Title 6 — Education

(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…

A.C.A. § 6-20-605Current 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. § 6-20-606Current 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) 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…

(a) (1) Each such loan that is to be amortized or paid in full, both principal and interest, within or at the end of ten (10) years from the date of its approval by the State Board of Education shall be evidenced by the school district's obligations that shall be designated and k…

(a) For the purpose of fully securing revolving loan bonds or revolving loan certificates of indebtedness, the issuing school district may pledge any one (1) or more of the following, as shall be determined by the State Board of Education, as a condition precedent to the making o…

(a) (1) In each instance in which a loan from the Revolving Loan Fund is to be secured in whole or in part from the proceeds of taxes to be collected from a continuing ad valorem tax levy to be approved by a majority of the qualified electors of the district voting on the proposi…

(a) In each instance in which a loan from the Revolving Loan Fund is to be secured in whole by funds derived from sources other than from a specifically voted continuing ad valorem tax levy on the taxable real and personal property within the bounds of the school district, the bo…

(a) Whenever all of the conditions required by this law have been met, the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education shall execute a certificate on each revolving loan bond or revolving loan certificate of indebtedness to the effect that the bond or certificate, and the …

(a) All such obligations shall be delivered to the State Board of Education, and coincident therewith the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education shall cause a state warrant to be drawn upon the Revolving Loan Fund or the Revolving Certificate Proceeds Account, payable…

(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, all interest received on securities held in the Revolving Loan Fund shall be deposited into the State Treasury and credited to the Permanent School Revolving Loan Fund. (b) In the event of the sale of any school dis…

Principal and interest maturities of obligations issued under the provisions of this subchapter shall be a charge against the revenues of the school district for the fiscal year in which the maturities are respectively due.

(a) In the event of a default or threatened default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any revolving loan bonds or revolving loan certificates of indebtedness, the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education is authorized and directed to withhold from the ap…

(a) In order that the Revolving Loan Program may be kept on a sound financial basis, school districts having heretofore issued revolving loan bonds or revolving loan certificates of indebtedness are authorized to issue refunding bonds, in the case of revolving loan bonds, and ref…

(a) No fees of any nature, fiscal agent's, legal, or otherwise, shall be paid either directly or indirectly for any service performed with respect to any loan made under the provisions of this subchapter. (b) Any person who shall give or receive any such fee, or any person who sh…

All outstanding loans evidenced by revolving loan bonds and certificates of indebtedness made under the provisions of the laws or parts of laws repealed by this subchapter are validated, ratified, and confirmed; such evidences of debt are, respectively, found and declared to be t…

(a) Subject to the conditions and limitations of this section, any education service cooperative established under The Education Service Cooperative Act of 1985, § 6-13-1001 et seq., may borrow, and the State Board of Education may lend, moneys in the Revolving Loan Fund. (b) The…

(a) This subchapter shall be construed liberally. (b) In this regard, it is determined and declared that this subchapter is the sole authority necessary for the performance of the acts authorized including, without limitation, the issuance of the certificates. (c) There is confer…

(a) In order to obtain funds needed for the proper operation of its Revolving Loan Program, the State Board of Education is authorized to issue from time to time certificates of indebtedness. (b) The aggregate principal amount of all certificates outstanding at one time may not e…

(a) The certificates shall be executed by the manual signatures of the Chair of the State Board of Education and the Secretary of the State Board of Education. (b) In case any of the officers whose signatures appear on the certificates shall cease to be that officer before the de…

(a) The certificates shall be obligations of the State Board of Education only, secured by a pledge of the collateral and payable from the proceeds realized from the collateral, as specified in § 6-20-905. (b) The certificates shall not be obligations of the State of Arkansas and…

(a) The State Board of Education shall purchase out of the Revolving Certificate Proceeds Account and shall set aside as collateral revolving loan bonds of school districts that bear the same or greater rates of interest and, in the aggregate, equal the principal amount of the ce…

(a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, hereinafter called the “Teacher Retirement Board”, is authorized to purchase certificates issued under this subchapter. (b) Payment may be effected in the State Treasury by charging the Teacher Retirement Fund w…

(a) The State Board of Education must receive no less than par and accrued interest for the certificates, which are called “proceeds”. (b) The proceeds shall not be deposited into the Revolving Loan Fund and the certificates shall not be considered obligations owned by the state …