Title 15 — Education

1. Prescribe a minimum course of study incorporating the academic standards adopted by the state board of education to be taught in the common schools. 2. Prescribe competency requirements for the promotion of pupils from the eighth grade and competency requirements for the promo…

1. Prescribe a minimum course of study that incorporates the academic standards adopted by the state board for the graduation of pupils from high school. 2. Prescribe competency requirements for the graduation of pupils from high school incorporating the academic standards in at …

[Repealed or reserved.]

1. Mental health experts, including representatives from the department of health services. 2. Mental health advocacy organizations that are based in this state. 3. The department of education.

B. Each school district governing board and charter school governing body shall develop and adopt policies concerning transfer credits for foster children who transfer to the school district or charter school pursuant to a best interest educational placement determination while t…

A. Any person who is sixteen years of age or older and who passes an equivalency test adopted by the state board of education shall be awarded an Arizona high school equivalency diploma by the state board of education and the state superintendent of public instruction. The state …

A. The governing board may: 1. Establish departments of industrial arts and consumer education and homemaking. 2. Employ special teachers in special subjects. B. Each common school district or unified school district shall establish a kindergarten program, unless the governing bo…

A. Each school district or charter school that provides instruction in kindergarten programs and grades one through three shall select and administer screening, ongoing diagnostic and classroom-based instructional reading assessments, including a motivational assessment, to monit…

A. Each governing board after consultation with parents and teachers shall adopt policies and procedures governing requirements for pupils' participation in extracurricular activities for pupils in grade six, if the grade is part of a middle school, and grades seven through twelv…

A. If a school district chooses to provide instruction in environmental education, the environmental education program shall: 1. Be based on current and reliable scientific information. 2. Include a discussion of economic and social implications. B. For the purposes of this secti…

A. A school district or charter school that provides high school instruction may establish a college and career readiness program for at-risk students. A program established pursuant to this section shall meet the following requirements: 1. Consist of at least nine consecutive mo…

If the statewide assessment results are available before the start of each school year, each school district and charter school shall provide notification no later than the first half of the second quarter of the school year to parents of pupils in grades six through eight who ha…

All schools shall give instruction in the essentials, sources and history of the Constitutions of the United States and Arizona and instruction in American institutions and ideals and in the history of Arizona, including the history of Native Americans in Arizona. The instruction…

[Repealed or reserved.]

[Repealed or reserved.]

A. School districts and charter schools may not provide sex education instruction before grade five. B. Before a parent provides written permission for the parent's child to participate in any sex education curricula, the school district or charter school shall make the sex educa…

(L21, Ch. 404, sec. 21) Notwithstanding any other law, age-appropriate and grade-appropriate classroom instruction regarding child assault awareness and abuse prevention is allowed.

A. Instruction on the nature and harmful effects of alcohol, tobacco, narcotic drugs, marijuana, date rape drugs and other dangerous drugs on the human system and instruction on the laws related to the control of these substances and the nonuse and prevention of use and abuse of …

A. A school district that provides instruction in grades seven through twelve may incorporate dating abuse information that is age appropriate into the school district's existing health curriculum for pupils in grades seven through twelve that includes the following components: 1…

A. The Arizona game and fish department may provide training in the safe handling and use of bows or firearms and safe hunting practices, in conjunction with the common schools and high schools of the state when the schools request the training. B. The Arizona game and fish depar…

A. Training courses may be offered on a voluntary basis pursuant to section 17-245. B. The courses held for students in the common schools and high schools shall be elective only, and attendance in such classes shall not be considered in computing a school district's student coun…

A. In addition to the voluntary training in the use of bows and firearms prescribed in sections 15-713 and 15-714, any school district or charter school may offer as an elective course a one semester, one credit course in firearm marksmanship that shall be designated as the Arizo…

A. Each common and unified school district shall develop a plan to supplement the regular education program by providing special academic assistance to pupils in kindergarten programs and grades one through three. The purpose of the special academic assistance is to assist pupils…

A. Each common, high and unified school district may provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten programs and grades one through twelve on acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the human immunodeficiency virus. B. Each school district may develop its own course of study for e…

A teacher or administrator in any school in this state may read or post in any school building copies or excerpts of the following materials: 1. The national motto "in God we trust". 2. The national anthem. 3. The pledge of allegiance. 4. The preamble to the constitution of this …

A. The state board of education shall include in history or English arts standards, or both, concepts that include: 1. The history and literature of the old testament era. 2. The history and literature of the new testament era. B. The standards adopted pursuant to subsection A of…

