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6-20-602. Isolated schools — Definition.
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6-20-602. Isolated schools — Definition.
(a) “Isolated school” means a school within a school district that:
(1) Before administrative consolidation or annexation under this section, the Public Education Reorganization Act, § 6-13-1601 et seq., and § 6-13-1405(a)(5) [repealed] qualified as an isolated school district under § 6-20-601; and
(2) Is subject to administrative consolidation or annexation under this section, the Public Education Reorganization Act, § 6-13-1601 et seq., and § 6-13-1405(a)(5) [repealed].
(b) Any isolated school within a resulting or receiving district shall remain open unless the school district board of directors of the resulting or receiving district adopts a motion to close the isolated school or parts thereof by:
(1) Unanimous vote of the full board of directors; or
(2)(A) A majority vote of the full board of directors, but less than a unanimous vote, and the motion is considered by and approved by a majority vote of members of the State Board of Education.
(B)(i) Any school district board of directors seeking the state board's approval to close isolated schools or parts thereof under subdivision (b)(2)(A) of this section shall no less than thirty (30) days before a regularly scheduled state board meeting, request a hearing on the matter before the state board and file a petition to have the motion reviewed and approved by the state board.
(ii) The petition shall:
(a) Identify the specific isolated schools or part thereof that the local board of directors has moved to close;
(b) State all reasons that the isolated schools or part thereof should be closed;
(c) State how the closure will serve the best interests of the students in the district as a whole;
(d) State if the closure will have any negative impact on desegre
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-20-602
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6-20-602. Isolated schools — Definition.
(a) “Isolated school” means a school within a school district that:
(1) Before administrative consolidation or annexation under this section, the Public Education Reorganization Act, § 6-13-1601 et seq., and § 6-13-1405(a)(5) [repealed] qualified as an isolated school district under § 6-20-601; and
(2) Is subject to administrative consolidation or annexation under this section, the Public Education Reorganization Act, § 6-13-1601 et seq., and § 6-13-1405(a)(5) [repealed].
(b) Any isolated school within a resulting or receiving district shall remain open unless the school district board of directors of the resulting or receiving district adopts a motion to close the isolated school or parts thereof by:
(1) Unanimous vote of the full board of directors; or
(2)(A) A majority vote of the full board of directors, but less than a unanimous vote, and the motion is considered by and approved by a majority vote of members of the State Board of Education.
(B)(i) Any school district board of directors seeking the state board's approval to close isolated schools or parts thereof under subdivision (b)(2)(A) of this section shall no less than thirty (30) days before a regularly scheduled state board meeting, request a hearing on the matter before the state board and file a petition to have the motion reviewed and approved by the state board.
(ii) The petition shall:
(a) Identify the specific isolated schools or part thereof that the local board of directors has moved to close;
(b) State all reasons that the isolated schools or part thereof should be closed;
(c) State how the closure will serve the best interests of the students in the district as a whole;
(d) State if the closure will have any negative impact on desegregation efforts or violate any valid court order from a court of proper jurisdiction; and
(e) Have attached a copy of the final motion approving the closure by the local board of directors.
(C)(i) Upon receiving a petition for approval of a motion to close all or part of an isolated school under subdivision (b)(2)(A) of this section, the state board shall have the authority to review and approve or disapprove the petition.
(ii) The state board shall only approve a motion to close isolated schools or parts thereof under subdivision (b)(2)(A) of this section if the closure is in the best interest of the students in the school district as a whole.
(iii) The state board shall not close a school if the state board finds that the closure will have any negative impact on desegregation efforts or will violate any valid court order from a court of proper jurisdiction.
(D)(i) Except under subdivision (b)(2)(D)(ii) of this section, the state board shall not require the closure of all or part of an isolated school without a motion from the local board of directors as required under subdivision (b)(2)(A) of this section.
(ii) This section shall not be construed to restrict the authority of the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and the state board otherwise granted by law.
(c) Funding for isolated school districts shall be expended by the resulting or receiving district only on the operation, maintenance, and other expenses of the isolated schools within the resulting or receiving district.
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6-13-1405, 6-13-1406. [Repealed.]
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-13-1405
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6-13-1601. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Administrative annexation” means the joining of an affected district or a part of the school district with a receiving district;
(2) “Administrative consolidation” means the joining of two (2) or more school districts to create a new single school district with one (1) administrative unit and one (1) board of directors that is not required to close school facilities;
(3) “Affected district” means a school district that loses territory or students as a result of administrative annexation or administrative consolidation;
(4) “Average daily membership” has the same meaning as defined in § 6-20-2303;
(5) “Receiving district” means a school district or districts that receive territory or students, or both, from an affected district as a result of administrative annexation; and
(6) “Resulting district” means the new school district created from an affected district or affected districts as a result of administrative consolidation.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-13-1601
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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
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 6-20-601. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.