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AR Code § 6-20-415 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 4 - District Finances|§ 6-20-415. Consultants

 (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education in consultation with the Attorney General shall hire consultants on the following basis:  (1) The consultants shall be qualified as experts in public school district desegregation;  (2) The purposes for employing the consultants are to determine whether and in what respects any of the three (3) Pulaski County school districts:  (A)  (i) Are unitary.  (ii) If a school district has been declared unitary or has been declared unitary in some respects, the consultants shall not examine the school district on those issues; and    (B) Have complied with their respective consent decrees; and    (3) The consultants shall understand and acknowledge in their work and research that their testimony in court may be required.    (b) The division shall not pay the consultant fees or expenses from moneys appropriated and available for the reimbursement of attorney's fees to the three (3) Pulaski County school districts under § 6-20-416.  (c)  (1) The division and the Attorney General also may hire consultants with expertise in the fields of auditing and forensic accounting to provide oversight and management of the three (3) Pulaski County school districts' finances with an emphasis on desegregation funding.  (2) The consultants hired by the division and the Attorney General shall have full authority to examine any documents and software and shall be allowed full access to any persons necessary to discharge the consultants' duties as directed by the division and the Attorney General.  (3) In addition to the authority otherwise granted to the State Board of Education and the division by law, the division may require a school district to modify, update, or change the school district's financial oversight or management policies, procedures, or practices in response to the recommendations of the consultants.  (4) A school district that fails to comply with the requirements of the division under this subsection shall be identified by the division as being in fiscal distress and subject to the applicable enforcement provisions as provided by law.
AR Code § 6-20-417 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 4 - District Finances|§ 6-20-417. Student awards — Definition

 (a)  (1) As used in this section, “net athletic event gate receipts” means the amount remaining from fees, including charges for reserved seating, collected for admission to a school district athletic event less any expenses, including any rental fee or any leasing cost for a facility used for the athletic event, paid by the school district from those gate receipts.  (2) “Net athletic event gate receipts” does not mean any portion of admission fees charged by a school district for an athletic event held at the school district or at a facility leased or rented by the school district that is remitted or passed through to another entity outside the school district.    (b)  (1) If approved by the board of directors of a school district, a school district may use net athletic event gate receipts to purchase letter jackets, sweaters, blankets, plaques, or similar items as awards for student participation in school-sponsored activities.  (2) The school district shall not expend more than an average of one hundred dollars ($100) per student per activity under subdivision (b)(1) of this section unless the school district has private funds that may be used for that purpose.    (c) Beginning July 1, 2007, a school district shall account for athletic gate receipts in a separate fund.
AR Code § 6-20-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 5 - Funds for Children with Disabilities and Foster Children|§ 6-20-501. Legislative determination

