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AR Code § 6-42-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 42 - Gifted and Talented Children|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts|§ 6-42-302. Purpose — Location — Funding — Tuition

 (a) The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts shall be a residential high school for students who exhibit outstanding academic credentials and who have the ability to undertake course work in an environment and with demands similar to those of a university.  (b)  (1) The purposes of the school shall be to educate the gifted and talented math, science, and the fine and performing arts students of the state and to develop curricula and materials to improve instruction in mathematics, sciences, and the fine and performing arts for all students in the state.  (2) The school's curriculum, faculty, and admissions policies shall reflect the purposes described by this section.    (c) While the emphasis of the school shall be dedicated to the academic teaching of mathematics, sciences, and the fine and performing arts, emphasis may also be placed upon other areas of the arts and humanities as deemed appropriate by the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.  (d) The board of trustees shall maintain the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts in Hot Springs as a campus of the University of Arkansas, offering at that location the highest possible quality of educational programs as set forth in this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-42-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 42 - Gifted and Talented Children|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts|§ 6-42-303. Board of Visitors

 (a)  (1) There is established a Board of Visitors for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts.  (2) The persons serving on December 31, 2003, as members of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for Mathematics and Sciences shall be members of the Board of Visitors for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts and shall continue to serve for terms equal to the unexpired portions of their terms as members of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for Mathematics and Sciences.  (3) The Board of Visitors for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts shall consist of seven (7) members appointed by the Governor for seven-year terms.  (4) As initial terms expire and when vacancies occur, the Governor shall appoint a person to fill each vacancy for the remaining portion of the unexpired term.  (5) Appointments shall be for terms of seven (7) years or for the remaining portion of an unexpired term.    (b)  (1) In addition to possessing the qualifications of an elector, each member of the Board of Visitors for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts appointed by the Governor shall reside in the State of Arkansas.  (2) One (1) member shall be appointed from each congressional district, and the remaining members shall be appointed from the state at large.  (3)  (A) In addition to appointed members of the Board of Visitors for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, six (6) ex officio nonvoting members shall also serve on the Board of Visitors for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts as follows:  (i) The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education;  (ii) The Director of the Division of Higher Education;  (iii) The Director of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission or his or her designee;  (iv) The Director of the Division of Arkansas Heritage;  (v) The president of the parent association of the school; and  (vi) The president of the student government of the school.    (B) The terms of office of an ex officio nonvoting member shall continue so long as he or she occupies the position or office.      (c)  (1)  (A) The Board of Visitors for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts shall meet at least quarterly as the Board of Visitors for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts determines and shall elect from its voting members a chair, a vice chair, and a secretary.  (B) With prior notice to all members, special meetings may be called as needed by either the chair or any three (3) of the voting members of the Board of Visitors for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts.    (2) Regular minutes of its meetings shall be preserved.
AR Code § 6-42-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 42 - Gifted and Talented Children|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts|§ 6-42-305. Administrator — Staff

 (a)  (1) The Administrator of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts shall be the chief administrative officer of the school and shall administer the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts in accordance with policies established by the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas.  (2) The administrator shall be employed by the board of trustees after appropriate advice and counsel of the Board of Visitors of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts.    (b) Upon recommendation of the administrator, the board of trustees shall employ other personnel as it deems necessary for the operation of the school.  (c)  (1) Instructors shall be employed by the board of trustees and shall have such rights, privileges, and obligations as the board of trustees shall determine except that they shall not be eligible for tenure nor carry professional rank.  (2) In the event that policies of the board of trustees conflict with existing law with respect to terms and conditions of employment of instructors and staff, the policies shall control.    (d) Instructors and staff of the school shall continue to be eligible for membership in the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and to earn credited service for employment at the school or, at their election, shall be eligible to participate in the retirement system of the University of Arkansas.
AR Code § 6-42-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 42 - Gifted and Talented Children|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts|§ 6-42-306. Division of Elementary and Secondary Education rules

 All Division of Elementary and Secondary Education rules shall apply to the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts unless the division determines otherwise or unless the rules conflict with governance of the school by the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas and the purposes and intent of this subchapter.
AR Code § 6-42-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 42 - Gifted and Talented Children|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts|§ 6-42-307. School for Math, Sciences, and Arts Fund

