Title 6, Education

(a) (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall determine and prepare a list of the skills and knowledge that a child should have in order to be prepared to enter kindergarten.(2) The list shall be prepared in a manner that will assist parents in preparing their …

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Multiple birth sibling” means a twin, triplet, quadruplet, or other sibling resulting from a multiple birth; and(2) “Parent” means the parent, legal guardian, or other person having custody or charge of a student enrolled in a public school. (1) “…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Nonresident district” means a school district other than a student's resident district; and(2) “Resident district” means the school district where the student resides as determined under § 6-18-202. (1) “Nonresident district” means a school distri…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Covered information” means personally identifiable information or materials regarding a public school student in this state, in any media or format, when the information is:(A) Created or provided by a student or the student's parent or guardian t…

(a) Each of the following persons shall notify law enforcement if he or she has a good faith belief that there is a serious and imminent threat to the public based on a threat made by an individual regarding violence in or targeted at a school that has been communicated to the pe…

The General Assembly hereby finds that the door-to-door selling of fund-raising merchandise by elementary school children should be conducted with adult supervision. Accordingly, it is the intent of the General Assembly by this subchapter to further ensure the well-being of publi…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Adult” means a person age sixteen (16) years of age or older and approved by the parent;(2) “Door-to-door sales” means the selling of merchandise outside of the child's home and off the school grounds;(3) “Elementary school student” means a chi…

(a) Failure by a district school to comply with the provisions of this subchapter shall result in a ban on all fund-raising activities by the school for one (1) school year. (b) Failure by a fund-raising company to comply with the provisions of this subchapter shall result in a b…

(a) Schools must provide written notification of the following to parents of all elementary school students who participate in fundraising programs:(1) Student participation in fundraising programs is voluntary;(2) Students who do not participate will not forfeit any school privi…

(a) (1) The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Psychiatric Research Institute shall establish and operate a pilot program that creates a school safety and crisis line to be known as “ARSafeSchools” that can be accessed by the following means, including without limitation…

(a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a miscellaneous fund to be known as the “ARSafeSchools Fund”. (b) The fund shall consist of:(1) Moneys obtained from private grants or other sources that a…

(a) Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, if a public school or an open-enrollment public charter school issues identification cards or identification badges to enrolled public school students in grades six through twelve (6-12), the identification card or identification badg…

(a) Subject to requirements established under subsection (b) of this section, a public school that operates primarily as a virtual school may administer a statewide student assessment to a student enrolled in the public school in a virtual setting that best meets the educational …

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Right to Play Act”. (b) The General Assembly finds and declares that:(1) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that “[r]egular physical activity can help children and adolescents improve cardiorespiratory fit…

(a) A student who transfers to a nonpublic school and is enrolled in the nonpublic school by June 1 of the school year for which the transfer student will be enrolled in grade seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), or ten (10) shall be immediately eligible to participate in an extracurr…

This subchapter shall be known and cited as the “Arkansas Student Publications Act”.

Each school district board of directors shall adopt rules in the form of a written student media policy developed in conjunction with the student media advisors and the appropriate school administrators, consistent with the other provisions of this subchapter, which shall include…

(a) Student media policies shall recognize that students may exercise their right of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. (b) (1) This right includes expression in school-sponsored media, whether such student media are supported financia…

(1) Student publications policies shall recognize that truth, fairness, accuracy, and responsibility are essential to the practice of journalism, and that the following types of student media by student journalists are not authorized:(1) Student media that are obscene as to minor…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Student journalist” means a student who gathers, writes, edits, photographs, records, videotapes, or prepares information for dissemination in student media;(2) (A) “Student media” means any means of communication that are:(i) Prepared, substan…

This subchapter shall be known as the “Parental Authorization of Questionnaires Act”.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Personal identifying information” means:(A) A student's name;(B) The name of a student's parent or a member of the student's family;(C) The address, telephone number, or email address of a student or a member of the student's family;(D) A perso…

