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6-20-601. Qualifications for receiving isolated funding — Definition.
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6-20-601. Qualifications for receiving isolated funding — Definition.
(a) As used in this section, “isolated school district” means a school district that meets any four (4) of the following five (5) criteria:
(1) There is a distance of twelve (12) miles or more by hard-surfaced highway from the high school of the district to the nearest adjacent high school in an adjoining district;
(2) The density ratio of transported students is less than three (3) students per square mile of area;
(3) The total area of the district is ninety-five square miles (95 sq. mi.) or greater;
(4) Less than fifty percent (50%) of bus route miles is on hard-surfaced roads; and
(5) There are geographic barriers such as lakes, rivers, and mountain ranges that would impede travel to schools that otherwise would be appropriate for consolidation, cooperative programs, and shared services.
(b) An isolated school district shall be eligible to receive isolated funding under this section if:
(1) The school district's budget is prepared by the school district with Division of Elementary and Secondary Education approval;
(2) The school district has a prior-year three-quarter average daily membership of fewer than three hundred fifty (350); and
(3) The school district and each school within the school district meets the minimum standards for accreditation of public schools prescribed by law and rule.
(c) Any school district designated as an isolated school district for the 1996-1997 fiscal year that used geographic barriers as one (1) of the four (4) criteria necessary to receive isolated funding shall be allowed to continue to use geographic barriers as a criterion for future allocations of isolated funding.
(d)(1) State financial aid in the form of isolated funding shall be provi
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-20-601
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6-20-601. Qualifications for receiving isolated funding — Definition.
(a) As used in this section, “isolated school district” means a school district that meets any four (4) of the following five (5) criteria:
(1) There is a distance of twelve (12) miles or more by hard-surfaced highway from the high school of the district to the nearest adjacent high school in an adjoining district;
(2) The density ratio of transported students is less than three (3) students per square mile of area;
(3) The total area of the district is ninety-five square miles (95 sq. mi.) or greater;
(4) Less than fifty percent (50%) of bus route miles is on hard-surfaced roads; and
(5) There are geographic barriers such as lakes, rivers, and mountain ranges that would impede travel to schools that otherwise would be appropriate for consolidation, cooperative programs, and shared services.
(b) An isolated school district shall be eligible to receive isolated funding under this section if:
(1) The school district's budget is prepared by the school district with Division of Elementary and Secondary Education approval;
(2) The school district has a prior-year three-quarter average daily membership of fewer than three hundred fifty (350); and
(3) The school district and each school within the school district meets the minimum standards for accreditation of public schools prescribed by law and rule.
(c) Any school district designated as an isolated school district for the 1996-1997 fiscal year that used geographic barriers as one (1) of the four (4) criteria necessary to receive isolated funding shall be allowed to continue to use geographic barriers as a criterion for future allocations of isolated funding.
(d)(1) State financial aid in the form of isolated funding shall be provided to school districts qualifying under this section.
(2) There are two (2) categories of isolated funding:
(A) Category I isolated funding shall be provided to all school districts that qualify under this section and shall be calculated as:
(i) Three hundred fifty (350) minus the prior-year three-quarter average daily membership; divided by
(ii) Eight hundred fifty (850); multiplied by
(iii) The prior-year three-quarter average daily membership; and multiplied by
(iv) The per-student foundation funding amount under § 6-20-2305(a)(2); and
(B) Category II isolated funding shall be additionally provided to those school districts that qualify under this section and have a prior-year three-quarter average daily membership density ratio of less than one and two-tenths (1.2) students per square mile and shall be calculated at fifty percent (50%) of Category I funding.
(3)(A) An isolated school district whose per-student revenue exceeds the per-student foundation funding amount shall receive isolated funding calculated as follows:
(i) The sum of Category I plus Category II; minus
(ii) The per-student foundation funding amount; minus
(iii) The school district's per-student revenue; and multiplied by
(iv) The prior-year three-quarter average daily membership.