 (a) There is created 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 “School for Math, Sciences, and Arts Fund”.  (b) The fund shall be used to provide for the maintenance, operation, and improvement required by the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts in carrying out its powers, functions, and duties as set out by law.  (c) The fund shall consist of moneys allocated and transferred from the Educational Excellence Trust Fund, any general revenues as may be provided by the Revenue Stabilization Law, § 19-5-101 et seq., and any other moneys as may be authorized by law.
AR Code § 6-42-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 42 - Gifted and Talented Children|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts|§ 6-42-308. School qualifies as local education agency

 (a) The General Assembly designates that the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts meets the definition of a “local education agency” because the school is a public authority legally constituted within this state to perform a service function for public secondary schools and is a public institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a secondary school.  (b) This section intends to recognize the function of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts and to provide eligibility to the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts to receive federal funds.  (c) Nothing in this section shall permit the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts to receive funds from the Public School Fund except pursuant to a line item appropriation.
AR Code § 6-42-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 42 - Gifted and Talented Children|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts|§ 6-42-309. Charter school option

 (a) The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas may petition the State Board of Education for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts to receive public charter school status under the Arkansas Quality Charter Schools Act of 2013, § 6-23-101 et seq.  (b) If the petition is granted, funding for the public charter school shall be made pursuant to an appropriation by the General Assembly for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts.
AR Code § 6-42-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 42 - Gifted and Talented Children|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts|§ 6-42-310. School district access provided to the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts

 Upon a written request made by the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, a school district shall provide reasonable access to the school district campus for the purpose of contacting students regarding potential enrollment at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts.
AR Code § 6-43-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 43 - Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-43-102. Powers and duties of board

 (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf created in § 6-43-101 is charged with the management and control of the Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf.  (b) The board shall have the power, authority, and duties formerly conferred by law on the board it succeeds including those set forth below:  (1) The board shall exercise such powers of supervision and control as are not specifically reserved to the superintendent; and  (2) The board, in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Education, shall fix the salaries of officers and employees not already fixed by law.
AR Code § 6-43-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 43 - Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-43-103. Superintendents

 (a) The immediate conduct and management of the Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf shall be entrusted to superintendents.  (b) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf, in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Education, shall select the superintendents of the institutions committed to its care.  (c)  (1) Each of the superintendents shall be required to give bond in a sum fixed by the board, payable to the State of Arkansas, for the faithful discharge of his or her duties and the proper accounting for all moneys and property coming into his or her possession as such officer.  (2) The bonds shall be made by any surety company authorized to do business in Arkansas, approved by the Governor, filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and paid for by the state out of current expenses appropriated by the respective institutions.    (d) The superintendents of the schools shall be required to give their entire time to the management and operation of their respective institutions and shall be selected because of their previous training and fitness to care for the schools entrusted to their care.
AR Code § 6-43-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 43 - Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-43-104. Employees generally

 (a) The superintendents shall have power to select and engage all employees of the schools at salaries fixed by the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Education, reporting the same for approval to the board at the next regular meeting thereof.  (b) The superintendents shall have the power to remove employees of the respective schools and may remove any employee at any time in their discretion for cause, but, in case of removal, the superintendent shall report the removal and the ground therefor to the board and the secretary.
AR Code § 6-43-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 43 - Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-43-105. Attendance — Enforcement

 (a) Every parent, guardian, or other person having control of any mentally normal minor over eight (8) years of age who is defective in hearing or sight to the extent that he or she cannot be benefited by instruction in the public schools shall be required to send such a minor to the Arkansas School for the Deaf or the Arkansas School for the Blind.  (b) The minor shall continue to attend the schools for a term of at least thirty-two (32) weeks each year until he or she has completed the course of instruction prescribed for the schools by the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf or any other body or person designated by law to have control of the schools, respectively, or until he or she has been discharged by the superintendent of the school.  (c) The deaf or blind minor shall be exempt from attendance at the schools for any of the following reasons:  (1) Instruction by a private tutor or in another school approved by the board of trustees or any other body or person designated by law to have control of the schools for a time equal to that required by subsection (b) of this section;  (2) Physical incapacity for school work; or  (3) Any other reason deemed good and sufficient by the superintendent of the school with the approval of the board of trustees.    (d)  (1) Failure for a period of one (1) week within the school year to send such a minor to school shall constitute an offense.  (2) However, the time necessary for such a minor to travel from his or her home to Little Rock shall not be counted as time absent from school.    (e) Any person who induces or attempts to induce such deaf or blind minor to absent himself or herself from school or who employs or harbors such a minor unlawfully while the schools are in session shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.  (f) It shall be the duty of county boards, or the boards' designees, school attendance officers, prosecuting attorneys, and any special attendance officers appointed by the Arkansas School for the Deaf and the Arkansas School for the Blind as well as all peace officers to enforce the provisions of this section.  (g) Any parent, guardian, or other person in charge of such a minor or minors who fails or refuses to comply with the requirements of this section shall be guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense.
AR Code § 6-43-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 43 - Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-43-106. Deaf and blind children — Out-of-state facilities

