Arkansas Code
Subchapter 29 - Arkansas Educational Support and Accountability Act
§ 6-15-2903. Definitions

As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Academic growth” means the calculation of a student's academic progress from one school year to the next, as measured by assessments and other criteria required by rule of the State Board of Education;
(2) “College and career readiness assessment” means a set of criterion-referenced measurements of a student's acquisition of the knowledge and skills that the student needs to:
(A) Be successful in future endeavors, including credit-bearing, first-year courses at an institution of higher education such as a two-year or four-year college, trade school, or technical school; or
(B) Embark on a career;

(3) “Consolidated state plan” means the Arkansas consolidated state application accountability plan required under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Pub. L. No. 89-10, as reauthorized by the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015, Pub. L. No. 114-95;
(4)
(A) “Educator” means a person holding a valid Arkansas standard teaching license, an ancillary license, a provisional license, a technical permit, or an administrator's license issued by the state board.
(B) “Educator” includes a licensed or nonlicensed classroom teacher or administrator employed in a position under a waiver from licensure;

(5) “English language arts” means the academic standards for English, reading, and writing;
(6) “English learner” means an individual whose native language is a language other than English or who comes from an environment where a language other than English has had a significant impact on the individual's level of English language proficiency;
(7) “Personally identifiable information” means the same as in 34 C.F.R. § 99.3, as it existed on January 1, 2017;
(8) “Public school” means:
(A) A school operated by a public school district; or
(B) An open-enrollment public charter school, as defined in § 6-23-103;

(9) “Public school district” means:
(A) A geographic area that:
(i) Is governed by an elected board of directors that conducts the daily affairs of public schools pursuant to the supervisory authority vested by this title; and
(ii) Qualifies as a taxing unit for purposes of ad valorem property taxes under § 26-1-101 et seq. and Arkansas Constitution, Article 14, § 3; or

(B) An open-enrollment public charter school, as defined in § 6-23-103;

(10) “School-level improvement plan” means a plan that at a minimum:
(A) Establishes goals or anticipated outcomes;
(B) Identifies student supports or interventions to be implemented; and
(C) Describes the professional learning necessary for adults to deliver the supports or interventions;

(11) “School district systems” means the operations and procedures that occur within a public school district, including without limitation:
(A) Academics;
(B) Facilities;
(C) Fiscal operations;
(D) Human capital management; and
(E) Student support services; and

(12) “Student success plan” means a personalized education plan intended to assist students with achieving readiness for college, career, and community engagement.