(L21, Ch. 404, sec. 21) A. A teacher, administrator or other employee of a school district, charter school or state agency who is involved with students and teachers in grades preschool through the twelfth grade may not use public monies for instruction that presents any form of …

1. Develop civic education standards that school districts and charter schools must include pursuant to section 15-701.01. The civic education standards must include instruction on: (a) The original intent of the founding documents and principles of the United States as found in …

A. On or before July 1, 2019, school districts and charter schools shall provide public school pupils with one or more training sessions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, through the use of psychomotor skills in an age-appropriate manner, during high school. This training shall b…

B. Each district may develop its own course of study for each grade. At a minimum, the character education program must include: 1. Instruction in the definition and application of at least six of the following character traits: truthfulness, responsibility, compassion, diligence…

B. A public school that offers instruction in grades seven and eight shall be deemed to offer a fair opportunity to pupils who wish to conduct a meeting within a limited open forum pursuant to this section if the school policy on noncurriculum group meetings conforms to all of th…

A. A school district governing board or charter school may prescribe a separate personal finance course for the graduation of pupils from high school or incorporate personal finance instruction into an existing course or existing curricula for the graduation of pupils from high s…

A. The governing board shall approve for common schools the course of study, the basic textbook for each course and all units recommended for credit under each general subject title before implementing the course. B. If any course does not include a basic textbook, the governing …

A. The governing board shall approve for high schools the course of study and all units that are recommended for credit under each general subject title before implementing the course. B. The governing board shall approve for high schools the basic textbook for each course and ma…

A. Free textbooks, subject matter materials and supplementary books shall be furnished in common schools and all state welfare institutions maintaining educational facilities, subject to section 15-727. B. Governing boards shall furnish free required textbooks and related printed…

A. The governing board may include in its proposed school district budget finances required for the purchase of textbooks, subject matter materials and supplementary books for the use of registered high school pupils. B. The governing board may charge a reasonable rental fee for …

A. In all schools having four or fewer teachers, the county school superintendent may have advisory authority to assist the governing board in the selection and ordering of textbooks and instructional computer software pursuant to this title. B. State welfare institutions maintai…

All textbooks, subject matter materials, supplementary books and instructional computer software in the possession of the school districts and those textbooks, subject matter materials, supplementary books and instructional computer software purchased by school districts as provi…

A pupil or parent may purchase from the governing board such books as necessary for high school pupils at the price the governing board pays for the books.

A school district may hold and use all monies obtained for lost or damaged school textbooks, subject matter materials, supplementary books or instructional computer software to repair or replace textbooks, subject matter materials, supplementary books or instructional computer so…

On written request, school personnel designated by the governing board shall permit parents or guardians access to instructional materials currently used by or being considered for use by the school district by making available at least one copy of the instructional material for …

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Accessible electronic file" means, until a national file format is adopted by the United States department of education, a digital file in a mutually agreed on by the publisher and the local educational agency electronic…

A. The state board of education shall adopt rules on or before August 1, 2005 that require all school districts and other public schools to purchase adopted printed and nonprinted instructional materials for which accessible electronic files are available or, in the case of nonpr…

A. The state board of education shall: 1. Adopt rules for the purposes of this article pursuant to title 41, chapter 6. 2. Adopt and implement a statewide assessment to measure pupil achievement of the state board-adopted academic standards in reading, writing and mathematics in …

A. Based on the data reported on the report cards as prescribed in this article, the state board shall adopt specific state level objectives for each of the following goal areas: 1. Achievement levels of pupils at the end of grade three, grade eight and grade twelve. 2. Dropout a…

A. The state board of education shall adopt a menu of achievement assessments to measure pupil achievement of the state academic standards. Beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, each local education agency that offers instruction in grades nine through twelve may select from th…

Notwithstanding any other law, the department of education may not renew any current contract for any portion of the statewide assessment adopted pursuant to section 15-741 or reestablish a new contract for any portion of the statewide assessment adopted pursuant to section 15-74…

A. The state board of education shall enter into contracts with contractors for the purchase of the tests adopted by the state board pursuant to sections 15-203 and 15-741. Notwithstanding section 41-2546, the state board may enter into contracts for the purchase of nationally st…

A. The state board of education shall provide annual reports for every school and school district and the state as a whole. The state board shall annually submit these reports to school districts, the legislature and the county school superintendents and shall make them available…

A. This article shall not be construed to require the testing of children who are instructed in a homeschool program while they are receiving homeschool instruction. B. A child who enrolls in a kindergarten program or grades one through twelve after receiving instruction in a hom…