Title 6, Education

(a) The State Board of Education shall:(1) Have general supervision of the public schools of the state;(2) Recommend courses of study for the public schools and teacher training institutions;(3) Issue licenses based upon credentials presented by applicants for licenses to teach i…

The State Board of Education shall adopt a seal, and the seal shall be used by the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education to authenticate documents or copies of documents as the state board or commissioner may deem advisable.

(a) The State Board of Education shall prescribe a uniform system of records to be kept by the school directors, principals, and teachers of schools. (b) All the school officials and employees listed in subsection (a) of this section shall make reports to the Commissioner of Elem…

(a) The State Board of Education shall keep in the office of the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education a complete record of the minutes of its meetings and other proceedings and annually shall make a report to the Governor that shall embody the report of the commissi…

The State Board of Education is empowered to make plans, promulgate rules, and seek waivers for flexibility as necessary for this state to meet the requirements of a law enacted by the United States Congress for general education, including without limitation the Elementary and S…

(a) (1) The General Assembly accepts all federal aid to education that may be provided by the United States Congress.(2) The State Board of Education is designated as the state educational authority for the purpose of representing the state in the administration of funds provided…

The State Board of Education is authorized to enter into and carry out such contractual agreements and arrangements with local school districts and other agencies as may be found necessary to implement any and all sections of Pub. L. No. 89-10, as amended, and other federal progr…

(a) The Commission for Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation is granted authority to prescribe principles, standards, and criteria to be followed in setting up priority of projects, provided that such principles, standards, and criteria are not in conflict…

Copies of any papers or documents on file in the office of the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education authenticated by him or her with the seal of the State Board of Education shall be admissible in evidence with the same effect as the original.

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to provide supervision, accreditation, and other services essential to the development of desirable educational programs for children at the elementary and secondary levels who are residents in institutions under the control of a pub…

(a) (1) Acts 1991, No. 1034, authorizes the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System to provide a loan to the Department of Education, now known as the “Division of Elementary and Secondary Education”, for a statewide computer system capable of linking all publ…

The General Assembly finds that the State of Arkansas has provided the encouragement and the financial means to build a foundation for an information technology network linking local school districts and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. The General Assembly fur…

The Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office shall keep for the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education a map showing the school districts with their boundaries.

(a) (1) As used in this section:(A) “Arkansas Public School Computer Network” or “APSCN” means the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education's computer network system for public school district reporting of financial management data and student management data to the Divisio…

(a) (1) Each school district shall make the following information and data easily identified on its website or the website of the school district's education service cooperative, if the education service cooperative maintains the school district's website:(A) Current comprehensiv…

(a) The State Board of Education and the Career Education and Workforce Development Board shall promulgate their rules as provided under the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq. (b) The scope of the financial impact statement shall be as provided under the A…

(a) (1) The Director of the Division of Career and Technical Education, or a disbursing agent designated by him or her and approved by the State Board of Education, shall give bond to the State of Arkansas as provided by law for other disbursing agents conditioned for the faithfu…

The State Board of Education shall keep in the office of the Director of the Division of Career and Technical Education a complete record of the minutes of its meetings and other proceedings.

The State Board of Education shall have general supervision of vocational education in the state and shall administer and apportion any funds that come to the state for that purpose.

(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt a seal, and the seal shall be used by the Director of the Division of Career and Technical Education to authenticate documents or copies of documents as the state board or director considers advisable. (b) Copies of any papers or docum…

(a) (1) The General Assembly accepts all federal aid to education that may be provided by the United States Congress.(2) The Division of Career and Technical Education is designated as the state educational authority to represent the state in the administration of funds provided …

The Division of Career and Technical Education is designated to receive and administer any federal funds made available to this state to assist local school districts in providing elementary and secondary school facilities for vocational and adult education programs.

The State Board of Education may make plans and rules as are necessary in order for this state to meet the requirements of any law enacted by the United States Congress for vocational-technical education or any supplementary federal regulations pertaining to that legislation.

(a) (1) A multiagency task force, staffed and supported by the Division of Career and Technical Education, is established and shall consist of five (5) members, including:(A) The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education or his or her designee;(B) The Director of the Div…

(a) As used in this section, “school district with a high dropout rate” means an Arkansas school district:(1) That has the most statistically significant rate of dropouts;(2) From which students may enroll in a regional community alternative learning environment center; and(3) Th…

(a) (1) As funding is available, the Department of Education may provide transportation funding aid to school districts that transport students to a regional community alternative learning environment center that serves three (3) or more contiguous counties in which the most rece…