Title 6, Education

(a) A school district may upon agreement with another school district transfer students to the nonresident school district for summer school classes. (b) The cost of the summer school classes shall be the responsibility of the sending school district at a rate agreed upon by both…

(a) The General Assembly finds and acknowledges that a system of evaluation is needed to justify expenditure of state resources on effective instructional programs and to eliminate state funding of ineffective instructional programs. The General Assembly further finds that an eva…

Every public elementary school and every public secondary school in the State of Arkansas shall have in its employ at least one (1) person who is certified by the American Red Cross or approved by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education as qualified to administer emerg…

(a) The teacher shall keep such records and make such reports as may be required by the school district board of directors employing the teacher. (b) No teacher shall be entitled to the last month's pay under his or her contract with a public school district until he or she has p…

(a) (1) It is unlawful during regular school hours and in a place where a public school employee is required to be in the course of his or her duties for any person to address a public school employee using language that in its common acceptation is calculated to:(A) Cause a brea…

(a) Teachers and other school personnel in this state shall be immune from liability and suit for damages for communicating information in good faith concerning drug abuse by any pupil to that pupil's parents, to law enforcement officers, or to healthcare providers. (b) (1) Teach…

Any teacher may wear the clothing of any established and recognized religion in the public schools and institutions of this state.

Teachers of family and consumer science shall be reimbursed for travel in the same manner as provided for teachers of agriculture.

(a) The State Board of Education is hereby authorized and directed to develop, in cooperation with the Black History Commission of Arkansas, an inclusive statewide program to increase the racial and ethnic sensitivity of teachers and administrators in the public schools of this s…

(a) Before selecting a policy or entering into an agreement with an insurance company for the providing of life or disability insurance for public school employees as authorized in this subchapter, the State Board of Finance shall publicize, by inserting in one (1) or more newspa…

(a) (1) Each school district in this state shall provide at least a thirty-minute uninterrupted duty-free lunch period during each student instructional day for each licensed school employee in its employment.(2) Any teacher not receiving a duty-free lunch period during each stud…

(a) Members of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System who have rendered, or shall render, service as employees of the public schools who hereafter retire and receive retirement benefits under the Arkansas Teacher Retirement Sys…

(a) (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall establish a School Worker Defense Program for the protection under subdivision (a)(2) of this section of:(A) Education service cooperatives;(B) Education service cooperative board members;(C) School districts;(D) Pu…

(1) It is the duty of the State Board of Finance, the Supervisor of the Public School Employees Insurance Section and the insurance section employees, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, and each public school district and their officers and employees:(1) To coope…

(a) The employees of an independent school district may be insured under an individual or group insurance policy procured by an independent school district to insure the employees of an independent school district for the benefit of the employees of an independent school district…

(a) The House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education through the biennial adequacy review process required by § 10-3-2102 shall provide a health contribution rate recommendation to the General Assembly. (b) (1) (A) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Ed…

(a) (1) Except as provided under subdivision (a)(2) of this section, teachers and administrators in a school district that authorizes use of corporal punishment in the school district's written student discipline policy shall be immune from any civil liability for administering c…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Act of violence” means any violation of Arkansas law where a person purposely or knowingly causes or threatens to cause death or serious physical injury to another person;(2) “Deadly weapon” means:(A) A firearm or anything manifestly designed, mad…

(a) (1) Effective beginning the 2003-2004 school year, each school district in this state shall provide a minimum of two hundred (200) minutes each week for each teacher to schedule time for conferences, instructional planning, and preparation for all classroom teachers employed …

(a) It is the policy of this state to encourage public school employees to participate in government and to reduce barriers to their seeking or holding an elective or appointive office. Therefore, it is the purpose of this section to provide public school employees clear informat…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as “The Arkansas School Children Protection Act”. (b) For purposes of this section:(1) “Conviction” means having pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to or having been found guilty of committing a sexual offense against a minor or stu…

(a) (1) The purpose of this section is to provide additional time for instructional purposes and to reduce the amount of time for noninstructional duties.(2) Any teacher assigned more than sixty (60) minutes of noninstructional duties per week shall be contracted in accordance wi…

(a) (1) Any public school district or open-enrollment charter school may develop a program that offers that school district's or charter school's surplus personal computers for loan to public school students attending that public school district or open-enrollment charter school.…

