Arkansas Code
Title 6 - Education
Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs

§ 6-41-104. Services for children determined in another state to be eligible for services due to behavioral disability - (a) This section applies to a child who: (1) Enrolls...

Subchapter 2 - Children with Disabilities Act of 1973

§ 6-41-201. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Children With Disabilities...

§ 6-41-202. Purposes and applicability - (a) (1) It is the policy of this state to...

§ 6-41-203. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “A child with a...

§ 6-41-204. Least restrictive environment - (a) Each public agency shall ensure that: (1) To the...

§ 6-41-205. Provision for education - (a) The state shall make available a free appropriate public...

§ 6-41-206. Responsibilities of state and school districts - (a) (1) The responsibility of school districts and the state...

§ 6-41-207. Duties of the State Board of Education - (a) The State Board of Education is empowered to initiate,...

§ 6-41-208. Contracts for services - (a) The State Board of Education is granted authorization to...

§ 6-41-209. Cooperation among state agencies - The State Board of Education is granted authority to and...

§ 6-41-210. Special Education Unit for children with disabilities - (a) There is established in the Division of Elementary and...

§ 6-41-211. Advisory Council for the Education of Children with Disabilities - (a) (1) There shall be an Advisory Council for the...

§ 6-41-212. Facilities - (a) Physical aspects and specifications for buildings, classrooms, and other...

§ 6-41-214. Eligibility - Specific eligibility requirements for admission to these special services shall...

§ 6-41-215. Tests and examinations — Evaluation of child - (a) Every school district shall test and examine, or cause...

§ 6-41-216. Tests and evaluations — Change of child's status — Hearings - (a) All decisions pertaining to change in the educational status...

§ 6-41-217. Individualized education program — Definition - (a) Before any action is taken with respect to the...

§ 6-41-218. Tests and evaluations — Records - (a) Every public school district shall make and keep current...

§ 6-41-220. Equality in expenditure - (a) (1) It is the responsibility of school districts to...

§ 6-41-221. Receipt and disbursement of federal funds - (a) (1) The State Board of Education is designated as...

§ 6-41-223. Reports - Each school district shall report annually to the State Board...

Subchapter 3 - Special Education Programs Generally

§ 6-41-312. Reports - (a) Public school districts and entities receiving state or federal...

§ 6-41-313. Contracts for services pursuant to federal law - (a) The State Board of Education is authorized to contract...

Subchapter 4 - Improvement of Educational Services for Visually Impaired Students

§ 6-41-401. Legislative findings - The General Assembly finds that proficiency in braille reading and...

§ 6-41-402. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Compliance citation” means a...

§ 6-41-403. Assessment of student progress - (a) Each school district shall ensure that at least one...

§ 6-41-404. Braille instruction - Each student who needs braille reading and writing instruction shall...

§ 6-41-405. Electronic textbooks - (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall have...

§ 6-41-406. Compliance required - Failure of a school district to come into compliance with...

§ 6-41-407. Accommodation for students with sensory processing difficulty - When administering a state-mandated assessment or a state-mandated test, the...

Subchapter 6 - Dyslexia and Related Disorders

§ 6-41-601. Findings - The General Assembly finds that: (1) Dyslexia, if not diagnosed...

§ 6-41-602. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Dyslexia” means a specific...

§ 6-41-603. Required screening and intervention - (a) (1) A school district shall screen each student in...

§ 6-41-604. Level II dyslexia screening and services — Parental notification - (a) If a student's performance on an initial screener, level...

§ 6-41-605. Instructional approaches - (a) Dyslexia intervention for a student whose dyslexia level I...

§ 6-41-606. Reporting by school district - (a) The superintendent of a school district annually shall report...

§ 6-41-607. Dyslexia specialist - (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall employ...

§ 6-41-608. Dyslexia professional awareness - (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall ensure...

§ 6-41-609. Dyslexia and related disorder education in teacher preparation programs - The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall collaborate with...

§ 6-41-610. Rules — Dyslexia resource guide - (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall adopt...

