2016 Arkansas Code
Title 6 - Education
Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally
Chapter 15 - Educational Standards and Quality Generally
Subchapter 16 - -- Commission on Closing the Achievement Gap in Arkansas
§ 6-15-1602. Students who have been placed at risk of academic failure -- Personal education plans

(a) (1) Local school districts shall identify students in all grades who have been placed at risk of academic failure and shall implement a personal education plan for academic improvement with focused intervention and performance benchmarks.

(2) Identification shall occur as early as can reasonably be done and can be based on grades, observations, and other factors that teachers and administrators consider appropriate without having to await the results of end-of-grade or end-of-course tests.

(b) (1) At the beginning of the school year, a personal education plan shall be developed for any student not performing at least at grade level, as identified by the state end-of-grade test.

(2) If a student's performance appears to be falling below state proficiency standards at any time during the school year, a personal education plan shall be developed.

(c) Focused intervention and acceleration activities may include, among other things, summer school, Saturday school, and extended days.

(d) Local school districts shall provide the activities identified in subsection (c) of this section, and transportation, free of charge to students.