to the Public School Fund to reimburse the Public School Fund for funds transferred to the Workers' Compensation Revolving Fund as provided for in this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-17-1411 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 14 - Workers' Compensation|§ 6-17-1411. School district employees

 (a) All school districts shall be required to provide workers' compensation coverage for their employees.  (b) Coverages shall be provided for losses incurred while performing work for the school district.
AR Code § 6-17-1412 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 14 - Workers' Compensation|§ 6-17-1412. Effective date

 (a) Claims incurred before July 1, 1994, shall continue to be the responsibility of the state.  (b) Claims incurred on and after July 1, 1994, shall be the responsibility of the school districts.
AR Code § 6-17-1413 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 14 - Workers' Compensation|§ 6-17-1413. Carriers

 (a) School districts may provide workers' compensation coverage either through private carriers, municipal self-funding groups, or one (1) or more self-funding groups.  (b) Self-funding groups established for this purpose shall meet the following requirements:  (1) Any such group established to provide such coverage only to school districts shall offer coverage to any school district in the state that applies for such coverage;  (2)  (A) Any group established to provide workers' compensation coverage to school districts shall offer such coverage at rates established by the NCCI Holdings, Inc. and approved by the State Insurance Department.  (B) Premiums for school districts participating in any such group shall be revised annually based on the loss experience of the particular school district or group of school districts; and    (3)  (A)  (i)  (a) Any self-funding group of participating school districts shall be subject to the rules of the Workers' Compensation Commission applicable to self-insured groups or providers.  (b) However, school districts shall not be required to enter into an indemnity agreement binding them jointly and severally.    (ii) Each board governing a self-funded group shall be permitted to declare dividends or give credits against renewal premiums based on annual loss experience.  (iii) All self-funded groups shall obtain excess reinsurance from an admitted or approved insurance company doing business in Arkansas.    (B) However, in lieu of the reinsurance requirements in subdivision (b)(3)(A)(iii) of this section, any self-funded group under this section with one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) or more in annually collected premiums may provide excess reserves of twenty percent (20%) of annual premiums by any one (1) of the following ways:  (i) Cash or certificates of deposit in Arkansas banks; or  (ii) Letters of credit from an Arkansas bank.
AR Code § 6-17-1501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 15 - The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983|§ 6-17-1501. Title

 This subchapter shall be referred to and may be cited as “The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983”.
AR Code § 6-17-1502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 15 - The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983|§ 6-17-1502. Definitions

 (a) As used in this subchapter:  (1)  (A) “Probationary teacher” means a teacher who has not completed three (3) successive years of employment in the school district in which the teacher is currently employed.  (B)  (i) A teacher employed in a school district in this state for three (3) years shall be deemed to have completed the probationary period.  (ii) However, an employing school district may, by a majority vote of its directors, provide for one (1) additional year of probationary status; and      (2) “Teacher” means any person, exclusive of the superintendent or assistant superintendent, employed in an Arkansas public school district who is required to hold a teaching license from the State Board of Education as a condition of employment.    (b) A teacher who has completed three (3) successive years of employment in the school district in which the teacher is employed on July 4, 1983, or a teacher who has been given credit for a prior service in another school district as authorized by subdivision (a)(2) of this section, is deemed to have completed the required probationary period.
AR Code § 6-17-1503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 15 - The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983|§ 6-17-1503. Construction

 (a) The General Assembly finds:  (1) That the current standard, which requires cause that is not arbitrary, capricious, or discriminatory for the nonrenewal, termination, or suspension of a teacher, should be raised to a standard of just and reasonable cause; and  (2) That the current standard for compliance with this subchapter and a school district's personnel policies of strict compliance should be lowered to substantial compliance.    (b) This subchapter is not a teacher tenure law in that it does not confer lifetime appointment of teachers.  (c) A nonrenewal, termination, suspension, or other disciplinary action by a school district shall be void unless the school district substantially complies with all provisions of this subchapter and the school district's applicable personnel policies.
AR Code § 6-17-1504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 15 - The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983|§ 6-17-1504. Evaluation — Effect

 (a) Each teacher employed by the board of directors of a school district shall be evaluated in writing under the Teacher Excellence and Support System, § 6-17-2801 et seq.  (b) At a time other than an evaluation conducted under the Teacher Excellence and Support System, § 6-17-2801 et seq., if a superintendent or other school administrator charged with the supervision of a teacher believes or has reason to believe that the teacher is having difficulties or problems meeting the expectations of the school district or its administration and the administrator believes or has reason to believe that the problems could lead to termination or nonrenewal of contract, the superintendent or other school administrator shall:  (1) In writing, bring the problems and difficulties to the attention of the teacher involved; and  (2) Document the efforts that have been undertaken to assist the teacher to correct whatever appears to be the cause for potential termination or nonrenewal.
AR Code § 6-17-1505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 15 - The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983|§ 6-17-1505. Teacher personnel file

 (a) The school district shall maintain a personnel file for each teacher which shall be available to the teacher for inspection and copying at the teacher's expense during normal office hours.  (b) The teacher may submit for inclusion in the file written information in response to any of the material contained therein.
AR Code § 6-17-1506 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 15 - The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983|§ 6-17-1506. Contract renewal — Notice of nonrenewal — Rescission