 The General Assembly recognizes that:   (1) Under present laws and practices, school students of this state may, for various reasons and purposes, be transferred or assigned to attend school in another district;  (2) In many such instances, the respective school districts involved here have entered into agreements with respect to the financial rights and responsibilities of the respective school districts involved in student transfer and assignment and have made provision for the sharing in the cost of the education of the child mutually acceptable to both districts;  (3) In many instances involving a child living in a foster home or a child with disabilities, as defined in this subchapter, the foster child or child with disabilities or the child's parent, guardian, or some other person having custody of the child or standing in the relationship of loco parentis to the child, enters or seeks to enter a school district other than the school district in which the parents of the child reside and that gross inequities are worked upon the school district receiving the child if the district is unable to receive the state, local, and federal funds available to the sending district for the education of the child; and  (4) Fairness and equity demand that appropriate rules and regulations be adopted to define the relative rights and responsibilities of the involved school districts to share the educational funds received by a sending district to educate a child with disabilities or a child living in a foster home who attends school in another school district in this state if it is determined that it is in the best interest of the education of the child with disabilities to attend school in the receiving district, so long as attendance therein is not based upon racial or other reasons which are contrary to applicable federal or state laws and regulations.
AR Code § 6-20-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 5 - Funds for Children with Disabilities and Foster Children|§ 6-20-502. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1)  (A) “Child living in a foster home” means a school-age child in this state who is in the custody of the Department of Human Services and placed in a licensed or approved foster home, shelter, or facility, or an exempt child welfare agency as defined under § 9-28-402.  (B) “Child living in a foster home” does not include a school-age child living in any unit of the human development centers operated by the department or its successor;    (2) “Child with disabilities” or “student with disabilities” means a person eligible to attend the public schools in this state who is identified as disabled in accordance with rules promulgated by the State Board of Education under the Children With Disabilities Act of 1973, § 6-41-201 et seq.;  (3) “Federal funds” means any federal funds received by the school district that are of a category or nature that would have benefited a child with disabilities or a child living in a foster home, as defined in this subchapter, if the child had attended the school district during the school year or the portion of the school year but who instead attended another school district in this state which makes application for funds to be used in behalf of the education of the child, as provided in this subchapter;  (4) “Local operating funds” means any local operating funds derived from property taxes for the school year, including any surplus funds received from millage pledged for indebtedness purposes but which are not necessary to meet debt service requirements and are transferred to the operating account of the school district for the year;  (5) “Receiving district” means a school district in this state in which a child attends or seeks to attend school other than the school district of residence of the child;  (6) “Sending district” means the school district that is defined by laws or rules as being the school district of residence of the school-age child; and  (7) “State funds” means any state funds received by the school district under the Public School Funding Act of 2003, § 6-20-2301 et seq., the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Funding Act, § 6-20-2501 et seq., or other state special education funds.
AR Code § 6-20-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 5 - Funds for Children with Disabilities and Foster Children|§ 6-20-503. Rules

 The State Board of Education shall adopt reasonable rules for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this subchapter and for the carrying out of the purposes and intent of this subchapter that reasonable procedures be established to assure that funds provided for the education of children living in foster homes and of children with disabilities, as defined in this subchapter, in this state shall be equitably and fairly shared by the school districts having the lawful responsibility for the education of such children in this state.
AR Code § 6-20-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 5 - Funds for Children with Disabilities and Foster Children|§ 6-20-505. Children with disabilities — Receiving district's request for funds

 (a) Whenever any child with disabilities attends or seeks to attend a school district other than the school district in which the child's lawful parents, guardian, or other person in loco parentis to the child resides, the receiving district may make application to the sending district requesting that all state, federal, local, or other funds received by the sending district in behalf of the education of the child for the school year or portion of the school year the child attends school in the receiving district be remitted by the sending district to the receiving district.  (b) Before requesting such funds, the requesting district shall have made a determination that:  (1) The child is a child with disabilities as defined in this subchapter and the applicable rules promulgated by the State Board of Education, as provided in this subchapter;  (2) The attendance of the child with disabilities in the school district is in the best interest of the education of the child with disabilities;  (3) The receiving district has accepted or is willing to accept the child with disabilities as a student; and  (4) The request for attendance at the receiving district is not based upon any racial or other reason that might be contrary to the laws and regulations of the United States or of this state or the rules promulgated by the state board under the provisions of this subchapter.    (c) The request for funds from the sending district shall be prepared by the receiving district in writing, setting forth the name of the child, the name and address of the parents, guardian, or other person lawfully responsible for the child, stating the reasons why the child is in attendance or seeks to attend the receiving district instead of the district in which the child should be in attendance, and stating that the receiving district has determined it is in the best interest of the education of the child with disabilities that the child be permitted to attend school in the receiving district.
AR Code § 6-20-506 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 5 - Funds for Children with Disabilities and Foster Children|§ 6-20-506. Children with disabilities — Approval or rejection of request

