Title 6, Education

A case involving the validity of this subchapter or involving the bonds issued under this subchapter shall be deemed of public interest and shall be advanced by all courts and heard as a preferred cause, and all appeals from judgments or decrees rendered in such cases shall be ta…

(a) This subchapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes. This subchapter shall constitute the sole authority necessary to accomplish the purposes of this subchapter, and to this end it shall not be necessary that the provisions of other laws pertaining to the …

No bonds shall be issued under this subchapter before July 1, 2009.

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Transportation Modernization Grant Program”.

(1) There is established the Transportation Modernization Grant Program for:(1) Public school districts;(2) Open-enrollment public charter schools;(3) Early childhood care and education programs or their local early childhood coordinators; and(4) Cities, towns, or other entities …

(a) The Department of Education shall:(1) Develop a modernization grant application and application procedures for the Transportation Modernization Grant Program, including defining which public school districts are rural and remote, that require a grant applicant to explain how …

(1) The Transportation Modernization Grant Program grants shall be used for the following purposes without limitation:(1) Transportation resource sharing with neighboring public school districts or open-enrollment public charter schools;(2) Developing or contracting with rideshar…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Current indebtedness” means a debt obligation incurred by a school district for the purpose of paying maintenance or general operation expenses for the fiscal year in which the debt is incurred or for a purpose for which a postdated warrant, in…

(a) (1) (A) The amount of obligations incurred by a school district for any school fiscal year shall not be in excess of the revenue receipts of the district for that year except as provided in this section and in § 6-20-801 et seq. (B) A school district or public charter school …

The school district board of directors is authorized to draw warrants on the county treasurer when the county treasurer serves as treasurer of the school district for all funds to be disbursed by it, such warrants to be countersigned by the agent authorized under § 6-17-918, as c…

(a) All maturities of principal and interest of school bonds shall be paid by issuing warrants against the funds authorized by law for paying bonded indebtedness. (b) A description of the bonded debt that is being paid shall be written on the face of each warrant issued for this …

(a) As used in this section:(1) (A) “Energy savings contract” means a contract for the implementation of one (1) or more energy conservation measures as defined in § 6-20-401 and shall include an investment grade preinstallation energy audit and analysis.(B) The contract may prov…

(a) In order to simplify and expedite fiscal affairs of school districts relating to the payment of miscellaneous items of expenditures incident to their operation, any school district is authorized to create a fund for each school within a district to be known as the “petty cash…

The school fiscal year for Arkansas shall consist of the twelve-month period beginning July 1 and ending on the following June 30.

(a) (1) The public school districts of this state are authorized to accept interest-free loans from agencies of the United States Government if incurring the indebtedness is approved by the State Board of Education.(2) The state board shall not grant its approval unless it is sat…

(a) A school district in this state may pay licensed personnel a nonrecurring salary payment from revenues not considered to be recurring sources of revenue. (b) A nonrecurring salary payment under this section shall not increase the base salary of the recipient for purposes of c…

(a) As used in this section, “public-public partnership” means a project delivery method in which a school district may enter into a contract to partner with another governmental agency, political subdivision, or institution of higher education to meet a clearly defined need for …

(a) (1) As used in this section, “net athletic event gate receipts” means the amount remaining from fees, including charges for reserved seating, collected for admission to a school district athletic event less any expenses, including any rental fee or any leasing cost for a faci…

(1) The General Assembly recognizes that:(1) Under present laws and practices, school students of this state may, for various reasons and purposes, be transferred or assigned to attend school in another district;(2) In many such instances, the respective school districts involved…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) (A) “Child living in a foster home” means a school-age child in this state who is in the custody of the Department of Human Services and placed in a licensed or approved foster home, shelter, or facility, or an exempt child welfare agency as def…

The State Board of Education shall adopt reasonable rules for the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this subchapter and for the carrying out of the purposes and intent of this subchapter that reasonable procedures be established to assure that funds provided for…

(a) A school district shall ensure the continuity of educational services for a child living in a foster home so that the child:(1) Can remain in his or her school of origin in the state, if it is in the child's best interest;(2) Is moved to a new school in this state in a timely…

(a) Whenever any child with disabilities attends or seeks to attend a school district other than the school district in which the child's lawful parents, guardian, or other person in loco parentis to the child resides, the receiving district may make application to the sending di…

