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6-21-804. Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program.
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6-21-804. Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program.
(a) The Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation shall develop a comprehensive Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program that includes the following components:
(1) An Academic Facilities Master Plan Program that establishes a process by which:
(A) Each school district develops and submits a facilities master plan for review and approval by the division; and
(B) The division develops a comprehensive state master plan for managing state financial participation in local academic facilities projects across the state;
(2) A Public School Facilities Custodial, Maintenance, Repair, and Renovation Manual that contains uniform standards to direct custodial, maintenance, repair, and renovation activities in public school facilities;
(3) A Public School Academic Facility Manual that contains uniform standards to guide the planning, design, and construction of new academic facilities and additions to existing academic facilities;
(4) A Public School Academic Equipment Manual that contains uniform standards for technology systems, instructional materials, and related academic equipment determined to be necessary for a public school to provide an adequate education as described in § 6-20-2302; and
(5) An Academic Facilities Distress Program to assist school districts that are unable to conserve and protect their academic facilities in accordance with this subchapter and rules adopted by the Commission for Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation.
(b) The commission shall promulgate rules necessary to administer the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program, all its component and related programs, and the provisions of this subchapter, which s
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-21-804
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6-21-804. Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program.
(a) The Division of Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation shall develop a comprehensive Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program that includes the following components:
(1) An Academic Facilities Master Plan Program that establishes a process by which:
(A) Each school district develops and submits a facilities master plan for review and approval by the division; and
(B) The division develops a comprehensive state master plan for managing state financial participation in local academic facilities projects across the state;
(2) A Public School Facilities Custodial, Maintenance, Repair, and Renovation Manual that contains uniform standards to direct custodial, maintenance, repair, and renovation activities in public school facilities;
(3) A Public School Academic Facility Manual that contains uniform standards to guide the planning, design, and construction of new academic facilities and additions to existing academic facilities;
(4) A Public School Academic Equipment Manual that contains uniform standards for technology systems, instructional materials, and related academic equipment determined to be necessary for a public school to provide an adequate education as described in § 6-20-2302; and
(5) An Academic Facilities Distress Program to assist school districts that are unable to conserve and protect their academic facilities in accordance with this subchapter and rules adopted by the Commission for Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation.
(b) The commission shall promulgate rules necessary to administer the Arkansas Public School Academic Facilities Program, all its component and related programs, and the provisions of this subchapter, which shall promote the intent and purposes of this subchapter and assure the prudent and resourceful expenditure of state funds with regard to public school academic facilities throughout the state.
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6-20-2302. Legislative findings.
(a) The General Assembly recognizes that:
(1) Intelligence and virtue are the safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government; and
(2) Arkansas Constitution, Article 14, § 1, requires the State of Arkansas to ever maintain a general, suitable, and efficient system of free public schools and to adopt all suitable means to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education.
(b) The General Assembly finds that because of the decision of the Supreme Court in Lake View School District No. 25 v. Huckabee, 351 Ark. 31 (2002), it is the absolute duty of the State of Arkansas to provide all public school children with an opportunity for an adequate education.
(c) The General Assembly finds that a suitable and efficient system of public education should:
(1) Assure the availability of substantially equal and constitutionally appropriate expenditures by the state for the education of each similarly situated child in the public schools, regardless of where that child resides within the state;
(2) Assure that each school-age child resides in a school district that offers a competitive minimum salary for classroom teachers;
(3) Assure that:
(A) All students graduating from high school are able to demonstrate a defined adequate level of competence in:
(i) English, oral communications, reading, and writing;
(ii) Mathematics skills; and
(iii) Science and social studies disciplines; and
(B) An adequate level of competence evolves over time to higher levels;
(4) Assure that students with disabilities have the opportunity to graduate from high school by demonstrating alternative competencies or alternative levels of competency;
(5) Assure that students who are not on track for high school gra
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 6-20-2302
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