 (a) Within thirty (30) days after receiving a request for payment from the receiving district, the school district board of directors of the district to which the request is made shall review and either:  (1) Approve the request and make payment in behalf of the education of the child to the receiving district in the manner requested or as may be mutually agreed to by the districts; or  (2) If the school district board of directors rejects the request or rejects any of the terms thereof, the action shall be transmitted in writing to the district making the request within five (5) days after the action is taken, setting forth the reasons for rejecting the request or outlining the objections to or modifications proposed therein.    (b) The request for funds filed by the receiving district with the sending district shall seek payments that shall not exceed, unless the school districts shall mutually agree otherwise, the pro rata amount of state funds received per child for each category of state funds received by the school district, as the funds relate to the total number of students in attendance in the school district for which the funds were received.  (c)  (1) The amount of local funds to be remitted shall not exceed the pro rata amount per child of local operating funds as defined in this subchapter which are received by the school district from the sending district for property taxes for the school year, as these funds relate to the total number of school-age children in average daily attendance in the school district for the school year.  (2) The amount of federal funds to be remitted shall be the pro rata amount per child of federal funds as defined in this subchapter that are received for the category of all students eligible to receive federal funds who are within the same classification or category of the child with disabilities for which payment is sought.
AR Code § 6-20-507 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 5 - Funds for Children with Disabilities and Foster Children|§ 6-20-507. Children with disabilities — Hearing before hearing officer

 (a)  (1) Upon receipt of the written response, the requesting district in which the child is in attendance may, if the request is rejected, make application to the State Board of Education for a hearing officer to be designated to hold a hearing in regard to the request and to report recommendations to the state board.  (2) The hearing shall be held not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days from the date of the request for the appointment of a hearing officer.  (3) The hearing officer shall, at least ten (10) days before the hearing, notify the requesting district, the district to which the request is made, and all persons having an interest in or knowledge of the circumstances pertinent thereto, and the notice shall state the time and place of the hearing, which shall be held at a place designated by the hearing officer in a county in which one (1) of the school districts is located.  (4) At the hearing, the designated officials of the affected school districts and other interested parties shall appear and furnish testimony as requested by the hearing officer in regard to the request for the payments in behalf of the child.  (5) Upon conclusion of the hearing or within ten (10) days thereafter, the hearing officer shall file a written report, together with the hearing officer's recommendations, with the state board, with a copy thereof to be furnished to the superintendent of schools of the affected school districts.    (b)  (1) The hearing officer may recommend approval of the request to the state board if the hearing officer determines that:  (A) The application is made by or in behalf of a child with disabilities as defined in this subchapter;  (B) It is in the best interest of the education of the child to be admitted to or to continue to attend school in the receiving district;  (C) The child's educational needs can be better served in the receiving district; and  (D) The request for attendance at the receiving district is not based upon any racial or other reason that might be contrary to the laws, rules, and regulations of the United States or of this state or the rules promulgated by the state board under the provisions of this subchapter.    (2) Any district aggrieved by the report and recommendations of the hearing officer may appeal to the state board within thirty (30) days after the date of the ruling of the hearing officer.
AR Code § 6-20-508 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 5 - Funds for Children with Disabilities and Foster Children|§ 6-20-508. Children with disabilities — Hearing and ruling by State Board of Education

 (a)  (1) If a hearing by the State Board of Education is requested in writing by either or both of the affected school districts or any party to the action, at least ten (10) days before the next regular state board meeting, the state board shall schedule a hearing in regard thereto and shall give each of the affected districts and the affected parties at least five (5) days' notice of the date, time, and place of the hearing.  (2) On the day and at the time scheduled for the hearing, the state board may hear all interested parties and, upon conclusion thereof, may issue its ruling in regard to the application for payment of funds in behalf of the child with disabilities, and, unless an appeal is filed therefrom with a court of competent jurisdiction within twenty (20) days after the date of such ruling, the ruling shall be final and shall be binding on the school districts and the parties affected.    (b) If no hearing is requested within the time provided in subsection (a) of this section, the state board shall, at its next meeting scheduled after receipt of the hearing officer's report and recommendations, either approve, reject, or modify the ruling and give notice thereof in writing to the school districts involved within five (5) days, and the ruling shall be binding upon the school districts and parties affected unless an appeal is filed with a court of competent jurisdiction within twenty (20) days of the date of the ruling.
AR Code § 6-20-509 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 5 - Funds for Children with Disabilities and Foster Children|§ 6-20-509. Children with disabilities — Sending district's refusal to pay