(a) (1) As used in this section, “labor organization” means a lawful organization that is composed of public school employees that exists for the purpose of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or other terms and …

The title of this subchapter shall be “The Teachers' Minimum Sick Leave Law”.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Accumulated sick leave” means the total number of days of unused sick leave that a teacher has to his or her credit;(2) “Immediate family” means the teacher's:(A) Spouse;(B) Child;(C) Parent; or(D) Any other relative if the other relative lives…

(a) The board of directors of each school district shall adopt written policies for the administration of sick leave. (b) These policies and regulations shall be a part of the written personnel policies of each school district, and a copy shall be furnished to each teacher.

(a) (1) Each school district in the state shall provide sick leave for each of its teachers at a minimum rate of one (1) day per month or major portion thereof that the teacher is contracted at full pay.(2) A school district shall credit one (1) day of sick leave to a teacher if …

(a) A record of sick leave used and accumulated shall be established and maintained by each school district for each of its teachers. (b) Sick leave that is unused by a teacher during any school year shall be accumulated in that teacher's sick leave account at a rate of one (1) d…

(a) Whenever an employee of a school district, an education service cooperative, a state education agency, or a two-year college in this state shall leave the school district, education service cooperative, state education agency, or two-year college and accept employment in anot…

Payment for unused sick leave shall be made from the salary fund of the school district, and these moneys shall be included in meeting the annual requirements for payment of teachers' salaries.

The number of days of sick leave provided by this subchapter are minimums only, and nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit any school district from providing more days of sick leave or from having a more liberal policy for the administration of sick leave, including, but not l…

(a) (1) (A) Whenever a schoolteacher is absent from his or her duties in a public school as a result of personal injury caused by either an assault or a criminal act committed against the teacher in the course of his or her employment, the teacher shall be granted a leave of abse…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Drug” means the same as defined in § 5-64-101;(2) “Drug screening” means a chemical test administered for the purpose of determining the presence or absence of a drug in an individual's blood, breath, or urine;(3) “Employee” means an individual wh…

(a) (1) An employee of a public school district or an open-enrollment public charter school shall be eligible for up to twelve (12) weeks of paid maternity leave when the employee:(A) Has been employed by a public school district or an open-enrollment public charter school for on…

(a) Each local school district board of directors shall establish, as part of a superintendent’s contract of employment, written performance targets for the public schools at both the school level and district level that include without limitation the following:(1) Student achiev…

(a) A school shall not:(1) Require a school employee to complete or participate in implicit bias training; or(2) Take adverse employment action against a school employee for the school employee's failure or refusal to complete or participate in implicit bias training. (1) Require…

The title of this subchapter is “The School Employees' Minimum Sick Leave Law”.

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Accumulated sick leave” means the total number of days of unused sick leave that a school employee has to his or her credit;(2) “Immediate family” includes the school employee's spouse, children, parents, …

(a) The board of directors of each school district shall adopt written policies for the administration of sick leave. (b) Such policies and regulations shall be a part of the written policies of each school district, and a copy shall be furnished to each school employee.

(a) Each school district in the state shall provide sick leave for each of its school employees at a minimum accumulation rate of one (1) day per month or major portion thereof that the school employee is employed at full pay. (b) Such accumulation shall begin with the first mont…

(a) A record of sick leave used and accumulated shall be established and maintained by each school district for each of its employees. (b) Sick leave that is unused by a school employee during any school year shall be accumulated in such school employee's sick leave account at a …

The number of days of sick leave provided by this subchapter are minimums only, and nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit any school district from providing more days of sick leave or from having a more liberal policy for the administration of sick leave, including, but not l…

(a) Whenever a school employee employed by a school district in this state shall leave the school district and accept employment in another school district, the school employee shall be granted credit by the new school district for up to ninety (90) days of unused sick leave accu…

(a) (1) Each school district shall grant a leave of absence with full pay for a maximum period of one (1) year to any school employee who is absent from duty in a public school as a result of personal injury from an assault or other violent criminal act committed against the scho…

Workers' compensation coverage as provided in the Workers' Compensation Law, § 11-9-101 et seq., shall be provided for personal injuries and death of officers and employees of public schools in this state.