2015 Arkansas Code
Title 6 - Education
Subtitle 2 - Elementary And Secondary Education Generally
Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally
Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program Act
§ 6-15-431 - Academic distress rules and regulations.

(a) The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules and regulations as necessary to identify, evaluate, assist, and address public schools and school districts determined to be in academic distress.

(b) The academic distress rules and regulations shall be incorporated as part of the Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program rules and regulations.

(c) The state board may adopt by rule, criteria that permit the following entities to be exempt from the identification and classification of academic distress:

(1) A public school that is designated solely as an alternative learning environment;

(2) An open-enrollment public charter school whose mission and enrollment are primarily focused on students who have dropped out of high school or are identified as at risk of dropping out of school;

(3) A conversion public charter school whose mission and enrollment are primarily focused on students who have dropped out of high school or are identified as at risk of dropping out of school;

(4) The Arkansas School for the Blind; and

(5) The Arkansas School for the Deaf.

(d) The criteria adopted by the state board under subsection (c) of this section shall include the method to measure student academic performance for a student who attends an entity identified under subsection (c) of this section to meet the requirements of state or federal law or regulation.