Title 6 — Education

(a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall represent the sole authority to resolve disputes between a student and a school as to grievances relating to:(1) The failure of the school to perform agreements made with the student; or(2) An admissions representative's …

(a) When the Division of Higher Education finds that a school is guilty of a violation of this subchapter or the rules of the division, it shall have the power and authority to impose a penalty on the school. (b) Prior to the imposition of any penalty, the division shall hold an …

(a) The Division of Higher Education shall have the power to issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum in connection with both its investigations and hearings. (b) A subpoena duces tecum may require any book, writing, document, or other paper or thing which is germane to an inves…

(a) (1) Each school licensed under this subchapter shall maintain a surety bond during its licensure.(2) The surety bond shall be submitted to the Division of Higher Education on or before the expiration date of the bond.(3) The bond shall be for the period during which the licen…

A.C.A. § 6-51-621Current 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) A person teaching or instructing a person seventeen (17) years of age or younger to drive a noncommercial motor vehicle or a motorcycle shall offer the minimum amount of driver training to the student driver as prescribed by this section. (b) The minimum requirements for clas…

A person shall not be required to obtain a license from the Division of Higher Education as a requirement for teaching or providing a course in defensive driving under a court-mandated defensive driving class.

(1) This subchapter does not apply to a school or training program that offers only avocational or recreational instruction or teacher instruction for the following subjects:(1) Dance;(2) Music;(3) Yoga;(4) Horseback riding; or(5) Sewing, knitting, or other needlecrafts. (1) Danc…

(a) The Division of Higher Education is hereby authorized to establish for the technical institutes or vocational-technical schools of this state an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Nursing Program. (b) (1) A nursing program shall be established by the division. The nursing…

The licensed practical nurse or licensed psychiatric technician nurse to registered nurse program is an upward-mobility program for licensed practical nurses or licensed psychiatric technician nurses who have completed one (1) calendar year, or two thousand (2,000) hours minimum,…

The Career Education and Workforce Development Board is authorized to grant the degree to students who complete the full course of instruction which entitles them to the degree. The diploma is to be signed by such officials as the board shall designate.

(a) The State Board of Education shall review criteria established by the Career Education and Workforce Development Board that must be met by any secondary vocational center requesting permission to become a community-based education center. (b) (1) The board shall periodically …

The Career Education and Workforce Development Board shall establish policy for community-based education centers in such areas as fees, operating and capital budgets, allocation of funds, instructional programs and related criteria for the operation of community-based education …

(a) Following publication by the Career Education and Workforce Development Board of criteria required to qualify for designation as a community-based education center, local educational agencies may develop a budget proposal for submission to the board for funding consideration.…

(a) (1) The board which currently owns the property and capital equipment of any existing community-based education center is authorized to retain ownership of such properties.(2) Provided, however, ownership of such properties may, by vote of the board, be restructured. (1) The …

(a) The State Board of Education shall operate as a coordinating board for community-based education centers. (b) (1) Furthermore, the governing board of a community-based education center is encouraged to create a general advisory council. (2) Such general advisory council shall…

(a) The General Assembly designates that the community-based education centers created by this subchapter meet the definition of “local education agencies” by virtue of the fact that each is a public authority legally constituted within this state to perform a service function fo…

(1) It is the purpose of this subchapter to initiate a broad array of legislative authority whose purpose it is to:(1) Upgrade the quality and quantity of postsecondary vocational and technical education;(2) Permit the expansion of programs leading to associate of applied science…

(a) (1) All postsecondary vocational-technical schools, technical institutes, and comprehensive lifelong learning centers within the State of Arkansas shall present to the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Division of Higher Education a report reflecting a sati…

(a) All postsecondary vocational-technical schools, including those which expand their services under § 6-51-217 or under § 6-51-906 shall be governed by a local board of directors. (b) (1) (A) The Governor shall appoint a five-member local board of directors composed of resident…

(a) The powers and duties of the local board shall be as follows:(1) To acquire, hold, and transfer real and personal property, to enter into contracts, to institute and defend legal actions and suits, and to exercise such other rights and privileges as may be necessary for the m…

(a) A technical institute may offer programs which lead to an Associate of Applied Science degree. (b) Each technical institute shall operate within a service area assigned by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board. (c) (1) The board of directors of the technical instit…

(a) Schools not converting to technical institutes as provided by other sections of this subchapter, or community colleges under existing law, shall expand program offerings and become a comprehensive lifelong learning center. (b) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board …

(a) Any Arkansas technical institute or comprehensive lifelong learning center desiring to offer college transfer courses or to increase the number of associate of applied science degrees being offered may initiate such college transfer courses or occupational degree programs und…