Title 6 — Education

(1) A public school district and an educational service cooperative shall not:(1) Require or coerce an individual employed by the public school district or educational service cooperative to meet, communicate, listen to, or otherwise interact with an employee organization or a pr…

(1) It is the intention of the General Assembly through this subchapter to:(1) Stimulate local innovation and creativity in restructuring Arkansas public schools;(2) Facilitate the empowerment of educators and other persons at the local building site level to identify the needs o…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Classified employee” means any person for whom licensure is not required as the basis of employment in the public schools of the state;(2) “Licensed employee” means any person for whom licensure is required as the basis of employment in the pub…

(a) Following a secret ballot vote by two-thirds (⅔) of the licensed employees in a local building site to implement site-based decision making, the local school district board of directors may adopt a policy for implementing site-based decision making in the school district, to …

(1) The school district policy adopted by the board of directors and licensed faculty of a local school district shall require the following when any local school building site elects to implement site-based decision making under the provisions of this subchapter:(1) (A) (i) A sc…

(1) The policy adopted by the local school district board of directors to implement site-based decision making shall also address the following:(1) Parent, citizen, and community participation, including the relationship of the school council with other groups;(2) Cooperation and…

(1) The school council established under this subchapter may implement policies in the following areas:(1) Planning and resolution of issues regarding instructional practices;(2) Selection and implementation of discipline and classroom management techniques, including responsibil…

The local board may grant to the school council other authority as authorized by law.

(a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education may develop sample guidelines to assist local boards of directors in the development of their policies. (b) The division may provide professional development activities to assist schools in implementing site-based decision ma…

(a) A local school building site that chooses to have site-based decision making but wishes to be exempt from the administrative structure set forth by this subchapter may develop a model for implementing site-based decision making, including, but not limited to, a description of…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Affected district” means a school district that:(A) Loses territory or students as a result of annexation; or(B) Is involved in a consolidation;(2) “Aggrieved district” means the lawfully constituted and existing board of directors of a school …

There shall not be any consolidation or annexation of any public school district with any other school district in the state without the prior consent and approval of the State Board of Education.

(a) The State Board of Education shall consider the annexation of an affected district or districts to a receiving district or districts under the following conditions:(1) The state board, after providing thirty (30) days' written notice to the affected school districts, determin…

(a) The State Board of Education shall consider the consolidation of affected districts into a new resulting district or districts under the following conditions:(1) The state board, after providing thirty (30) days' written notice to the affected districts, determines consolidat…

(a) Any receiving district or resulting district created under this subchapter shall become the successor in interest to the property of the school district dissolved, shall become liable for the contracts and debts of such a school district, and may sue and be sued therefor. (b)…

(a) The State Board of Education shall not order any annexation or consolidation under this subchapter or any other act or any combination of acts which hampers, delays, or in any manner negatively affects the desegregation efforts of a school district or districts in this state.…

(a) The State Board of Education shall have the following duties regarding consolidations and annexations:(1) To form local school districts, change boundary lines of school districts, dissolve school districts and annex the territory of those school districts to another school d…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the decision of the State Board of Education regarding a consolidation or annexation shall be final with no further right of appeal except that only an aggrieved district may appeal to Pulaski County Circuit Court pursuant to the Arkans…

(a) Unless otherwise approved by a unanimous vote of the board of directors of the resulting district, the fund balances of any school district that is consolidated, annexed, or otherwise reorganized shall be used by the resulting district solely for the construction of facilitie…

(a) (1) The State Board of Education shall consider a petition from a local board of directors of any school district seeking an adjustment or change of boundary lines between its school district and an adjoining school district.(2) The local board of directors must file the peti…

(a) This section applies to the involuntary consolidation or involuntary annexation of a school district made by a motion of the State Board of Education. (b) The effective date of an involuntary consolidation or involuntary annexation of a school district shall be the July 1 aft…

(a) This section applies to any petition for consolidation or annexation of a school district submitted to the State Board of Education by a school district. (b) The effective date of a petition for consolidation or annexation of a school district shall be the July 1 after the st…

(a) (1) A permanent board of directors shall have either five (5) or seven (7) members unless the school district is allowed to have nine (9) members under § 6-13-634.(2) The length of the terms of the board of directors may be for the time period prescribed by law and:(A) Prescr…

An appropriation for consolidation incentive shall be allocated to a resulting district or a receiving district, respectively, according to rules promulgated by the State Board of Education.

