(a) To address the identified areas of fiscal distress of an education service cooperative, the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall:
(1)
(A) Conduct an on-site evaluation and make recommendations regarding the staffing and fiscal practices of the education service cooperative.
(B) The recommendations of the division are binding on the education service cooperative;
(2) Every six (6) months during which the education service cooperative is classified as being in fiscal distress, submit to the State Board of Education a written evaluation on the fiscal status of the education service cooperative;
(3) Monitor the fiscal operations and accounts of the education service cooperative; and
(4) Require the education service cooperative administrative staff and employees to obtain instruction or training in areas of fiscal concern for the education service cooperative.
(b) The division also may take one (1) or more of the following actions:
(1) Reorganize the administrative unit of the education service cooperative by:
(A)
(i) Removing and replacing the director of the education service cooperative employed under § 6-13-1010.
(ii) An individual appointed to replace the director shall administratively operate the education service cooperative under the supervision and approval of the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education.
(iii) The division may compensate non-division agents operating the education service cooperative from the education service cooperative's funding; and
(B) Removing, replacing, or reassigning other administrative staff of the education service cooperative; or
(2) Impose reporting requirements on the education service cooperative.
(c) Within two (2) consecutive school years of the state board's final classification of fiscal distress, the division shall determine whether to recommend that the education service cooperative be removed from fiscal distress status.
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