Arkansas Administrative Code

6 CAR § 248-106. Monitoring and support. (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall monitor each public school district to ensure implementation and compliance with this part and the School Counseling Improvement Act of 2019, Arkansas Code § 6-18-2001 et seq. (b…

6 CAR § 249-101. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) “Arkansas Center for School Safety” means the state school safety clearinghouse: (A) Administered by the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) of the University of Arkansas system through a partnership between CJI and the Departm…

6 CAR § 249-102. School safety assessment, emergency response drills, and floor plans. (a)(1) A public school district shall conduct a comprehensive school safety assessment at least once every three (3) years to assess the safety, security, accessibility, and emergency preparedn…

6 CAR § 249-103. School resource officers. (a)(1) A school district board of directors, or entity authorized to act on behalf of an open-enrollment public charter school, that accepts a school resource officer shall either enter into a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with the…

6 CAR § 249-104. School safety expert. (a) A public school district shall have a school safety expert review and advise on architectural plans for a public school facility before the new construction of the public school facility. (b) The requirements for a school safety expert s…

6 CAR § 249-105. Student mental health. Each public school district shall support student mental health on a timeline to be established by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education by: (1) Supporting access to training in youth mental health for all school personnel, inc…

6 CAR § 249-106. Promotion of student safety and security. Each public school district shall work with local law enforcement to improve school safety and security by: (1) Developing plans to increase the presence of uniformed law enforcement on all public school campuses at all t…

6 CAR § 249-107. Duty to report. (a)(1) Whenever the principal or other person in charge of a public school has personal knowledge or has received information leading to a reasonable belief that any person has committed or has threatened to commit an act of violence or any crime …

6 CAR § 249-108. School safety funds. (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that funds set aside for school safety grants be disbursed by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to public school districts, open-enrollment charter schools, and other educational e…

6 CAR § 270-101. Purpose. The purpose of this part is to establish how the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education will: (1) Review the financial management practices of public school districts, including identifying best financial management practices; (2) Evaluate, asses…

6 CAR § 270-102. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) “Annexation” means the joining of an affected school district or part of an affected school district with a receiving district pursuant to Arkansas Code § 6-13-1401 et seq.; (2) “Capital outlay expenditures” means land, land…

6 CAR § 270-103. Indicators of fiscal distress. (a) A school district meeting any of the following criteria may be identified by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to be a school district in fiscal distress upon final approval by the State Board of Education: (1)(…

6 CAR § 270-104. Classification of fiscal distress status. (a) Those school districts identified by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education as being in fiscal distress shall be classified as school districts in fiscal distress upon final determination (classification) …

6 CAR § 270-105. Notification and appeal. (a)(1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall provide written notice via certified mail, return receipt requested, to the president of the school board of directors and the superintendent of each school district identifi…

6 CAR § 270-106. Fiscal distress improvement plan. (a)(1) School districts classified by the State Board of Education as being in fiscal distress shall file with the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education within ten (10) days after the final classification a written fisca…

6 CAR § 270-107. Debt issuance. No school district identified in fiscal distress may incur any debt without the prior written approval of the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education.

6 CAR § 270-108. Division of Elementary and Secondary Education fiscal distress actions. (a) In addressing public school districts in fiscal distress, the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education may: (1) Remove permanently, reassign, or suspend on a temporary basis the…

6 CAR § 270-109. State Board of Education actions. (a)(1) After a public hearing, the State Board of Education shall consolidate, annex, or reconstitute the school district in fiscal distress to another school district or school districts upon a majority vote of a quorum of the m…

6 CAR § 270-110. Fiscal support and monitoring. (a) When a public school district is returned to local control or removed from fiscal distress status, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education: (1) Shall monitor the fiscal operations and accounts of the public school dis…

6 CAR § 270-111. General business manager qualifications. (a)(1) A general business manager for a public school district or education service cooperative shall either: (A) Meet the qualifications of a Certified Arkansas School Business Official (CASBO) based on the requirements e…

6 CAR § 271-101. Purpose. The purpose of this part is to provide information regarding declining enrollment and student growth funding for public school districts.

6 CAR § 271-102. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) “Average daily membership (ADM)” means: (A) The total number of days of school attended; plus (B) The total number of days absent by students in kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) during the first three (3) quarters of…

6 CAR § 271-103. Declining enrollment funding. (a) Declining enrollment funding is equal to: (1) The three-quarter ADM of the prior fiscal year; subtracted from (2) The average of the three-quarter ADM of the prior fiscal year and the ADM of the fiscal year prior to the prior fis…

6 CAR § 271-104. Student growth funding. (a)(1) Student growth funding is calculated as the sum of the following amounts: (A) One quarter (1/4) of the current foundation funding amount per student as established by the General Assembly; multiplied by (B) The increase, if any, in …

6 CAR § 272-101. Purpose. The purpose of this part is to: (1) Distribute student special needs funding; and (2) Define the allowable expenditures of those funds.

