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6-16-601. Authority — Definitions.
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6-16-601. Authority — Definitions.
(a) As used in this subchapter:
(1) “College and career readiness assessment” means a set of criterion-referenced measurements of a student's acquisition of the knowledge and skills the student needs to be successful in future endeavors, including:
(A) Successfully completing credit-bearing, first-year courses at a postsecondary institution; and
(B) Embarking on a chosen career;
(2)(A) “College and career readiness benchmark” means the minimum score on a college and career readiness assessment in mathematics or English language arts.
(B) College and career readiness benchmarks are determined by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State Board of Education;
(3) “Eligible student” means a public school student in Arkansas who:
(A) Is enrolled in any of grades eight through eleven (8-11);
(B) Is identified through a college and career readiness assessment as scoring below the college and career readiness benchmark in mathematics or English language arts;
(C) Has received the counseling required under § 6-16-602; and
(D) Desires to enroll in postsecondary education;
(4) “Placement test” means a test for entrance to postsecondary education that is either:
(A) Approved by the State Board of Education; or
(B) Designated by the Division of Higher Education; and
(5) “Postsecondary preparatory program” means an intensive program approved under this subchapter that is focused on preparing students for entry level postsecondary work in the areas of mathematics, English, and reading based on identified needs for college enrollment and placement.
(b)(1) The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules under which the following may operate postsecondary preparatory programs in Arkansas:
(A) Sch
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-16-601
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6-16-601. Authority — Definitions.
(a) As used in this subchapter:
(1) “College and career readiness assessment” means a set of criterion-referenced measurements of a student's acquisition of the knowledge and skills the student needs to be successful in future endeavors, including:
(A) Successfully completing credit-bearing, first-year courses at a postsecondary institution; and
(B) Embarking on a chosen career;
(2)(A) “College and career readiness benchmark” means the minimum score on a college and career readiness assessment in mathematics or English language arts.
(B) College and career readiness benchmarks are determined by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State Board of Education;
(3) “Eligible student” means a public school student in Arkansas who:
(A) Is enrolled in any of grades eight through eleven (8-11);
(B) Is identified through a college and career readiness assessment as scoring below the college and career readiness benchmark in mathematics or English language arts;
(C) Has received the counseling required under § 6-16-602; and
(D) Desires to enroll in postsecondary education;
(4) “Placement test” means a test for entrance to postsecondary education that is either:
(A) Approved by the State Board of Education; or
(B) Designated by the Division of Higher Education; and
(5) “Postsecondary preparatory program” means an intensive program approved under this subchapter that is focused on preparing students for entry level postsecondary work in the areas of mathematics, English, and reading based on identified needs for college enrollment and placement.
(b)(1) The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules under which the following may operate postsecondary preparatory programs in Arkansas:
(A) School districts;
(B) Institutions of higher education; or
(C) A partnership of a school district and an institution of higher education.
(2) The rules shall include without limitation:
(A) The number and location of sites for postsecondary preparatory programs, if necessary;
(B) The minimum and maximum class sizes for postsecondary preparatory programs;
(C) That a school district may use Enhanced Student Achievement Funding received under § 6-20-2305 to operate and support a postsecondary preparatory program; and
(D) The forms and procedures necessary to implement this subchapter.
(c) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall:
(1) Approve content guides for postsecondary preparatory programs with assistance from the Division of Higher Education; and
(2)(A) Approve or disapprove the annual application of a postsecondary preparatory program after:
(i) Reviewing evidence of the postsecondary preparatory program's performance and success; and
(ii) Giving priority for approval and funding to a postsecondary preparatory program operated by a partnership between a school district and an institution of higher education.
(B) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall not approve an application under this subdivision (c)(2) unless the postsecondary preparatory program meets the criteria under this subchapter and established by State Board of Education rules.
(d)(1) In collaboration with the Division of Higher Education, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall collect and analyze the following data from postsecondary preparatory programs:
(A) The total number of participants;
(B) The number of participants who were eligible for free and reduced-price meals under the National School Lunch Act;
(C) The total number of participants in each curriculum area identified in § 6-16-602;
(D) The progress of participants monitored in the postsecondary preparatory program through the use of college and career readiness assessments;
(E) The placement test scores of participants;
(F) The number of participants who enrolled in postsecondary preparatory programs in Arkansas and who:
(i) Scored lower than the statewide minimum scores established by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board for college placement; or
(ii) Scored at or higher than the statewide minimum scores established by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board for college placement;
(G) The number and type of postsecondary preparatory programs approved;
(H) The school operating the postsecondary preparatory programs approved; and
(I) The amount of funding the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education distributed to each postsecondary preparatory program.
(2) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall:
(A) Store the student data collected under this subsection in the Arkansas Public School Computer Network;
(B) Present the data analysis under this subsection in the annual school performance reports as required under § 6-15-1402; and
(C) Annually release to the General Assembly the data collected under this subsection after removing any personally identifiable student information.
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6-15-1402. Purpose — Report — Confidentiality — Rules.
(a)(1) In order to generally improve public school accountability, to provide benchmarks for measuring individual school improvement, and to empower parents and guardians of children enrolled in Arkansas public schools by providing them with the information to judge the quality of their schools, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall prepare and publish annually a school performance report for each public school in the state, including without limitation the Arkansas School for the Deaf, the Arkansas School for the Blind, and the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, and shall notify the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education of the availability of the report on the division's website no later than April 15 each year.
(2)(A) The school performance report for each school shall be made available to every parent or guardian of a child in kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) in the public schools of Arkansas by posting the school performance report for each school on the website of the division by April 15 each year.
(B) Each school district shall post the school performance report for each of its schools on the district's website not later than ten (10) days after it is posted on the division's website.
(b)(1)(A) The school performance report shall be based on reliable statistical information uniformly required to be collected and submitted by each local school district to the division and shall be published in a format that can be easily understood by parents or guardians who are not professional educators.
(B) The information necessary to produce the school performance report, including the names and addresses of parents and guardians, sha
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-15-1402
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6-16-602. Programs generally.
(a) The postsecondary preparatory programs established under authority of this subchapter shall:
(1) Provide advice that will better prepare eligible students for entry-level postsecondary work in the areas of mathematics, English, and reading;
(2) Improve diagnostic efforts, counseling, placement, and instruction for eligible students;
(3)(A) Provide intensive remedial instruction to eligible students enrolled in the postsecondary preparatory program in one (1) or more of the following curriculum areas:
(i) Mathematics;
(ii) English; or
(iii) Reading.
(B) Each curriculum area shall consist of twenty-five (25) hours or more of instruction;
(4)(A) Use instructors with appropriate content knowledge and specialized training developed by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education for instructors of developmental education.
(B) A postsecondary preparatory program may use an instructor who does not hold an Arkansas teaching license if the nonlicensed instructor works together with an instructor who holds a current Arkansas teaching license;
(5) Effectively use college and career readiness assessments to monitor the progress of participants in the postsecondary preparatory program;
(6) Use innovative teaching and learning strategies that are designed to be effective with participants in the postsecondary preparatory program;
(7) Document evidence of the postsecondary preparatory program's success and the performance of its participants; and
(8) Meet other requirements established by rule.
(b) A postsecondary preparatory program shall not receive funding under this subchapter unless the postsecondary preparatory program files an annual application with the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and the
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-16-602
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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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