2010 Arkansas Code
Title 6 - Education
Subtitle 3 - Special Educational Programs
Chapter 47 - Distance Learning
Subchapter 3 - Distance Learning Implementation
§ 6-47-302 - Implementation in elementary and secondary schools -- Courses offered.

6-47-302. Implementation in elementary and secondary schools -- Courses offered.

(a) The Department of Education shall plan for the statewide implementation of distance learning in elementary and secondary public schools in the state.

(b) (1) The elementary or secondary school may utilize courses from outside the state if the out-of-state course provider is approved by the Department of Education or the Department of Career Education before the school offers the courses through distance learning.

(2) A course offered through an approved out-of-state course provider under this subsection (b) shall follow Department of Education course frameworks.

(c) The courses offered through distance learning may include college preparatory courses, advanced mathematics and science courses, and technological courses.

(d) The Department of Education shall work with the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, the Arkansas Educational Television Commission, the education service cooperatives, the Arkansas State Library, and other state agencies involved in distance learning.