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6-16-1406. Digital learning courses.
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6-16-1406. Digital learning courses.
(a) All public school districts and public charter schools shall provide at least one (1) digital learning course to their students as either a primary or supplementary method of instruction.
(b) All digital learning courses provided by public school districts or public charter schools shall:
(1) Be of high quality;
(2) Meet or exceed the curriculum standards and requirements established by the State Board of Education; and
(3) Be made available in a blended learning, online-based, or other technology-based format tailored to meet the needs of each participating student.
(c) Digital learning courses shall be capable of being assessed and measured through standardized tests or local assessments.
(d) Beginning with the entering ninth grade class of the 2014-2015 school year, each high school student shall be required to take at least one (1) digital learning course for credit to graduate.
(e) The state board shall not limit the number of digital learning courses for which a student may receive credit through a public school or a public charter school and shall ensure that digital learning courses may be used as both primary and secondary methods of instruction.
(f) The state board may promulgate rules to implement this section.
(g) A public school district or open-enrollment public charter school that expels a student under § 6-18-507 shall offer to the expelled public school student digital learning courses or other alternative educational courses for which the student may receive academic credit that is at least equal to credit the expelled public school student may have received if he or she was still enrolled in his or her assigned public school or open-enrollment public charter school immediately before he or s
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-16-1406
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6-16-1406. Digital learning courses.
(a) All public school districts and public charter schools shall provide at least one (1) digital learning course to their students as either a primary or supplementary method of instruction.
(b) All digital learning courses provided by public school districts or public charter schools shall:
(1) Be of high quality;
(2) Meet or exceed the curriculum standards and requirements established by the State Board of Education; and
(3) Be made available in a blended learning, online-based, or other technology-based format tailored to meet the needs of each participating student.
(c) Digital learning courses shall be capable of being assessed and measured through standardized tests or local assessments.
(d) Beginning with the entering ninth grade class of the 2014-2015 school year, each high school student shall be required to take at least one (1) digital learning course for credit to graduate.
(e) The state board shall not limit the number of digital learning courses for which a student may receive credit through a public school or a public charter school and shall ensure that digital learning courses may be used as both primary and secondary methods of instruction.
(f) The state board may promulgate rules to implement this section.
(g) A public school district or open-enrollment public charter school that expels a student under § 6-18-507 shall offer to the expelled public school student digital learning courses or other alternative educational courses for which the student may receive academic credit that is at least equal to credit the expelled public school student may have received if he or she was still enrolled in his or her assigned public school or open-enrollment public charter school immediately before he or she was expelled.
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6-18-507. Suspension — Expulsion — Definitions.
(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Course time” means the number of hours of instruction devoted to a single subject during the school week;
(2) “Expulsion” means dismissal from school for a period of time that exceeds ten (10) days;
(3) “Nontraditional scheduling” means block or other alternative scheduling as defined by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education; and
(4) “Suspension” means dismissal from school for a period of time that does not exceed ten (10) days.
(b)(1) The board of directors of a school district may suspend or expel any student from school for violation of the school district's written discipline policies, except that a school district shall not use out-of-school suspension as a discipline measure for truancy.
(2) The school district shall not use out-of-school suspension or expulsion for a student in kindergarten through grade five (K-5) except in cases when a student's behavior:
(A) Poses a physical risk to himself or herself or to others; or
(B) Causes a serious disruption that cannot be addressed through other means.
(c)(1)(A) The board of directors may authorize a teacher or an administrator to suspend any student for a maximum of ten (10) school days for violation of the school district's written discipline policies, subject to appeal to the superintendent or his or her designee.
(B) However, schools that utilize nontraditional scheduling may not suspend students from more course time than would result from a ten-day suspension under the last traditional schedule used by the school district.
(2) If the superintendent initiates the suspension process, the decision may be appealed to the board of directors.
(d)(1) A superintendent may recommend the expulsion of a
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-18-507
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 6-18-507. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.