§ 6-41-611. Enforcement — Rules - (a) (1) A public school district that fails to comply...

Subchapter 7 - Building Better Futures Program

§ 6-41-701. Program established — Purpose - (a) The Building Better Futures Program is established. (b) The...

§ 6-41-702. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Approved institution” means a...

§ 6-41-703. Eligibility - To be eligible for selective admission into a Building Better...

§ 6-41-704. Program information - A Building Better Futures Program implemented by an approved institution...

§ 6-41-705. Responsibilities - (a) (1) An institution of higher education that wishes to...

Subchapter 8 - Building Better Futures High School Program

§ 6-41-801. Program established — Purpose - (a) There is established a Building Better Futures High School...

§ 6-41-802. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Approved institution” means a...

§ 6-41-803. Eligibility - To be eligible for selective admission into a Building Better...

§ 6-41-804. Program information - A Building Better Futures High School Program implemented by an...

§ 6-41-805. Responsibilities - (a) (1) An institution of higher education that wishes to...

Subchapter 9 - Succeed Scholarship Program

§ 6-41-901. Definitions — Establishment — Intent - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Foster care” means...

§ 6-41-902. Student eligibility - (a) A parent or legal guardian of a public school...

§ 6-41-903. Private school eligibility - (a) (1) A private school shall notify the Division of...

§ 6-41-904. Responsibilities of scholarship recipients - (a) The parent or legal guardian of a Succeed Scholarship...

§ 6-41-905. Scholarship payments — Funding - (a) The maximum scholarship available under the Succeed Scholarship Program...

§ 6-41-906. Rules and duties - (a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules and...

§ 6-41-907. Autonomy of participating schools - (a) A private school that participates in the Succeed Scholarship...

§ 6-41-908. Succeed scholarship biennial study - (a) The House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee...

Chapter 42 - Gifted and Talented Children

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 6-42-101. Policy - It is the policy of this state to assist school...

§ 6-42-102. Rules — Reports - The State Board of Education shall have the authority to...

§ 6-42-103. Office for the Education of Gifted and Talented Children - To implement the policy stated in § 6-42-101, there is...

§ 6-42-104. Advisory Council for the Education of Gifted and Talented Children - (a) (1) There is established an Advisory Council for the...

§ 6-42-105. Disbursing agency - The Department of Education is designated as the state agency...

§ 6-42-106. Gifted and talented programs — Funding and eligibility - (a) (1) Appropriations made by the General Assembly to the...

§ 6-42-107. Cooperation with other agencies - The State Board of Education is authorized to cooperate with...

§ 6-42-108. Summer residential and day programs - (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education is authorized...

§ 6-42-109. Reports by school districts - Each school district shall report annually to the Division of...

Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts

§ 6-42-301. Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts - (a) The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas...

§ 6-42-302. Purpose — Location — Funding — Tuition - (a) The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts...

§ 6-42-303. Board of Visitors - (a) (1) There is established a Board of Visitors for...

§ 6-42-304. Board of Visitors — Purposes - (a) (1) (A) The general purpose of the Board of...

§ 6-42-305. Administrator — Staff - (a) (1) The Administrator of the Arkansas School for Mathematics,...

§ 6-42-306. Division of Elementary and Secondary Education rules - All Division of Elementary and Secondary Education rules shall apply...

§ 6-42-307. School for Math, Sciences, and Arts Fund - (a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer...

§ 6-42-308. School qualifies as local education agency - (a) The General Assembly designates that the Arkansas School for...

§ 6-42-309. Charter school option - (a) The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas...

§ 6-42-310. School district access provided to the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts - Upon a written request made by the Arkansas School for...

Chapter 43 - Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 6-43-101. Board of trustees - (a) There is created an honorary board constituting the Board...

§ 6-43-102. Powers and duties of board - (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for...

§ 6-43-103. Superintendents - (a) The immediate conduct and management of the Arkansas School...

§ 6-43-104. Employees generally - (a) The superintendents shall have power to select and engage...

§ 6-43-105. Attendance — Enforcement - (a) Every parent, guardian, or other person having control of...