 (a) The Arkansas School for the Blind is authorized to expend available funds for the purpose of sending children under the age of twenty-one (21), who are deaf as well as blind and for which there are no facilities for education in this state, to any school, institution, or other place outside the State of Arkansas providing a qualified program of education for such children.  (b) The funds may be spent for room, board, tuition, transportation, and other items which are necessarily relevant to the education of such children.  (c) In interpreting and carrying out the provisions of this section, the words “deaf-blind children”, wherever used, will be construed to include any child whose combination of disabilities of deafness and blindness would prevent him or her from profiting satisfactorily from educational programs now provided for the blind child or the deaf child by the State of Arkansas.  (d) The school is authorized to determine if such children should be sent to such out-of-state facilities.  (e) The school is authorized to promulgate such rules as it deems necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes and intent of this section.
AR Code § 6-43-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 43 - Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-43-107. Application for admission — Certificate of residence

 Whenever application is made for the admission of any blind or hearing impaired person into the Arkansas School for the Blind or the Arkansas School for the Deaf, as a beneficiary of the privileges thereof, the application shall be accompanied by the certificate of the county judge that the person is a legal resident of the county of the State of Arkansas in which it is claimed that he or she resides.
AR Code § 6-43-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 43 - Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-43-108. Removal of pupils

 (a)  (1) Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the proper officers of either of the schools, in accordance with the bylaws and rules thereof, to have pupils removed, either temporarily on account of ill health or the vacation of the school, or permanently on account of having completed their course of instruction or having been found disqualified, from any cause, for a longer continuance in the school, the parents, or guardians, if they have any, of such pupils shall promptly remove them upon the requirement of the officers.  (2) In case they shall not be thus provided for, it shall be the duty of the superintendent or principal of such institution to cause them to be so removed to their houses or delivered to the proper officers of the counties in which they may reside.    (b)  (1) The expense of removal shall be refunded to each institution in the same manner as is provided in § 6-43-109.  (2) The county sheriff may collect it in the same manner as is provided in § 6-43-109.
AR Code § 6-43-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 6 - Education|Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs|Chapter 43 - Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-43-109. Clothing and traveling expenses — Generally

 (a) When such persons, upon proper application, are admitted as pupils of either the Arkansas School for the Blind or the Arkansas School for the Deaf, it shall be the duty of their parents, guardians, or other friends to suitably provide them with clothing at the time of their entrance into the school, and during their continuance therein, and to defray their traveling expenses to and from the institution, not only at the time of their first entrance and final departure but at any other time when it shall become necessary for them to leave or return to the school.  (b)  (1)  (A) In all cases in which suitable clothing and means for defraying traveling expenses are not otherwise supplied to the pupils of the schools, suitable clothing and means of defraying travel expenses shall be provided by the superintendent or principal of the respective schools, who shall make out and file with the Auditor of State accounts for the clothing and travel expenses, separate in each case, against the respective counties from which such pupils are sent, in an amount not exceeding forty dollars ($40.00) per annum for any one (1) pupil.  (B) The accounts shall be severally signed by the proper superintendent or principal.    (2) The Auditor of State shall draw his or her warrant on the Treasurer of State for the amounts, which shall be paid out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated.  (3) However, the amount drawn by either institution for the aforesaid purposes per year shall not exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000).  (4) Each account thus certified shall be charged to the county from which the pupil named therein was sent.  (5)  (A) The Auditor of State shall forward a certified copy of each account so filed with him or her to the sheriff of the proper county, who shall proceed to collect the account in the name of the State of Arkansas, as other debts are collected, and the money so collected shall be paid over to the Treasurer of State, who shall give receipts therefor as in case of other moneys paid into the State Treasury.  (B) However, if the sheriff shall be unable to collect the amount of any bill from the parents or estate of any pupil, then the bill shall be refunded to the state out of the county treasury.