2016 Arkansas Code
Title 6 - Education
Subtitle 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education Generally
Chapter 18 - Students
Subchapter 10 - -- Public School Student Services Act
§ 6-18-1004. School district plan

(a) (1) Each school district shall develop and implement a plan that ensures that individual student services are coordinated in a manner utilizing such techniques as differentiated staffing so as to make maximum use of the contribution of each service.

(2) Only those trained and certified in the appropriate specialty or following a Department of Education's deficiency removal plan will be assigned to carry out the duties of each service.

(b) Each school district plan shall reflect the use of alternative methods of classroom management. Such methods may include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) Behavioral contracting;

(2) Dispute resolution;

(3) Classroom meetings;

(4) Logical consequences;

(5) Assertive discipline;

(6) Behavior modification; and

(7) Career and academic counseling.

(c) (1) Each school district plan shall provide for a district-level tracking system for school dropouts and for students who fail to reach proficiency on state-mandated assessments.

(2) The tracking system shall include provisions for student services personnel in all schools to conduct exit interviews of students who are dropping out of school and for follow-up of such students when possible.

(d) The superintendent of a school district not in substantial compliance with the terms of its plan may be requested to appear before the Senate Committee on Education and the House Committee on Education.