Title 6 — Education

62 chapters · 2,849 sections in this title.

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Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-202 Accreditation — Development of rules, criteria, and standards
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(a) (1) The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to develop comprehensive rules, criteria, and standards to be used by the state board and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education in the accreditation of school programs in elementary and secondary public …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-203 Notification of failure to meet standards for accreditation — Appeal
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(a) (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education annually shall notify all schools or school districts failing to meet the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts for elementary and secondary schools not later than May 1 of each year …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-204 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-15-204Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-205 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-15-205Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-206 Subsequent failure to meet standards for accreditation
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(a) Any school or school district which fails to meet current standards for accreditation as determined by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall be classified as probationary. (b) (1) Notice thereof shall be filed with the school district in which the school is…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-207 Enforcement of standards
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(a) The State Board of Education may take any number of the actions listed in subsection (c) of this section to address a school or school district failure to meet standards for accreditation any time after a school or school district has received notice of being placed on probat…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-208 Publication and dissemination
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(1) When any school of a school district or the school district is determined by the State Board of Education to be on probationary status for failure to meet the standards for accreditation, that school district after exhausting its rights to appeal shall:(1) Publish the probati…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-209 Rules
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(1) The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules as necessary to set forth the:(1) Process for identifying and addressing a school or school district that is failing to meet the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts;(2) Process and mea…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-210 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-15-210Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2101 School rating system — Annual reports
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(a) (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall prepare annual reports of the results of the statewide assessment program that describe student achievement in each school district and each school in the state and the school performance category levels under § 6-1…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2102 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-15-2102Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2103 School rating system — School annual performance category levels
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The annual report shall identify schools as being in one (1) school performance category level defined according to rules of the State Board of Education.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2104 Mobility
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The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall study the effects of mobility on the performance of highly mobile students and recommend programs to improve the performance of such students.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2105 School rating system — School ratings and performance category level measurement — Publication
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(a) School performance category level ratings shall apply to each school's achievement for the year in which the achievement is measured. (b) (1) Each school's rating shall be published annually by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and by the school district and …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2106 School rating system — Rules
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(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules necessary to implement this subchapter pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq. (b) The state board may, by rules adopted under the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., and…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2107 Arkansas School Recognition Program
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(a) The General Assembly finds that there is a need for an incentive program for outstanding schools. The General Assembly further finds that performance-based incentives are commonplace in the private sector and should be infused into the public sector as a reward for productivi…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2108 School rating system
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(a) The school rating system shall be a multiple-measures approach that shall include without limitation:(1) Academic achievement on the annual statewide student assessment;(2) Student growth on the annual statewide student assessment; and(3) (A) School-level graduation rate or r…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-211 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-15-211Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-212 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-15-212Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-213 Course considered as taught under certain circumstances
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(1) A course shall be considered as taught by a school district in compliance with the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts if:(1) A course required to be taught by a school district under the State Board of Education's Standards for Accredi…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-214 Accelerated learning course counted as core curriculum course taught
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(a) The purpose of this section is to assist small, rural public schools in providing students access to the most rigorous courses available if it is the desire of students to take accelerated learning courses in the place of regular courses and, in doing so, to meet the requirem…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-215 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-15-215Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-216 Flexibility in awarding course credit
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(a) (1) Beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, a public school district may submit a plan for approval to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education to award units of high school course credit based on a demonstration of subject matter competency instead of, or in combin…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2201 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 6-15-2201Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2202 Access to public school information on school improvement plans
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(a) This section is intended to:(1) Improve student achievement and close achievement gaps among student subgroups by providing public access to school-level improvement plans;(2) Improve parental involvement and communication with parents;(3) Increase transparency and accountabi…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2301 Best financial management practices for school districts — Standards — Reviews — Designation of school districts
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(a) (1) The purpose of the best financial management practices reviews is to improve Arkansas school district management's use of resources and to identify cost savings.(2) (A) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and Arkansas Legislative Audit are directed to devel…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2302 General business manager — Definition
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(a) As used in this section, “general business manager” means a chief financial officer or business manager, however the position is titled, who:(1) Is an employee of the public school district or is contracted to perform financial services;(2) Is responsible for the fiscal opera…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2401 Review of Arkansas Placement Status Reports — Reports of students needing remediation
