Title 6, Education

(a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall plan for the statewide implementation of distance learning in elementary and secondary public schools in the state. (b) (1) The elementary or secondary school may utilize courses from outside the state if the out-of-sta…

The Division of Higher Education shall coordinate the implementation of distance learning at the state's public institutions of higher education.

The Division of Career and Technical Education shall cooperate with the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Division of Higher Education to implement distance learning throughout the state.

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Distance Learning Development Project Act of 2003”.

(a) The purpose of this subchapter is to provide for the establishment, organization, and administration of a distance learning program designed to improve course offerings available to students throughout the state. (b) The program will demonstrate the efficiency of using distan…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Board” means the State Board of Education;(2) “Distance learning” means an interactive telecommunications system that utilizes information technology, audio, video, and similar technological elements, is compatible with other distance learning …

(a) There is established the Arkansas Distance Learning Development Program, which shall be conducted by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and administered through the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education. (b) The program shall have four (4) focus a…

The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules necessary for the implementation of this subchapter.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a public school district or open-enrollment public charter school may offer and teach distance learning courses to a student enrolled in a private school or a home school if:(1) The student resides in the public school dis…

(a) It is the purpose of this subchapter to make available distance learning in every school district in the state. (b) The primary purpose of providing distance learning technologies is to assist school districts in receiving advanced high school courses, advanced placement cour…

(a) (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall develop grant standards and provide grants to education service cooperatives for acquiring equipment and receiving telecommunications services necessary for each school district to have distance learning availabilit…

School districts shall form collaborative efforts with other schools or education service cooperatives or both other schools and education service cooperatives that share common educational needs in order to ensure that the state maximizes distance learning services by distributi…

A teacher who is under contract in a school district in the respective field of study that is being offered by distance learning pursuant to this subchapter shall not be terminated by the school district because of the availability of distance learning courses.