(a) Education service cooperatives shall be established when seventy-five percent (75%) of the school districts in a proposed education service cooperative area request such action by formal resolutions filed by the school district boards of directors with the Commissioner of Education.
(b) Each resolution shall, in addition to requesting establishment of an education service cooperative, indicate by name or position that school district's representative on the board of directors of the proposed education service cooperative.
(c) Requests must be filed by seventy-five percent (75%) of the school district boards of directors by May 1 if an education service cooperative is to be established for the following school year.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally
Subchapter 10 - The Education Service Cooperative Act of 1985
§ 6-13-1002. Education service cooperatives established — Functions
§ 6-13-1003. Boundaries — Adjustments
§ 6-13-1004. Requests for establishment of education service cooperative — Requirements
§ 6-13-1005. Alteration of boundaries
§ 6-13-1006. Board of directors
§ 6-13-1007. Executive committee
§ 6-13-1008. Teacher center — Teacher center committee
§ 6-13-1009. Cooperative committees generally
§ 6-13-1011. Personnel generally
§ 6-13-1013. Policies and rules
§ 6-13-1014. Sharing and coordination of activities — Liaison
§ 6-13-1015. Liaison with postsecondary institutions
§ 6-13-1016. Annual surveys and needs assessments
§ 6-13-1017. Programs and services
§ 6-13-1018. Participation of local school districts — Contracts
§ 6-13-1019. Funding of education service cooperatives
§ 6-13-1020. Policies and procedures — Expenditures, reports, and audits
§ 6-13-1021. Evaluations — Performance rating
§ 6-13-1022. Dissolution of education service cooperative
§ 6-13-1023. Technology training center — Technology coordinator
§ 6-13-1025. Mathematics and science resource center — Mathematics and science coordinator
§ 6-13-1026. Cooperatives qualify as local education agencies
§ 6-13-1027. Fiscal distress — Definitions
§ 6-13-1028. Fiscal distress plan
§ 6-13-1029. Fiscal distress actions