(a) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules necessary to implement this subchapter pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.
(b) The state board may, by rules adopted under the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., and reviewed and approved under § 10-3-309, redesignate the levels of performance categories and improvement categories under this subchapter to be consistent with:
(1) The Common Core State Standards;
(2) Assessments that correlate with those standards; and
(3) Rules adopted under the requirements of a law enacted by Congress for general education, including without limitation the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Pub. L. No. 89-10, as reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 20 U.S.C. § 6301 et seq., or any supplementary federal regulations, directives, or decisions of the United States Department of Education pertaining to that legislation.
(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.
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