Arkansas Code
Subchapter 29 - Arkansas Educational Support and Accountability Act
§ 6-15-2914. School-level improvement plans — School district support plans

(a) The General Assembly finds that it is the responsibility of:
(1) The state to support its public school districts; and
(2) A public school district to support its schools.

(b)
(1)
(A) Beginning on May 1, 2018, and by May 1 annually thereafter, a public school shall submit to its public school district a school-level improvement plan for approval by the public school district and public school district board of directors for implementation in the following school year.
(B)
(i) A public school district and an open-enrollment public charter school shall include a literacy plan in the annual school-level improvement plan required under subdivision (b)(1)(A) of this section.
(ii) The literacy plan required under subdivision (b)(1)(B)(i) of this section shall include without limitation a curriculum program and a professional development program that are:
(a) Aligned with the literacy needs of the public school district; and
(b) Based on the science of reading as defined by § 6-17-429(k)(1).

(2) School-level improvement plans shall be posted on the public school district's website by August 1 of each year.

(c) School-level improvement plans shall be:
(1) Monitored by the public school district for implementation fidelity and progress throughout the year; and
(2) Evaluated annually by the public school district for goal progress and accomplishment.

(d)
(1) Annually by September 1, a public school district receiving Level 2 — Collaborative, Level 3 — Coordinated, Level 4 — Directed, or Level 5 — Intensive support shall submit to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education a public school district support plan in accordance with rules of the State Board of Education.
(2) A public school district's support plan shall be posted on the public school district's website no later than ten (10) days after submission to the division.
(3)
(A) A public school district in which forty percent (40%) or more of the public school district's students scored “in need of support” on the state's prior year summative assessment for reading shall develop a literacy plan as part of the public school district support plan required under this section.
(B) The public school district literacy plan shall include:
(i) Goals for improving reading achievement throughout the public school district; and
(ii) Information regarding the prioritization of funding, including without limitation Enhanced Student Achievement Funding received under § 6-20-2305, for strategies to improve reading achievement throughout the public school district.

(e) Public school district support plans shall include without limitation the support the public school district will provide to public schools identified as in need of targeted or comprehensive support, or both, pursuant to 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.