Arkansas Code Title 6, Subtitle 2, Chapter 10 - General Provisions

• § 6-10-101 - Title.
  This act shall be known as the "School Law".
• § 6-10-102 - Penalty.
  Any officer or employee of the State Board of Education or school district board of directors who shall willfully fail or refuse to comply...
• § 6-10-103 - Prosecutions and Fines.
  (a) Prosecutions under this act shall be brought in the name of the State of Arkansas before any court having competent jurisdiction.(b) Any fine...
• § 6-10-104 - Duty of Prosecuting Attorney.
  (a) It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of the State of Arkansas or their deputies in any county to prosecute the...
• § 6-10-105 - [Repealed.]
• § 6-10-106 - Uniform Dates for Beginning and End of School Year.
  (a) (1) (A) In each school year, the first day of the school year for student attendance in the public elementary and secondary schools...
• § 6-10-107 - Notice of Beginning of School Term.
  (a) At least ten (10) days before the beginning of the session of school, it shall be the duty of all school district boards...
• § 6-10-108 - Twelve-Month School Year.
  (a) It is found and determined by the General Assembly that public school facilities in the state are now effectively utilized only nine (9)...
• § 6-10-109 - Special Program for Training Parents of Students.
  (a) Local matching funds shall be required for the Parents As Teachers program.(b) (1) Only public school districts or education service cooperatives established under...
• § 6-10-110 - Fire Marshal Program.
  (a) The Department of Education is authorized and directed to cooperate with and assist local school districts in this state in the establishment of...
• § 6-10-111 - Equity Assistance Center.
  (a) The Department of Education is authorized to establish a special section within its organization, to be known as the Equity Assistance Center, designed...
• § 6-10-112 - Rent on Department of Education Buildings.
  (a) The various programs and departments of the Department of Education that are financed from state, federal, or cash funds are authorized to pay...
• § 6-10-113 - Eye Protection.
  (a) Every student and teacher in the public schools participating in any of the following courses is required to wear industrial-quality eye protective devices...
• § 6-10-114 - Unlawful to Discriminate -- Penalties.
  (a) (1) It shall be unlawful for any member of the board of directors, administrator, or employee of a public school to knowingly authorize...
• § 6-10-115 - Period of Silence.
  (a) A public school in this state shall observe a one (1) minute period of silence at the beginning of school each school day.(b)...
• § 6-10-116 - [Repealed.]
• § 6-10-117 - Four-Day School Week.
  (a) It is found and determined by the General Assembly that granting local school districts greater flexibility in scheduling instructional time can reap educational...
• § 6-10-118 - Information About the Availability of Arkids First.
  (a) The Department of Education shall cooperate with and assist local school districts in this state in the establishment of a program to inform...
• § 6-10-119 - Medicaid Billing.
  (a) (1) By May 1 of each year, the Special Education Section of the Department of Education shall determine which school districts are underperforming...
• § 6-10-120 - Adequate and Equitable Public Education System.
  The General Assembly finds: (1) It is the duty of the State of Arkansas to provide a general, suitable, and efficient system of free...
• § 6-10-121 - Tornado Safety Drills.
  (a) (1) As used in this section, "public school" means a school that is part of a public school district under the control and...
• § 6-10-122 - Automated External Defibrillators Required.
  (a) (1) The State Board of Education shall promulgate rules to require that: (A) Each school campus have an automated external defibrillator; (B) Appropriate...
• § 6-10-123 - School-Based Automated External Defibrillator and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Programs.
  (a) The State Board of Education, after consultation with the Department of Health, shall develop rules based on guidelines for automated external defibrillator and...
• § 6-10-124 - Updating of School Policies.
  (a) After each regular, fiscal, or special session of the General Assembly, the board of directors of each public school district in the state...
• § 6-10-125 - School District Floor Plan on File With Emergency Management Coordinator.
  (a) (1) As used in this section, "floor plan" means a document containing: (A) A schematic drawing of facilities and property used by each...
• § 6-10-126 - Emergency Inclement Weather Days.
  (a) A superintendent may delay the start time or release early a school or schools in the school district due to emergency inclement weather.(b)...
• § 6-10-127 - Making Up Missed School Days.
  If a superintendent cancels a regularly scheduled school day due to exceptional or emergency circumstances such as a contagious disease outbreak, inclement weather, or...
• § 6-10-128 - School Resource Officers.
  (a) A school district board of directors may accept from a local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction a school resource officer to assist with...
• § 6-10-129 - Efficiency in Reporting.
  (a) (1) (A) The Department of Education or the Department of Career Education may require a school district or public school to submit data...

Last modified: November 15, 2016