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6-15-207. Enforcement of standards.
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6-15-207. Enforcement of standards.
(a) The State Board of Education may take any number of the actions listed in subsection (c) of this section to address a school or school district failure to meet standards for accreditation any time after a school or school district has received notice of being placed on probationary status pursuant to §§ 6-15-202 and 6-15-203.
(b) The state board shall take at least one (1) of the actions listed in subsection (c) of this section to address any school or school district which has failed to meet all standards for accreditation for two (2) consecutive school years, including the year the probationary status is declared pursuant to §§ 6-15-202 and 6-15-203, unless the state board, at its discretion, issues written findings supported by a majority of the state board that the school district could not meet current standards for the relevant time period due to impossibility caused by external forces beyond the school district's control.
(c) The state board shall be allowed to take the following actions to address any school or school district on probationary status for failing to meet the standards for accreditation:
(1) Require a school district to reorganize or reassign the administrative, instructional, or support staff of a public school;
(2) Require a school or school district to institute and fully implement a curriculum that is based on state academic content and achievement standards, including providing appropriate professional development at the cost of the school district;
(3) Remove a particular school from the jurisdiction of a school district and establish alternative public governance and supervision of the school;
(4) Require a school district to close down or dissolve a particular school or schools within a
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-15-207
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6-15-207. Enforcement of standards.
(a) The State Board of Education may take any number of the actions listed in subsection (c) of this section to address a school or school district failure to meet standards for accreditation any time after a school or school district has received notice of being placed on probationary status pursuant to §§ 6-15-202 and 6-15-203.
(b) The state board shall take at least one (1) of the actions listed in subsection (c) of this section to address any school or school district which has failed to meet all standards for accreditation for two (2) consecutive school years, including the year the probationary status is declared pursuant to §§ 6-15-202 and 6-15-203, unless the state board, at its discretion, issues written findings supported by a majority of the state board that the school district could not meet current standards for the relevant time period due to impossibility caused by external forces beyond the school district's control.
(c) The state board shall be allowed to take the following actions to address any school or school district on probationary status for failing to meet the standards for accreditation:
(1) Require a school district to reorganize or reassign the administrative, instructional, or support staff of a public school;
(2) Require a school or school district to institute and fully implement a curriculum that is based on state academic content and achievement standards, including providing appropriate professional development at the cost of the school district;
(3) Remove a particular school from the jurisdiction of a school district and establish alternative public governance and supervision of the school;
(4) Require a school district to close down or dissolve a particular school or schools within a school district;
(5) Annex a school district or districts or parts thereof with another receiving school district or districts pursuant to the authority of § 6-13-1401 et seq. and this subchapter;
(6) Consolidate a school district or districts or parts thereof with another school district or districts or parts thereof to form a resulting district pursuant to the authority of § 6-13-1401 et seq. and this subchapter;
(7) Reconstitute the leadership of a school district by removing permanently or suspending on a temporary basis the superintendent of the school district or any particular board members of a school district. The state board shall have the authority to appoint an administrator or to call for the election of new school district board members to administer the affairs and provide governance of the school district, or both; and
(8) Take any other appropriate action allowed by law which is determined by the state board to assist and address a school or school district failure to meet the standards for accreditation.
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6-13-1401. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Affected district” means a school district that:
(A) Loses territory or students as a result of annexation; or
(B) Is involved in a consolidation;
(2) “Aggrieved district” means the lawfully constituted and existing board of directors of a school district that gains or loses territory or students as a result of an annexation or consolidation;
(3) “Annexation” means the joining of an affected school district or part thereof with a receiving district;
(4) “Consolidation” means the joining of two (2) or more affected school districts or parts thereof to create a new single school district;
(5) “Receiving district” means a school district or districts that receive territory or students, or both, from an affected district as a result of annexation; and
(6) “Resulting district” means the new school district created from an affected district or districts as a result of consolidation.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-13-1401
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6-15-202. Accreditation — Development of rules, criteria, and standards.
(a)(1) The State Board of Education is authorized and directed to develop comprehensive rules, criteria, and standards to be used by the state board and the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education in the accreditation of school programs in elementary and secondary public schools in this state.
(2) In its rules, criteria, and standards promulgated under this subchapter, the state board shall include a provision regarding the attainment of unitary status for school districts that have not been released from court supervision over desegregation obligations.
(b)(1) All public schools and school districts shall meet the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts that shall be adopted by the state board.
(2)(A) Except as provided under subdivisions (b)(2)(B)-(E) of this section, upon a showing of just cause, the state board may grant a waiver of any standard for accreditation for a time period of no longer than one (1) school year, except that no curriculum, student performance, school performance, or any standard required by law may be waived for any time period.
(B) The state board may grant a waiver of a standard for accreditation for a time period of longer than one (1) school year to a school district for the purpose of combining or embedding the curriculum frameworks from two (2) separate courses into one (1) combined or embedded course if:
(i) The school district timely makes an application for approval of the combined or embedded course to the division under the rules adopted by the state board;
(ii) The school district certifies in writing to the state board that all of the curriculum frameworks for the two (2) separate courses will be fully
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-15-202
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 6-15-202. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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6-15-203. Notification of failure to meet standards for accreditation — Appeal.
(a)(1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education annually shall notify all schools or school districts failing to meet standards for accreditation for elementary and secondary schools not later than May 1 of each year of this determination.
(2)(A) However, at any time the division may immediately notify a public school or school district failing to meet standards for accreditation for elementary and secondary schools when the failure is discovered by the division under § 6-15-202(i).
(B) A public school or school district notified by the division of the public school's or school district's failure to meet the standards for accreditation due to actions taken under § 6-15-202(i) shall have the same period of time to appeal to the State Board of Education as provided under subdivision (b)(3) of this section.
(b)(1) In the event that a school district affected by this subchapter believes the division has improperly determined that a school or school district fails to meet the standards for accreditation, the school district shall have a right of appeal thereafter to the state board.
(2) Any appeal shall be held in an open hearing, and the decision of the state board shall be in open session.
(3) Appeals must be filed not later than May 15 following the May 1 determination of accreditation status, and the state board hearing must be held before June 30 of the same calendar year.
(4) The state board may confirm the classification of a local school or school district as determined by the division, or it may sustain the appeal of the school district.
(5) An aggrieved school district may appeal the ruling of the state board to Pulaski County Circuit Court pursuant to the Arka
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-15-203
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 6-15-203. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.