Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 6 - EDUCATION (§§ 6-1-101 — 6-87-104) › Subtitle 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION GENERALLY (§§ 6-10-101 — 6-28-206) › Chapter 15 - EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS AND QUALITY GENERALLY (§§ 6-15-101 — 6-15-3204) › Subchapter 29 - ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT (§§ 6-15-2901 — 6-15-2918) › Section 6-15-2903 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter:
(1)
"Academic growth" means the calculation of a student's academic progress from one school year to the next, as measured by assessments and other criteria required by rule of the State Board of Education;
(2)
"College and career readiness assessment" means a set of criterion-referenced measurements of a student's acquisition of the knowledge and skills that the student needs to:
(A)
Be successful in future endeavors, including credit-bearing, first-year courses at an institution of higher education such as a two-year or four-year college, trade school, or technical school; or
(B)
Embark on a career;
(3)
"Consolidated state plan" means the Arkansas consolidated state application accountability plan required under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Pub. L. No. 89-10, as reauthorized by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, Pub. L. No. 114-95;
(4)
(A)
"Educator" means a person holding a valid Arkansas standard teaching license, an ancillary license, a provisional license, a technical permit, or an administrator's license issued by the state board.
(B)
"Educator" includes a licensed or nonlicensed classroom teacher or administrator employed in a position under a waiver from licensure;
(5)
"English language arts" means the academic standards for English, reading, and writing;
(6)
"English learner" means an individual whose native language is a language other than English or who comes from an environment where a language other than English has had a significant impact on the individual's level of English language proficiency, and is not considered proficient in English as measured by an approved English language proficiency assessment;
(7)
"Personally identifiable information" means the same as in
34 C.F.R. § 99.3
, as it existed on January 1, 2017;
(8)
"Public school" means:
(A)
A school operated by a public school district; or
(B)
An open-enrollment public charter school, as defined in §
6-23-103
;
(9)
"Public school district" means:
(A)
A geographic area that:
(i)
Is governed by an elected board of directors that conducts the daily affairs of public schools pursuant to the supervisory authority vested by this title; and
(ii)
Qualifies as a taxing unit for purposes of ad valorem property taxes under §
26-1-101
et seq. and Arkansas Constitution, Article 14, § 3; or
(B)
An open-enrollment public charter school, as defined in §
6-23-103
;
(10)
"School-level improvement plan" means a plan that at a minimum:
(A)
Establishes goals or anticipated outcomes;
(B)
Identifies student supports or interventions to be implemented; and
(C)
Describes the professional learning necessary for adults to deliver the supports or interventions;
(11)
"School district systems" means the operations and procedures that occur within a public school district, including without limitation:
(A)
Academics;
(B)
Facilities;
(C)
Fiscal operations;
(D)
Human capital management; and
(E)
Student support services; and
(12)
"Student success plan" means a personalized education plan intended to assist students with achieving readiness for college, career, and community engagement.
Amended by Act 2023, No. 793,§ 4, eff. 8/1/2023.
Added by Act 2017, No. 930,§ 2, eff. 8/1/2017.