 (a) Every contract of employment made between a teacher and the board of directors of a school district shall be renewed in writing on the same terms and for the same salary, unless increased or decreased by law, for the next school year succeeding the date of termination fixed therein, which renewal may be made by an endorsement on the existing contract instrument unless:  (1) By May 1 of the contract year, the teacher is notified by the school superintendent that the superintendent is recommending that the teacher's contract not be renewed;  (2) During the period of the contract or within ten (10) calendar days after the end of the school year, the teacher shall send by certified or registered mail to the president, vice president, or secretary of the board of directors of the school district, with a copy to the superintendent, or may deliver in person to the president, vice president, or secretary of the board of directors of the school district, with a copy to the superintendent, his or her resignation as a teacher; or  (3) The contract is superseded by another contract between the parties.    (b)  (1) Termination, nonrenewal, or suspension shall be only upon the recommendation of the superintendent.  (2)  (A) A notice of nonrenewal shall be delivered in person to the teacher or mailed by registered or certified mail to the teacher at the teacher's residence address as reflected in the teacher's personnel file.  (B) The notice of recommended nonrenewal of a teacher shall include a statement of the reasons for the recommendation, setting forth the reasons in separately numbered paragraphs so that a reasonable teacher can prepare a defense.      (c)  (1) No teacher shall be required to sign and return a contract for the next school year any sooner than thirty (30) days after the contract is issued to the teacher.  (2) The teacher shall have the right to unilaterally rescind any signed contract no later than ten (10) days after the end of the school year.
AR Code § 6-17-1507 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 15 - The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983|§ 6-17-1507. Notice of termination recommendation

 (a) A teacher may be terminated only during the term of any contract when there is a reduction in force created by districtwide reduction in licensed staff or for incompetent performance, conduct which materially interferes with the continued performance of the teacher's duties, repeated or material neglect of duty, or other just and reasonable cause.  (b) The superintendent shall notify the teacher of the termination recommendation.  (c)  (1) The notice shall include a statement of the grounds for the recommendation of termination, setting forth the grounds in separately numbered paragraphs so that a reasonable teacher can prepare a defense.  (2) The notice shall be delivered in person to the teacher or sent by registered or certified mail to the teacher at the teacher's residence address as reflected in the teacher's personnel file.
AR Code § 6-17-1508 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 15 - The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983|§ 6-17-1508. Suspension

 (a) Whenever a superintendent has reason to believe that cause exists for the termination of a teacher and that immediate suspension of the teacher is necessary, the superintendent may suspend the teacher without notice or a hearing.  (b) The superintendent shall notify the teacher in writing within two (2) school days of the suspension.  (c)  (1) The written notice shall include a statement of the grounds for suspension or recommended termination, setting forth the grounds in separately numbered paragraphs so that a reasonable teacher can prepare a defense.  (2) The written notice shall be delivered in person to the teacher or sent by registered or certified mail to the teacher at the teacher's residence address as reflected in the teacher's personnel file and shall state that a hearing before the board of directors is available to the teacher upon request provided that the request is made in writing within the time provided in § 6-17-1509.    (d) The hearing shall be scheduled by the president, vice president, or secretary of the board of directors of a school district and the teacher and shall be held within the time and manner provided in § 6-17-1509 after a request for the hearing is received by the board of directors.  (e) If sufficient grounds for termination or suspension are found, the board of directors may terminate the teacher or continue the suspension for a definite period of time.  (f) The salary of a suspended teacher shall cease as of the date the board of directors sustains the suspension.  (g) If sufficient grounds for termination or suspension are not found, the teacher shall be reinstated without loss of compensation.
AR Code § 6-17-1509 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 17 - Personnel|Subchapter 15 - The Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983|§ 6-17-1509. Hearing

 (a) A teacher who receives a notice of recommended termination or nonrenewal may file a written request with the board of directors of the school district for a hearing.  (b) Written request for a hearing shall be sent by certified or registered mail to the president, vice president, or secretary of the board of directors of the school district, with a copy to the superintendent, or may be delivered in person by the teacher to the president, vice president, or secretary of the board of directors of the school district, with a copy to the superintendent, within thirty (30) calendar days after the written notice of proposed termination or nonrenewal is received by the teacher.  (c) Upon receipt of a request for a hearing, the board of directors shall grant a hearing in accordance with the following provisions:  (1) The hearing shall take place at a time agreed upon in writing by the parties, but if no time can be agreed upon, then the hearing shall be held no fewer than five (5) calendar days nor more than twenty (20) calendar days after the written request has been received by the board of directors;  (2)  (A) The hearing shall be private unless the teacher or the board of directors shall request that the hearing be public.  (B) If the hearing is public, the parent or guardian of any student under eighteen (18) years of age who offers testimony may elect to have the student's testimony offered in private;    (3) The teacher and the board of directors may be represented by representatives of their choosing;  (4) It shall not be necessary that a full record of the proceedings at the hearing be made and preserved unless:  (A) The board of directors shall elect to make and preserve a record of the hearing at its own expense, in which event a copy shall be furnished the teacher, upon request, without cost to the teacher; or  (B) A written request is filed with the board of directors by the teacher at least twenty-four (24) hours before the time set for the hearing, in which event the board of directors shall make and preserve at its own expense a record of the hearing and shall furnish a transcript to the teacher without cost; and    (5) The board of directors shall not consider at the hearing any new reasons which were not specified in the notices provided pursuant to this subchapter.    (d) Nothing in this section shall preclude a school district which has chosen to officially recognize in its policies an organization representing the majority of the teachers of the school district for the purpose of negotiating personnel policies, salaries, and educational matters of mutual concern under a written policy agreement from conducting a single nonrenewal hearing when all the school district's teachers are recommended for nonrenewal provided that each teacher at such hearing shall be given an opportunity to make comments to be included in the hearing record.