 If the ruling of the State Board of Education provides for payment to be made by the sending district in behalf of the education of the child in the receiving district and if the sending district refuses to make payments in the amount approved by the state board, then, upon certification thereof by the receiving district, the state board shall cause the amount of any state, federal, local, or other funds not remitted to the receiving district to be withheld from the next state equalization aid to the district that has failed to make payments and shall remit the funds to the receiving district in compensation for payments not made by the sending district.
AR Code § 6-20-510 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 5 - Funds for Children with Disabilities and Foster Children|§ 6-20-510. Confidentiality of records

 All files and records that are required by the laws of this state or under the provisions of applicable federal laws or regulations to be kept confidential and all court orders pertaining to the confidentiality of records or prohibiting or limiting the disclosure thereof pertaining to a child living in a foster home or a child with disabilities under the provisions of this subchapter shall be strictly complied with by the respective school districts and by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education in all correspondence and transactions pertaining to the administration of the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-20-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 7 - School Lunch Program|§ 6-20-701. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “School” means public tax-supported elementary or high school;  (2) “School district” means:  (A) A geographic area with an elected board of directors that qualifies as a taxing unit for purposes of school district taxes under § 26-80-101 et seq., which board of directors conducts the daily affairs of public schools pursuant to the supervisory authority vested in it by the General Assembly and this title; and  (B) An open-enrollment public charter school; and    (3) “School lunch program” means a program under which lunches are served by any school in this state on a nonprofit basis to children in attendance, including any such program under which a school receives assistance out of funds appropriated by the United States Congress.
AR Code § 6-20-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 7 - School Lunch Program|§ 6-20-702. Administration generally

 (a) The State Board of Education may enter into such agreements with any agency of the United States Government, with any school district, or with any other agency or person and may prescribe such rules, employ such personnel, and take such other action as it may deem necessary to provide for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of any school lunch program and to direct the disbursement of federal and state funds, in accordance with any applicable provisions of federal or state law.  (b) The state board may give technical advice and assistance to any school district in connection with the establishment and operation of any school lunch program and may assist in training personnel engaged in the operation of such program.
AR Code § 6-20-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 7 - School Lunch Program|§ 6-20-703. Disposition of federal funds

 (a) The State Board of Education is authorized to accept and direct the disbursement of funds appropriated by any act of the United States Congress and apportioned to the state for use in connection with school lunch programs.  (b) The state board shall deposit all such funds received from the federal government into a special account and shall make disbursements directly to school districts upon receipt of proper claims prescribed by the state board.
AR Code § 6-20-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 7 - School Lunch Program|§ 6-20-704. Regulation and supervision of accounts, records, and operations

 (a) The State Board of Education shall prescribe rules for the keeping of accounts and records and the making of reports by or under the supervision of school districts.  (b) These accounts and records shall at all times be available for inspection and audit by authorized officials and shall be preserved for such period of time, not in excess of five (5) years, as the state board may lawfully prescribe.  (c) The state board shall conduct or cause to be conducted such audits, inspections, and administrative reviews of accounts, records, and operations with respect to school lunch programs as may be necessary to determine whether its agreements with the school district regulations made pursuant to this subchapter are being complied with and to ensure that school lunch programs are effectively administered.
AR Code § 6-20-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally|Chapter 20 - Finances|Subchapter 7 - School Lunch Program|§ 6-20-705. Studies and appraisals — Reports

 The State Board of Education is authorized, to the extent that funds are available for that purpose, and in cooperation with other appropriate agencies and organizations, to:   (1) Conduct studies of methods for improving and expanding school lunch programs and promoting nutritional education in the schools;  (2) Conduct appraisals of the nutritive benefits of school lunch programs; and  (3) Report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and to the General Assembly.