6 CAR § 272-102. Definitions. As used in this part: (1)(A) “Alternative learning environment (ALE)” means a student intervention program consisting of an alternate class or program within a public school or school district that: (i) Affords all students an environment that seeks …

6 CAR § 272-201. ALE general requirements. (a)(1) Every school district shall provide one (1) or more eligible alternative learning environments (ALE) for all students meeting the criteria of 6 CAR § 272-202(a)(1) by any of the following methods: (A) A school district may establi…

6 CAR § 272-202. ALE student eligibility and placement. (a)(1) To be placed in an ALE, a student must: (A) Need innovative programs and strategies that typically cannot be provided through regular school options; and (B) Be experiencing or exhibiting two (2) or more of the situat…

6 CAR § 272-203. ALE personnel requirements. (a) Administrative, teaching, and other personnel in an ALE shall meet appropriate state licensure and renewal requirements for the positions to which they are assigned. (b) Every classroom in an ALE program shall maintain student/teac…

6 CAR § 272-204. ALE curriculum and program requirements. (a) An ALE shall assess each ALE student either before or upon entry into the ALE with effective, research-based assessment tools to determine the student’s current academic capability. (b)(1) An ALE shall provide a curric…

6 CAR § 272-205. ALE program approval, reporting, and monitoring. (a)(1)(A) Each ALE program shall submit to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education every three (3) years, in electronic format, a program description documenting the program’s compliance with: (i) Arkans…

6 CAR § 272-206. ALE funding. (a) The ALE funding amount shall be: (1) The amount authorized by law; multiplied by (2) The district’s eligible ALE students’ full-time equivalents (FTE) in the previous school year as defined in this part. (b) An ALE student shall be counted as no …

6 CAR § 272-301. Home Language Usage Survey. A school district shall conduct a Home Language Usage Survey for each student upon initial enrollment to identify students who need to be screened for English-language learner status.

6 CAR § 272-302. ELL funding. (a) The ELL funding amount shall be: (1) The amount authorized by law; multiplied by (2) The district’s identified ELL students in the current school year. (b) The number of identified ELL students shall be a total of all students identified as not p…

6 CAR § 272-303. ELL documentation. School districts shall maintain documentation of each student identified as a current or former ELL.

6 CAR § 272-304. Assessment. For ELL funding purposes, the state-approved English proficiency assessment is the English Language Proficiency Assessment for the 21st Century, screener or summative version.

6 CAR § 272-305. ELL activities eligible for funding. ELL funding shall be expended for eligible activities including, but not limited to, the following: (1) Salaries for ELL-skilled instructional services (not supplanting district financial obligations for providing teachers for…

6 CAR § 272-306. Carryover of funds. ELL funding may be carried over from one (1) fiscal year to the next, but these funds shall remain restricted to those priority areas defined in this part except as otherwise allowed by law or rule.

6 CAR § 272-307. Description and budget. A description and budget of ELL activities and funding shall be included in the district’s financial management software.

6 CAR § 272-308. Language Instruction Educational Program. A public school district shall offer a Language Instruction Educational Program for identified ELL students in accordance with all applicable federal laws and regulations, including without limitation: (1) The Equal Educa…

6 CAR § 272-309. Core English-language learner plan. A description of the school district’s core ELL plan identifying the district’s chosen English Language Development Model and the district’s Access to Core Content Program Model shall be submitted to the Division of Elementary …

6 CAR § 272-401. Basis for enhanced student achievement funding. (a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (f) and subdivision (g)(2) of this section, enhanced student achievement funding under Arkansas Code § 6-20-2305(b)(4) shall be based on the: (A) Number of national school lun…

6 CAR § 272-402. Determining percentage of NSLA-eligible students. (a) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, the district percentage of NSLA-eligible students shall be determined from the Arkansas Public School Computer Network’s Cycle 2 report for the previous sc…

6 CAR § 272-403. Enhanced student achievement state growth funding. (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall use the Cycle 2 enrollment data for the previous four (4) years to calculate a three-year trend in district enrollment. (b) If a district has grown at …

6 CAR § 272-404. Transitional enhanced student achievement funding methods. (a) If a school district would receive, in the current school year, enhanced student achievement funding under Arkansas Code § 6-20-2305(b)(4)(A) that is based on a different per-student amount of enhance…

6 CAR § 272-405. Required use of enhanced student achievement funds. (a) Each school district receiving enhanced student achievement funds shall use such funds for evidence-based program or programs or purpose or purposes for students at risk in order to improve instruction and i…

6 CAR § 272-406. Impermissible use of enhanced student achievement funds. Enhanced student achievement funding shall not be used to meet, satisfy, or supplant the Rules Governing Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts, 6 CAR pt. 61, as require…