(a) Within thirty (30) days after receiving a request for payment from the receiving district, the school district board of directors of the district to which the request is made shall review and either:(1) Approve the request and make payment in behalf of the education of the ch…

(a) (1) Upon receipt of the written response, the requesting district in which the child is in attendance may, if the request is rejected, make application to the State Board of Education for a hearing officer to be designated to hold a hearing in regard to the request and to rep…

(a) (1) If a hearing by the State Board of Education is requested in writing by either or both of the affected school districts or any party to the action, at least ten (10) days before the next regular state board meeting, the state board shall schedule a hearing in regard there…

If the ruling of the State Board of Education provides for payment to be made by the sending district in behalf of the education of the child in the receiving district and if the sending district refuses to make payments in the amount approved by the state board, then, upon certi…

All files and records that are required by the laws of this state or under the provisions of applicable federal laws or regulations to be kept confidential and all court orders pertaining to the confidentiality of records or prohibiting or limiting the disclosure thereof pertaini…

(a) As used in this section, “isolated school district” means a school district that meets any four (4) of the following five (5) criteria:(1) There is a distance of twelve (12) miles or more by hard-surfaced highway from the high school of the district to the nearest adjacent hi…

(a) “Isolated school” means a school within a school district that:(1) Before administrative consolidation or annexation under this section, the Public Education Reorganization Act, § 6-13-1601 et seq., and § 6-13-1405(a)(5) [repealed] qualified as an isolated school district und…

(a) Upon the effective date of consolidation, annexation, or reorganization, the following school districts that received isolated funding in the 2003-2004 school year shall become isolated school areas for the sole purpose of receiving isolated funding and shall have a per stude…

(a) The General Assembly finds that school districts that contain isolated schools need additional funding to provide an adequate education for students attending schools in those school districts. (b) A school district shall receive special needs funding under subsection (c), su…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “School” means public tax-supported elementary or high school;(2) “School district” means:(A) A geographic area with an elected board of directors that qualifies as a taxing unit for purposes of school district taxes under § 26-80-101 et seq., w…

(a) The State Board of Education may enter into such agreements with any agency of the United States Government, with any school district, or with any other agency or person and may prescribe such rules, employ such personnel, and take such other action as it may deem necessary t…

(a) The State Board of Education is authorized to accept and direct the disbursement of funds appropriated by any act of the United States Congress and apportioned to the state for use in connection with school lunch programs. (b) The state board shall deposit all such funds rece…

(a) The State Board of Education shall prescribe rules for the keeping of accounts and records and the making of reports by or under the supervision of school districts. (b) These accounts and records shall at all times be available for inspection and audit by authorized official…

(1) The State Board of Education is authorized, to the extent that funds are available for that purpose, and in cooperation with other appropriate agencies and organizations, to:(1) Conduct studies of methods for improving and expanding school lunch programs and promoting nutriti…

The State Board of Education and any school district may accept any gift for use in connection with any school lunch program.

Pursuant to any power of school districts to operate or provide for the operation of school lunch programs in schools under their jurisdiction, school districts may use the funds disbursed to them under the provisions of this subchapter, gifts, and other funds received from sale …

There is authorized to be appropriated from time to time out of money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the State Board of Education to provide for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of school lunch prog…

(a) In addition to following the dietary guidelines of the National School Lunch Program, each school district shall provide to the school district's school nutrition and physical activity advisory committee:(1) Information on the requirements and standards of the National School…

(a) The fund in the State Treasury known as the “Revolving Loan Fund” shall continue, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the State Board of Education, as the lending fund for the Public School Fund. (b) All unencumbered assets, both cash and securities, in the Revolving Loan Fun…

(1) Subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this subchapter, any school district may borrow and the State Board of Education may lend moneys in the Revolving Loan Fund for any of the following purposes:(1) The funding of its legally issued and outstanding postdated…

(a) The maximum amount of money a local school district may borrow from the Revolving Loan Fund shall be five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a school district participating in the Compressed Natural Gas School Bus Pilot Pr…

(a) (1) The board of directors of any school district desiring to borrow money from the Revolving Loan Fund, acting through its chair or president, and secretary, shall file a formal application with the State Board of Education.(2) The application shall contain the following inf…

(a) (1) Within a reasonable time after its receipt, each application shall be examined by the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education as to accuracy with respect to answers contained therein relating to fiscal matters.(2) A statement of the commissioner's findings, tog…