(a) An incorporated town or a city of the second class and the parents of, legal guardians of, and persons standing in loco parentis to students within an affected district may file a written appeal with a receiving district board of directors for the establishment of a local pub…

(a) (1) It is the intent of the General Assembly by this subchapter to provide opportunities for children of this state by allowing local community members the opportunity to establish and maintain public schools in a manner that optimizes educational resources within a community…

(a) A new school district may not be created in an area with fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) students in average daily membership. (b) An existing school district shall not be reduced by means of detachment to an area with fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500)…

(1) Creation of a new school district by detachment shall be initiated by:(1) Resolution of the board of directors of each school district from which territory is to be detached; or(2) A petition that is presented to the State Board of Education pursuant to the provisions of this…

(a) (1) Not later than the thirtieth day after the date the State Board of Education receives a petition or resolution under this subchapter, the state board shall hold a hearing on the validity of the petition or resolution.(2) To be valid, a petition or resolution shall:(A) Sta…

(a) If all the requirements of this subchapter are met and a majority of the votes are cast for the proposition, the State Board of Education shall order the creation of the new school district. (b) (1) At the time the order creating the district is made, the state board shall ap…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Administrative annexation” means the joining of an affected district or a part of the school district with a receiving district;(2) “Administrative consolidation” means the joining of two (2) or more school districts to create a new single scho…

A.C.A. § 6-13-1602Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) (1) A school district with fewer than three hundred fifty (350) students according to the school district average daily membership in the school year immediately preceding the current school year may voluntarily agree to administratively consolidate with or be annexed to anot…

A.C.A. § 6-13-1604Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

A.C.A. § 6-13-1605Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

A.C.A. § 6-13-1606Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(1) Following the annexations or consolidations under §§ 6-13-1601 — 6-13-1603 effective before December 1, 2004, and before any consolidation, annexation, detachment, approval of a conversion charter, or any other type of reclassification or reorganization of a school district a…

(a) Arkansas Legislative Audit shall conduct a comprehensive financial review of all the school district's financial matters for any school that is involved in administrative consolidation or administrative annexation or is otherwise reorganized by the State Board of Education. (…

Following the administrative consolidations or administrative annexations under §§ 6-13-1601 — 6-13-1603, 6-13-1604 [repealed], and 6-13-1605 [repealed] effective before December 1, 2004, and before any consolidation, annexation, detachment, approval of a conversion charter, or a…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Accounts payable” means a debt owed by a school district on June 30 immediately before administrative consolidation, excluding bonded indebtedness or other long-term debt;(2) “Available funding” means funds that are available to a school district …

(a) By October 1 of each year, the resulting district or receiving district of any school district that was administratively consolidated or administratively annexed under §§ 6-13-1601 — 6-13-1603 shall file a written report with the House Committee on Education, the Senate Commi…

(a) The purpose of this section is to:(1) Prevent students who attend administratively consolidated or administratively annexed schools from returning home to communities with little or no opportunities for supplemental academic support;(2) Increase opportunities for access to li…

(a) (1) A school district with fewer than three hundred fifty (350) students according to the school district average daily membership in the school year immediately preceding the current school year may annually request a waiver from the average daily membership requirement of t…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Executive head” means a superintendent of a public school district or the head of an open-enrollment public charter school;(2) “Institution” means property that is owned and operated by a public school district or an open-enrollment public char…

(a) (1) This subchapter applies to all property that is owned or under the control of an institution.(2) However, this subchapter shall not interfere with the ownership or control that is vested in the board of directors of each institution regarding its property. (1) This subcha…

(a) (1) An executive head of an institution may designate and appoint at least one (1) of the employees of the institution as an institutional law enforcement officer.(2) An employee appointed as an institutional law enforcement officer under subdivision (a)(1) of this section sh…

(a) An institutional law enforcement officer appointed under this subchapter, except to the extent limited by the executive head who appointed the institutional law enforcement officer, shall:(1) Protect property;(2) Preserve and maintain proper order and decorum;(3) Address and …

An institutional law enforcement officer appointed under this subchapter is not personally liable for injuries to individuals or damages to property while the institutional law enforcement officer is acting within the scope of his or her authority as authorized by this subchapter…

(a) A prosecuting attorney or city attorney with jurisdiction shall appear and prosecute all actions that arise in a court under this subchapter. (b) All fines collected by a court under this subchapter shall be paid into the same fund as are fines levied for the same or similar …

(a) An institution may promulgate rules for the operation and parking of motor vehicles on the property of the institution, including without limitation rules regarding the:(1) (A) Rate of speed.(B) Speed limits shall be posted at reasonable intervals;(2) (A) Assignment and desig…