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(a) (a) Representatives from the Division of Higher Education and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall meet with the respective chairs of the Senate Committee on Education and the House Committee on Education, or their designees, along with the selected superi…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2501 Office of Education Renewal Zones — Creation
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(a) There is created the Office of Education Renewal Zones. (b) The office shall be under the supervision of the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education. (c) (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall select an individual to serve as the Director of the O…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2502 Establishment of education renewal zones — Purpose — Organization
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(a) A public school, an education service cooperative, or an institution of higher education is authorized to enter into one (1) or more interlocal agreements through which they collaborate to improve public school performance and academic achievement. (b) Each interlocal agreeme…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2503 Inclusion of schools within designated education renewal zone
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(a) (1) The Office of Education Renewal Zones, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the local school districts shall exercise due diligence to assure, to the extent that funds are available, that each school identified as a school in need of the specialized sup…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2504 School-level improvement plan implementation
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(a) Each school participating in an education renewal zone shall include in its school-level improvement plan required in § 6-15-2914 the following:(1) Goals for improving student achievement;(2) Measurable benchmarks for achieving student improvement goals;(3) A timeline for rea…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2505 Annual report
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(a) Each education renewal zone, using guidelines and indicators set by the Office of Education Renewal Zones, shall prepare an annual report to the office describing the progress toward accomplishing the goals of the education renewal zone. (b) The office shall prepare an annual…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2506 Subchapter contingent on funding for education renewal zone program
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The provisions of this subchapter shall be contingent on the appropriation and availability of funding for the education renewal zone program.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2601 Title
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This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program Act of 2007”.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2602 Legislative intent
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(1) It is the intent of the General Assembly to provide a pilot program affording public school districts and public charter schools the opportunity to develop teacher compensation plans tailored to the public school district's or public charter school's needs to accomplish the f…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2603 Definitions
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(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) (A) “Knowledge and skill base portion of compensation” means that portion of a teacher's compensation under a Rewarding Excellence in Achievement plan that considers, but is not limited to, input factors such as years of experience and degree le…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2604 Rules
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The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to establish rules for the Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program consistent with this subchapter.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2605 Application forms and procedures for Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program
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(a) (1) (A) A public school district or public charter school desiring to participate in the Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program shall submit an application to the State Board of Education.(B) A public school district may apply on behalf of a single school within the publ…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2606 Contents of Rewarding Excellence in Achievement plans
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(a) A Rewarding Excellence in Achievement plan approved for participation in the Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program shall describe how:(1) Teachers can achieve career advancement and additional compensation;(2) The public school district or public charter school will pro…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2607 Staff development
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(a) Staff development activities for a public school district or public charter school participating in the Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program shall:(1) Focus on the school classroom and research-based strategies that improve student learning;(2) Provide opportunities fo…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2608 Evaluation of participants
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(a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall commission an annual evaluation of the Rewarding Excellence in Achievement plan of each public school district and public charter school participating in the Rewarding Excellence in Achievement Program. (b) An annual ev…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2609 Reporting and continued funding
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(a) (1) In addition to the program evaluation required by § 6-15-2608, each participating school district or public charter school shall report on the implementation and effectiveness of its Rewarding Excellence in Achievement plan and make recommendations by August 15 each year …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2610 Construction with other state law
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To the extent that the provisions of this subchapter or the terms of an approved Rewarding Excellence in Achievement plan directly conflict with any provision of § 6-17-201 et seq. or the provisions of any other state law relating to the compensation of public school teachers, th…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2701 Closing achievement gap program — Definition
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(a) As used in this section, “school in need of support” means a public school identified as in need of comprehensive support and improvement, additional targeted support, or targeted support and improvement under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Pub. L. No. 89-10, as …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2901 Title
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This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Educational Support and Accountability Act”.
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2902 Legislative findings
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(1) The General Assembly finds that:(1) Arkansas Constitution, Article 14, § 1, requires the State of Arkansas to provide a general, suitable, and efficient system of free public schools to the children of the state;(2) Under the decision of the Supreme Court in Lake View School …
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2903 Definitions
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(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Academic growth” means the calculation of a student's academic progress from one school year to the next, as measured by assessments and other criteria required by rule of the State Board of Education;(2) “College and career readiness assessmen…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2904 Responsibility of Division of Elementary and Secondary Education
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(1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall develop and implement a comprehensive accountability system for Arkansas public schools and school districts that:(1) Establishes clear academic standards that are periodically reviewed and revised;(2) Maintains a state…
Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2905 Authority of State Board of Education
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(1) The State Board of Education shall:(1) Approve:(A) Academic standards for each content area; and(B) A statewide student assessment system, including without limitation performance levels for statewide assessments;(2) Promulgate rules to implement the comprehensive accountabil…