§ 6-43-106. Deaf and blind children — Out-of-state facilities - (a) The Arkansas School for the Blind is authorized to...

§ 6-43-107. Application for admission — Certificate of residence - Whenever application is made for the admission of any blind...

§ 6-43-108. Removal of pupils - (a) (1) Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the...

§ 6-43-109. Clothing and traveling expenses — Generally - (a) When such persons, upon proper application, are admitted as...

§ 6-43-110. Clothing and travel expenses — Warrants - (a) It shall be the duty of the sheriffs of...

§ 6-43-111. Funeral expenses - In case of the death of any pupil at either...

§ 6-43-112. Transportation of students - The Arkansas School for the Deaf and the Arkansas School...

§ 6-43-113. Compensation limitation - (a) No employee drawing a salary or other form of...

§ 6-43-114. Applicability of § 21-8-304 - Section 21-8-304 relating to nepotism, ethics, or conflicts of interest...

§ 6-43-116. Special allowance - (a) The Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas...

§ 6-43-117. Dual position occupancy - The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the...

Subchapter 2 - Arkansas School for the Blind

§ 6-43-201. Board of trustees — Eligibility - The superintendent, general business manager, and teachers of the Arkansas...

§ 6-43-202. Records of board's proceedings - The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the...

§ 6-43-203. Rules - The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the...

§ 6-43-204. General control of property and institutional affairs - The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the...

§ 6-43-205. Real and personal property - (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for...

§ 6-43-206. Materials and supplies - No trustee shall be allowed to furnish material for building...

§ 6-43-207. Approval of building expenditures - No expenditures for building purposes shall be made for the...

§ 6-43-208. Superintendent - (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for...

§ 6-43-209. General business manager - (a) The general business manager, before entering upon the duties...

§ 6-43-210. Performance of duties by employees - (a) The teachers, officers, and employees shall perform such other...

§ 6-43-211. Qualifications of teachers - No teacher shall be employed in the Arkansas School for...

§ 6-43-212. Employment of operatives to make repairs and cultivate grounds - The Superintendent of the Arkansas School for the Blind may...

§ 6-43-213. Salaries - (a) (1) The salary of any person connected with the...

§ 6-43-214. Admissions - (a) All blind persons of suitable character and capacity between...

§ 6-43-215. Expulsions - The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the...

§ 6-43-216. Use of buildings during vacation period - (a) No person, teacher, party, servant, or employee shall be...

§ 6-43-217. Sale of articles made by students - The funds arising from the sale of articles made at...

§ 6-43-218. Financial aid to graduates attending postsecondary educational institutions - (a) (1) Any graduate of the Arkansas School for the...

§ 6-43-219. Sacred Scriptures and copy of United States Constitution presented to blind pupils - The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the...

§ 6-43-220. Records of purchasing agent - (a) (1) The purchasing agent shall keep a full and...

§ 6-43-221. Report of school officers - The officers of the Arkansas School for the Blind shall...

§ 6-43-222. Record of allowances — Statement of expenditures - (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for...

§ 6-43-223. Reports — Publication - (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for...

Subchapter 3 - Arkansas School for the Deaf

§ 6-43-301. Establishment - An institute of learning is established in the State of...

§ 6-43-302. Real and personal property - (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for...

§ 6-43-303. Rent, construction, or repair of facilities - The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for the...

§ 6-43-304. Action for trespass or other wrongs brought by state - For all damages for trespass and other wrongs upon the...

§ 6-43-305. Teachers generally - (a) The Arkansas School for the Deaf is hereby authorized...

§ 6-43-306. Duties of teachers and employees - (a) The teachers, officers, and employees shall perform such other...

§ 6-43-307. Limitations on salary increases - The salary of any person connected with the Arkansas School...

§ 6-43-308. Custodian of funds — Payment of bills, warrants, etc - (a) The Treasurer of State, in consultation with the Secretary...

§ 6-43-309. Accounts and records — Reports - (a) The accounts and records of the Arkansas School for...

§ 6-43-310. Records of secretary and purchasing agent - (a) (1) The secretary and purchasing agent shall keep a...