(a) A public school or public school district shall not administer or permit to be administered a questionnaire or survey that requests or requires a student to supply any personal identifying information unless written permission is obtained from the student's parent or legal gu…

(a) (1) (A) (i) All children in prekindergarten (preK), kindergarten (K), grades one (1), two (2), four (4), six (6), and eight (8) and all transfer students shall receive an eye and vision screening.(ii) This requirement applies to public schools and public charter schools.(B) (…

(a) (1) A child who does not pass the eye and vision screening tests, except for the color perception test, shall be required to have a comprehensive eye and vision examination conducted by an optometrist or ophthalmologist within sixty (60) days of receipt of the vision screenin…

(a) (1) Standardized forms for eye and vision screening reports shall be developed by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and adopted by the division in rules promulgated under the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.(2) The division may coord…

The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education may coordinate with The Arkansas Optometric Association, Inc., and shall adopt rules that establish standards for training school nurses to perform eye and vision screenings.

Each school district is encouraged to select one (1) or more optometrists or ophthalmologists to serve as nonpaid eye and vision care consultants to provide advice and assistance with eye and vision screenings and examinations.

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Universal Assessment Program Act”.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) (A) “Assessment” means a test of student educational development that measures student readiness for future learning and that may be used by institutions of higher education as part of their admissions, placement, and scholarship processes and b…

There is created in the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education the Universal Assessment Program to be developed, implemented, and administered by the division as provided in this subchapter.

(1) The purpose of the Universal Assessment Program is to:(1) Improve the college readiness of all students in grade eleven (11);(2) Prevent or minimize the continued remediation of nearly fifty percent (50%) of all students entering Arkansas institutions of higher education in o…

(a) Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, the Universal Assessment Program may provide each student in grades nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11), or twelve (12) with the opportunity to take an assessment while in grades nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11), or twelve (12) by using fu…

The Division of Higher Education and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall develop rules for the administration of this subchapter.

(1) The Division of Higher Education and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall submit a combined annual report to the Legislative Council by December 1 of each year that:(1) Establishes compliance with this subchapter;(2) Provides data on the number of particip…

This subchapter shall be known as the “International Student Exchange Visitor Placement Organization Registration Act”.

(1) The General Assembly finds that:(1) Many international student exchange visitor placement organizations have been established to provide students from other countries the opportunity to share their histories, languages, and cultures with their counterparts in this state;(2) I…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “International student exchange visitor placement organization” or “organization” means a person, partnership, corporation, or other entity that regularly arranges the placement of international student exchange visitors for the purpose, in whol…

An international student exchange visitor placement organization shall not place a foreign exchange student with a host family or in a public or private school in this state without complying with this subchapter.

The Secretary of State shall adopt necessary rules concerning the registration of international student exchange visitor placement organizations for the implementation of this subchapter.

(a) (1) (A) Beginning January 1, 2010, for the 2010-2011 school year, an international student exchange visitor placement organization that proposes to place a foreign exchange student in a public or private school in this state shall submit an application for a certificate of re…

(1) International student exchange visitor placement organizations that provide services to place students in this state shall provide before arrival to each student, host family, and school principal of the school in which the student is being placed an informational document in…

A placement organization that fails to register as required by this subchapter or that submits false or incorrect information to the Secretary of State in filing statements required by this subchapter, whether or not the statement or report is verified, shall be prohibited from p…

(a) The General Assembly recognizes:(1) The importance of adequate eye and vision care for school-age children as an important component to maximizing their educational opportunities and classroom performance; and(2) The need for a study to be conducted to evaluate eye and vision…

(a) This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Public School Choice Act of 2015”. (b) The General Assembly finds that:(1) The students in Arkansas's public schools and their parents will become more informed about and involved in the public educational system if stud…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Nonresident district” means a school district other than a student's resident district;(2) “Parent” means a student's parent, guardian, or other person having custody or care of the student;(3) “Resident district” means the school district in w…