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6-13-635. School board review and approval of salary increases — Definition.
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6-13-635. School board review and approval of salary increases — Definition.
(a) As used in this section, “salary increase” means an increase in the salary paid to a school district employee for performing substantially the same job functions as the employee performed before receiving the salary increase.
(b)(1)(A) A school district board of directors shall review and approve by a written resolution an increase in salary of five percent (5%) or more for a school district employee.
(B) The resolution shall include the reasons for the salary increase, which may include without limitation:
(i) A bonus that is not added to the employee's salary;
(ii) An incentive bonus provided:
(a) For National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification under § 6-17-413; (b) To a certified speech-language pathologist under § 6-17-413; (c) For teacher recruitment or retention in high-priority school districts under § 6-17-811; (d) To a master principal under § 6-17-1603; or (e) Under another specific provision of law; or
(iii) An increase in salary received as a result of the school district employee moving into a new position with substantially different job functions.
(2)(A) The school district shall provide a certified copy of the written resolution required under this subsection to the auditor who conducts the annual financial audit of the school district.
(B) Within thirty (30) days following the date of an audit report in which an auditor notes noncompliance under this section, the school district shall provide a copy of the audit report to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education.
(C) Annually by October 1, the division shall:
(i) Compile a list of the reports of noncompliance received under this section; and
(ii)
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-13-635
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6-13-635. School board review and approval of salary increases — Definition.
(a) As used in this section, “salary increase” means an increase in the salary paid to a school district employee for performing substantially the same job functions as the employee performed before receiving the salary increase.
(b)(1)(A) A school district board of directors shall review and approve by a written resolution an increase in salary of five percent (5%) or more for a school district employee.
(B) The resolution shall include the reasons for the salary increase, which may include without limitation:
(i) A bonus that is not added to the employee's salary;
(ii) An incentive bonus provided:
(a) For National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification under § 6-17-413; (b) To a certified speech-language pathologist under § 6-17-413; (c) For teacher recruitment or retention in high-priority school districts under § 6-17-811; (d) To a master principal under § 6-17-1603; or (e) Under another specific provision of law; or
(iii) An increase in salary received as a result of the school district employee moving into a new position with substantially different job functions.
(2)(A) The school district shall provide a certified copy of the written resolution required under this subsection to the auditor who conducts the annual financial audit of the school district.
(B) Within thirty (30) days following the date of an audit report in which an auditor notes noncompliance under this section, the school district shall provide a copy of the audit report to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education.
(C) Annually by October 1, the division shall:
(i) Compile a list of the reports of noncompliance received under this section; and
(ii) Provide the list to the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education.
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6-17-1603. Yearly incentive bonus.
(a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall promulgate rules for the nine-thousand-dollar yearly incentive bonus provided under this section for principals receiving master school principal status.
(b) The division shall pay a yearly incentive bonus of nine thousand dollars ($9,000) for every school year for no more than five (5) years to any building-level principal who:
(1) Receives a master school principal designation from the Arkansas Leadership Academy; and
(2) At the time of receiving the bonus, is employed full time as a building-level principal in an Arkansas public school district.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-17-1603
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6-17-413. National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification funding — Bonuses — Definitions.
(a)(1)(A) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall pay the full amount of the participation fee of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and provide, if determined to be necessary by the division, substitute pay for a maximum of three (3) days of approved paid leave for teachers selected by the State Board of Education to participate in the program of the national board.
(B) A teacher shall have completed at least three (3) years of teaching in the Arkansas public school system before applying for the assistance under this section and § 6-17-412 and shall not have previously received state funding for participation in any certification area in the program of the national board.
(2)(A) The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules for the selection process of teacher participants in the program of the national board.
(B) The number of teacher participants each year will be determined by the amount of funding available for the program.
(3)(A) The division shall pay a yearly incentive bonus of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for no more than ten (10) school years or, in the case of a recertification obtained before January 1, 2018, for the life of the recertification to any classroom teacher, building-level principal, or building-level assistant principal who:
(i) Is selected by the State Board of Education to participate in the program of the national board;
(ii) Successfully completes the certification process of the national board;
(iii) Has begun the certification process or has received certification or recertification of the national board before January 1, 2018; and
(iv) Is, at the time of receiving the b
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-17-413
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6-17-811. Incentives for teacher recruitment and retention in high-priority districts — Definitions.
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “High-priority district” means a public school district:
(A) In which eighty percent (80%) or more of public school students are national school lunch students; and
(B)(i) Except as provided by subdivision (a)(1)(B)(ii) of this section, that had a three-quarter average daily membership in the previous year of one thousand (1,000) or fewer students.
(ii) In order to further the state's policy of encouraging efficiency and the expansion of available course offerings that might be achieved through the voluntary consolidation or annexation of school districts, qualifying teachers in the resulting school district in an approved voluntary consolidation under § 6-13-1404(a)(2) or § 6-13-1603(a) or in a receiving district in an approved voluntary annexation under § 6-13-1403(a)(2)-(4) or § 6-13-1603(a) shall continue to receive the funding provided under this section if all school districts in the voluntary consolidation or annexation were high-priority districts in the immediately preceding school year, even if the average daily membership of the resulting or receiving school district is one thousand (1,000) or above.
(iii) By April 15 of each year, the State Board of Education shall determine the districts that qualify as high-priority districts of the state;
(2)(A) “National school lunch students” means those students or the percentage of enrolled students from low socioeconomic backgrounds as indicated by eligibility for free or reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Act as determined on October 1 of each previous school year and submitted to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, unless the school dist
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-17-811
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 6-17-811. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.