§ 6-43-311. Biennial reports - (a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas School for...

§ 6-43-315. List of applications in numerical order - The Superintendent of the Arkansas School for the Deaf is...

§ 6-43-316. Length of time students may remain - (a) Any hearing-impaired person who may be admitted into the...

§ 6-43-317. Boarding and lodging - (a) (1) It shall be the duty of the Superintendent...

§ 6-43-318. Aid to deaf students at college - When the county judge of any county has certified that...

§ 6-43-319. Cruel or severe punishment forbidden - There shall be no cruel or severe punishment inflicted upon...

§ 6-43-320. Shift differential - For the Arkansas School for the Deaf, shift work must...

§ 6-43-321. Maintenance, transportation, and security for Arkansas School for the Blind - (a) The Arkansas School for the Deaf shall be responsible...

Chapter 45 - Arkansas Better Chance Program Act

§ 6-45-101. Title - The title of this chapter shall be the "Arkansas Better...

§ 6-45-102. Legislative intent - It is the intent of the General Assembly to expand...

§ 6-45-103. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Appropriate early childhood program”...

§ 6-45-104. Construction - (a) (1) Except as required under subdivision (a)(2) of this...

§ 6-45-105. Establishment of Arkansas Better Chance Program - (a) (1) (A) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education...

§ 6-45-106. Application process — Allocation of funding - (a) (1) (A) (i) Any early childhood program accredited and...

§ 6-45-107. Publication of funding availability and program criteria - The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall annually provide...

§ 6-45-108. Criteria for determining need - (a) (1) All children three (3) years of age and...

§ 6-45-109. Certification by Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education - (a) The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education...

§ 6-45-110. Assessment - (a) (1) The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood...

§ 6-45-111. Early childhood program assessments - (a) The Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education...

Chapter 47 - Distance Learning

Subchapter 2 - Distance Learning Coordination

§ 6-47-201. Administration in elementary schools - (a) The Department of Education shall oversee and coordinate the...

§ 6-47-202. Administration in two-year colleges - (a) The Division of Higher Education shall oversee and coordinate...

§ 6-47-203. Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and Division of Higher Education — Cooperation, report, and implementation - (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and the...

Subchapter 3 - Distance Learning Implementation

§ 6-47-301. Intent - It is the intent of the General Assembly that the...

§ 6-47-302. Implementation in elementary and secondary schools — Courses offered - (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall plan...

§ 6-47-303. Coordination at institutions of higher education - The Division of Higher Education shall coordinate the implementation of...

§ 6-47-304. Division of Career and Technical Education to cooperate with Division of Elementary and Secondary Education and Division of Higher Education - The Division of Career and Technical Education shall cooperate with...

Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Distance Learning Development Project Act of 2003

§ 6-47-401. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 6-47-402. Purpose - (a) The purpose of this subchapter is to provide for...

§ 6-47-403. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Board” means the State...

§ 6-47-404. Establishment and implementation - (a) There is established the Arkansas Distance Learning Development Program,...

§ 6-47-405. Rules - The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules necessary for...

§ 6-47-406. Public school district and charter school distance learning program - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

Subchapter 5 - Distance Learning Grants

§ 6-47-501. Purpose - (a) It is the purpose of this subchapter to make...

§ 6-47-502. Distance learning grants - (a) (1) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall...

§ 6-47-503. Distance learning consortiums - School districts shall form collaborative efforts with other schools or...

§ 6-47-504. Effect on teachers - A teacher who is under contract in a school district...

Chapter 48 - Alternative Learning Environments

§ 6-48-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) (A) (i) “Alternative learning...

§ 6-48-102. Alternative learning environment required — Reporting - (a) (1) A school district shall provide one (1) or...

§ 6-48-103. Assessment and intervention services - (a) An alternative learning environment shall: (1) Assess a student...

§ 6-48-104. Division of Elementary and Secondary Education responsibilities - (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall promulgate...

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Arkansas Code Title 6 - Education Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs

Arkansas Code
Title 6 - Education
Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs