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6-15-2914. School-level improvement plans — School district support plans.
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6-15-2914. School-level improvement plans — School district support plans.
(a) The General Assembly finds that it is the responsibility of:
(1) The state to support its public school districts; and
(2) A public school district to support its schools.
(b)(1)(A) Beginning on May 1, 2018, and by May 1 annually thereafter, a public school shall submit to its public school district a school-level improvement plan for approval by the public school district and public school district board of directors for implementation in the following school year.
(B)(i) A public school district and an open-enrollment public charter school shall include a literacy plan in the annual school-level improvement plan required under subdivision (b)(1)(A) of this section.
(ii) The literacy plan required under subdivision (b)(1)(B)(i) of this section shall include without limitation a curriculum program and a professional development program that are:
(a) Aligned with the literacy needs of the public school district; and
(b) Based on the science of reading as defined by § 6-17-429(k)(1).
(2) School-level improvement plans shall be posted on the public school district's website by August 1 of each year.
(c) School-level improvement plans shall be:
(1) Monitored by the public school district for implementation fidelity and progress throughout the year; and
(2) Evaluated annually by the public school district for goal progress and accomplishment.
(d)(1) Annually by September 1, a public school district receiving Level 2 — Collaborative, Level 3 — Coordinated, Level 4 — Directed, or Level 5 — Intensive support shall submit to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education a public school district support plan in accordance with rules of the State Board of Education.
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6-15-2914. School-level improvement plans — School district support plans.
(a) The General Assembly finds that it is the responsibility of:
(1) The state to support its public school districts; and
(2) A public school district to support its schools.
(b)(1)(A) Beginning on May 1, 2018, and by May 1 annually thereafter, a public school shall submit to its public school district a school-level improvement plan for approval by the public school district and public school district board of directors for implementation in the following school year.
(B)(i) A public school district and an open-enrollment public charter school shall include a literacy plan in the annual school-level improvement plan required under subdivision (b)(1)(A) of this section.
(ii) The literacy plan required under subdivision (b)(1)(B)(i) of this section shall include without limitation a curriculum program and a professional development program that are:
(a) Aligned with the literacy needs of the public school district; and
(b) Based on the science of reading as defined by § 6-17-429(k)(1).
(2) School-level improvement plans shall be posted on the public school district's website by August 1 of each year.
(c) School-level improvement plans shall be:
(1) Monitored by the public school district for implementation fidelity and progress throughout the year; and
(2) Evaluated annually by the public school district for goal progress and accomplishment.
(d)(1) Annually by September 1, a public school district receiving Level 2 — Collaborative, Level 3 — Coordinated, Level 4 — Directed, or Level 5 — Intensive support shall submit to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education a public school district support plan in accordance with rules of the State Board of Education.
(2) A public school district's support plan shall be posted on the public school district's website no later than ten (10) days after submission to the division.
(3)(A) A public school district in which forty percent (40%) or more of the public school district's students scored “in need of support” on the state's prior year summative assessment for reading shall develop a literacy plan as part of the public school district support plan required under this section.
(B) The public school district literacy plan shall include:
(i) Goals for improving reading achievement throughout the public school district; and
(ii) Information regarding the prioritization of funding, including without limitation Enhanced Student Achievement Funding received under § 6-20-2305, for strategies to improve reading achievement throughout the public school district.
(e) Public school district support plans shall include without limitation the support the public school district will provide to public schools identified as in need of targeted or comprehensive support, or both, pursuant to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Pub. L. No. 89-10, as reauthorized by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, Pub. L. No. 114-95.
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6-17-429. Right to Read Act — Definitions.
(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Right to Read Act”.
(b)(1)(A) No later than 2023, the following shall have proficient knowledge and skills to teach reading consistent with the best practices of scientific reading instruction:
(i) A person who completes a state-approved educator preparation program; and
(ii) A person seeking teacher licensure by reciprocity or by adding an endorsement.
(B) No later than 2023, a person who completes a state-approved educator preparation program other than a teacher of elementary education program shall demonstrate an awareness of the best practices of scientific reading instruction.
(2) Beginning no later than the 2022-2023 school year, each state-approved educator preparation program shall post on its website information describing its program to prepare teachers to teach reading using scientific reading instruction aligned with but not limited to the content measured by the stand-alone reading assessment adopted by the State Board of Education under § 6-17-402.
(c)(1) Beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, a public school district and an open-enrollment public charter school shall provide the following professional development in scientific reading instruction:
(A) For teachers licensed at the elementary level in kindergarten through grade six (K-6), teachers with a special education license in kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12), and teachers licensed as reading specialists in kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12), professional development for one (1) of the prescribed pathways to obtaining a proficiency credential in knowledge and practices in scientific reading instruction; and
(B) For teachers licensed at a level other than the elementar
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-17-429
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6-20-2305. School funding.
(a)(1)(A) For each school year, each school district shall receive state foundation funding aid computed as the foundation funding amount under subdivision (a)(2) of this section less the sum of:
(i) Ninety-eight percent (98%) of the uniform rate of tax multiplied by the property assessment of the school district; and
(ii) An amount of miscellaneous funds of the school district calculated under § 6-20-2308.
(B) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall distribute state foundation funding aid to each school district in twelve (12) monthly payments.
(2)(A) For the 2019-2020 school year, the foundation funding amount is equal to six thousand eight hundred ninety-nine dollars ($6,899) multiplied by the school district's average daily membership for the previous school year.
(B) For the 2020-2021 school year and each school year thereafter, the foundation funding amount is equal to seven thousand eighteen dollars ($7,018) multiplied by the school district's average daily membership for the previous school year.
(3)(A) A school district that has experienced a decline in average daily membership over the two (2) immediately preceding school years shall receive:
(i) Declining enrollment funding equal to the difference between the average of the two (2) immediately preceding years' average daily memberships and the average daily membership for the previous school year multiplied by the amount of foundation funding set forth in subdivision (a)(2) of this section; or
(ii) Special needs isolated funding under § 6-20-604.
(B) Any funding appropriated and available for declining enrollment funding under subdivision (a)(3)(A)(i) of this section or special needs isolated funding under § 6-20-604 that is not distributed under
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-20-2305
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