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6-20-1910. State board actions.
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6-20-1910. State board actions.
(a) After a public hearing, the State Board of Education shall consolidate, annex, or reconstitute the school district in fiscal distress to another school district or school districts upon a majority vote of a quorum of the members of the state board as permitted or required by this subchapter.
(b) The state board has exclusive jurisdiction to determine the boundary lines of the receiving or resulting school district and to allocate assets and liabilities of the school district.
(c) The decision of the state board shall be final with no further right of appeal except that a school district may appeal to Pulaski County Circuit Court pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.
(d) [Repealed.]
(e)(1) If, by the end of the fifth school year following the school district's classification of fiscal distress status, the school district in fiscal distress has not corrected all issues that caused the classification of fiscal distress, the state board, after a public hearing, shall consolidate, annex, or reconstitute the school district under this section.
(2) The state board may grant additional time for a public school or school district to remove itself from fiscal distress by issuing a written finding supported by a majority of the state board explaining in detail that the public school or school district could not remove itself from fiscal distress during the relevant time period due to impossibility caused by external forces beyond the control of the public school or school district.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education or the state board from taking any of the actions listed in § 6-20-1909 or this section at any time to addre
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-20-1910
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6-20-1910. State board actions.
(a) After a public hearing, the State Board of Education shall consolidate, annex, or reconstitute the school district in fiscal distress to another school district or school districts upon a majority vote of a quorum of the members of the state board as permitted or required by this subchapter.
(b) The state board has exclusive jurisdiction to determine the boundary lines of the receiving or resulting school district and to allocate assets and liabilities of the school district.
(c) The decision of the state board shall be final with no further right of appeal except that a school district may appeal to Pulaski County Circuit Court pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.
(d) [Repealed.]
(e)(1) If, by the end of the fifth school year following the school district's classification of fiscal distress status, the school district in fiscal distress has not corrected all issues that caused the classification of fiscal distress, the state board, after a public hearing, shall consolidate, annex, or reconstitute the school district under this section.
(2) The state board may grant additional time for a public school or school district to remove itself from fiscal distress by issuing a written finding supported by a majority of the state board explaining in detail that the public school or school district could not remove itself from fiscal distress during the relevant time period due to impossibility caused by external forces beyond the control of the public school or school district.
(f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education or the state board from taking any of the actions listed in § 6-20-1909 or this section at any time to address a school district in fiscal distress.
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25-15-201. Title.
This subchapter shall be known and cited as the “Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act”.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 25-15-201
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6-20-1909. Division fiscal distress actions.
(a) In addressing public school districts in fiscal distress, the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education may:
(1) Remove permanently, reassign, or suspend on a temporary basis the superintendent of the public school district and:
(A) Appoint an individual in place of the superintendent to administratively operate the public school district under the supervision and approval of the commissioner;
(B) Compensate nondivision agents operating the public school district from public school district funding; and
(C) Authorize an individual appointed under subdivision (a)(1)(A) of this section to remove, replace, reassign, or suspend public school district personnel in accordance with state law;
(2) Suspend or remove some or all of the current board of directors and call for the election of a new board of directors for the public school district, in which case the public school district shall reimburse the county board of election commissioners for election costs as otherwise recognized by law;
(3)(A) Suspend on a temporary basis some or all of the powers and duties granted to the current public school district board of directors under § 6-13-620 or any other law but allow the public school district board of directors to continue to operate under the direction and approval of the commissioner.
(B) The State Board of Education shall define the powers and duties of the public school district board of directors while the public school district board of directors is operating under the direction and approval of the commissioner under subdivision (a)(3)(A) of this section.
(C) The public school district board of directors shall act in an advisory capacity to the commissioner regarding all powers and duties gra
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-20-1909
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 6-20-1909. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.