(B) As used in this subdivision (d)(3), “revenue” has the same meaning as defined in § 6-20-2303.
(e)(1) Except as provided under subdivision (e)(2) of this section, a school district that qualifies under § 6-20-603 to receive additional state aid because its prior-year three-quarter average daily membership is less than three hundred fifty (350) is not eligible to receive funding under this section.
(2) A school district may elect to receive funding under this section in lieu of funding under § 6-20-603 if the school district qualifies for funding under § 6-20-603 and for funding under this section.
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6-20-2303. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Additional education categories” means state funds distributed to school districts for alternative learning environments, English-language learners, national school lunch students, and professional development;
(2) “Alternative learning environment” means a student intervention program in compliance with § 6-48-101 et seq. that seeks to eliminate traditional barriers to learning for students;
(3)(A) “Average daily membership” means the total number of days of school attended plus the total number of days absent by students in kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) during the first three (3) quarters of each school year divided by the number of school days actually taught in the school district during that period of time rounded up to the nearest hundredth.
(B) In those instances in which the average daily membership for fewer than three (3) quarters is specified, the number of days used in the calculation shall be the days in the specified period of time.
(C) As applied to this subchapter, students who may be counted for average daily membership are:
(i) Students who:
(a) Reside within the boundaries of the school district;
(b) Are enrolled in a public school operated by the school district; and
(c) Are enrolled in a curriculum that fulfills the requirements established by the State Board of Education under the Standards for Accreditation of Arkansas Public Schools and School Districts;
(ii)(a) Students who reside within the boundaries of the school district but due to geographic barriers attend school out-of-state under a tuition agreement.
(b) This subdivision (3)(C)(ii) shall apply even if the students enrolled in an out-of-state school are not enrolled in a curriculum that fulfills the
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-20-2303
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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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6-20-603. Continued support of isolated school districts.
(a) Upon the effective date of consolidation, annexation, or reorganization, the following school districts that received isolated funding in the 2003-2004 school year shall become isolated school areas for the sole purpose of receiving isolated funding and shall have a per student isolated funding amount as follows:
Per Student Isolated County School District Funding Amount Column A Column B Column C Van Buren Alread 2,219 Desha Arkansas City 2,040 Randolph Biggers-Reyno 763 Miller Bright Star 916 Marion Bruno-Pyatt 329 Dallas Carthage 1,938 Independence Cord-Charlotte 235 Woodruff Cotton Plant 733 Crittenden Crawfordsville 642 Newton Deer 853 Greene Delaplaine 215 Desha Delta Special 952 Nevada Emmet 307 Sharp Evening Shade 115 Ashley Fountain Hill 339 Yell Fourche Valley 1,603 Arkansas Gillett 1,000 Lincoln Gould 765 Lincoln Grady 560 Polk Hatfield 42 Monroe Holly Grove 868 Arkansas Humphrey 328 Union Huttig 668 Cleveland Kingsland 394 Madison Kingston 661 Phillips Lake View 1,054 Searcy Leslie 628 Lawrence Lynn 782 Columbia McNeil 329 Union Mount Holly 898 Newton Mount Judea 622 Izard Mount Pleasant 225 Johnson Oark 1,576 Montgomery Oden 671 Saline Paron 733 Yell Plainview-Rover 297 Franklin Pleasant View 679 Randolph Randolph County 444 Lawrence River Valley 106 Stone Rural Special 788 Searcy Saint Joe 727 Madison Saint Paul 123 Hempstead Saratoga 1,407 Van Buren Scotland 1,841 Dallas Sparkman 487 Ouachita Stephens 1 Stone Stone County 367 Jackson Swifton 458 Columbia Taylor 353 Howard Umpire 2,152 Union Union 45 Columbia Walker 819 Newton Western Grove 375 Cleburne Wilburn 978 Sharp Williford 475 Washington Winslow 494
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(b) Each school year, state financial aid in the form of isola
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-20-603
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 6-20-603. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.