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 16 - CURRICULUM (§§ 6-16-101 — 6-16-1902) › Subchapter 16 - ARKANSAS HIGH-IMPACT TUTORING PILOT PROGRAM (§§ 6-16-1601 — 6-16-1604) › Section 6-16-1603 - Administration

Beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall administer the Arkansas High-Impact Tutoring Pilot Program, which shall include without limitation:
(1)
Determining:
(A)
Program requirements;
(B)
Student eligibility criteria, which shall consider without limitation the academic performance of student groups across grades and subjects; and
(C)
A process for providing competitive grant funding to each public school district and open-enrollment public charter school participating in the program for purposes of providing in-school, high-impact tutoring;
(2)
Approving and making publicly available on the division's website participating public school district and open-enrollment public charter school tutoring program plans;
(3)
Identifying and communicating allowable uses for grant funding, as permitted by state and federal law, which may include without limitation:
(A)
Hiring or contracting for tutors or providing stipends or other incentives to paraprofessionals, retired teachers, and community organizations to ensure maximum tutoring capacity;
(B)
Developing instructional materials and related supplies;
(C)
Covering administrative expenses;
(D)
Covering costs associated with technology-enabled tutoring solutions and related devices;
(E)
Contracting with approved tutoring providers for products and services related to high-impact tutoring; and
(F)
Other uses designed to increase the effectiveness of the Arkansas High-Impact Tutoring Program;
(4)
Providing training, technical assistance, and guidance, including without limitation the topic of sustaining of high-impact tutoring through existing funding streams to participating public school districts and open-enrollment public charter schools conducting in-school, high-impact tutoring;
(5)
Awarding and distributing program grants, subject to legislative appropriation of available funding;
(6)
Pursuing available private and federal grant funding to expand the state investment in the program;
(7)
Creating reporting templates, procedures, and definitions for reporting metrics for participating public school districts and open-enrollment public charter schools to use in collecting and reporting tutoring-related data to the division;
(8)
Including required data reports within existing state data reporting structures to streamline the data collection process for participating public school districts and open-enrollment public charter schools, where feasible;
(9)
Identifying, vetting, and creating an approved list of high-impact tutoring providers and other tutoring models that may be used by participating public school districts and open-enrollment public charter schools; and
(10)
Providing annually to the General Assembly a report that includes without limitation the following:
(A)
Data regarding participating public school students' access to high-impact tutoring and program implementation, including by geography, grade span, and subject based on program requirements, including without limitation:
(i)
How data required under this subdivision (10)(A) have changed over time;
(ii)
The number of students who received high-impact tutoring;
(iii)
The attendance of students who received high-impact tutoring in the program; and
(iv)
The number of students eligible for high-impact tutoring;
(B)
Data on achievement and growth outcomes from participating public school students;
(C)
Program successes and challenges;
(D)
Recommendations for policy changes in future years in order to ensure every child in Arkansas can access high-impact tutoring as needed; and
(E)
An overview of actions taken to support every participating public school district and open-enrollment public charter school to ensure that high-impact tutoring is available to every eligible child in Arkansas.
Added by Act 2023, No. 237,§ 20, eff. 3/8/2023.