Arkansas Code Title 6, Subtitle 2, Chapter 15, Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program Act
- § 6-15-401 - Title.
This subchapter shall be known as and may be cited as the "Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program Act".
- § 6-15-402 - Purpose.
(a) (1) (A) The purpose of this subchapter is to provide the statutory framework necessary to ensure that all students in the public schools...
- § 6-15-403 - Authority of State Board of Education.
(a) The State Board of Education through the Department of Education shall: (1) Develop a single comprehensive testing, assessment, and accountability program which utilizes...
- § 6-15-404 - Program Implementation.
(a) (1) The State Board of Education shall establish clear, specific, and challenging academic content standards which define what students shall know and be...
- § 6-15-405 - [Repealed.]
- § 6-15-406 - Assessment of Basic Skills.
The comprehensive testing, assessment, and accountability program to be developed by the Department of Education and approved by the State Board of Education shall...
- § 6-15-407 - Basic Competency Tests Generally.
(a) The "Arkansas Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program" means a system of measurement and reporting designed to ensure that all students in the...
- § 6-15-408 -- 6-15-413 - [Repealed.]
- § 6-15-414 - Testing Additional Grade Levels.
At the direction of the State Board of Education, the Department of Education shall cause assessment instruments to be administered at additional grade levels...
- § 6-15-415 - Public Availability of Test Instruments and Scores.
(a) Any material containing the identifiable scores of individual students on any test taken pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter shall not be...
- § 6-15-416 -- 6-15-418 - [Repealed.]
- § 6-15-419 - Definitions.
The following definitions shall apply in this subchapter and in § 6-15-2001 et seq., § 6-15-2101 et seq., §§ 6-15-2301, 6-15-2401, and 6-18-227: (1)...
- § 6-15-420 - Remediation and Intervention.
(a) In order for students to be academically prepared to achieve proficiency in English language arts and mathematics, the Department of Education shall require...
- § 6-15-421 - Awards and Sanctions.
(a) The Department of Education is authorized to develop and implement, contingent upon appropriation and funding being provided by the General Assembly, a program...
- § 6-15-422 - Comprehensive Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program Progress Report.
The Department of Education shall report to the members of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education on the progress...
- § 6-15-423 - [Repealed.]
- § 6-15-424 - Rules.
The State Board of Education shall establish rules as may be necessary to require the Department of Education to implement a program for identifying,...
- § 6-15-425 - School Improvement or Academic Distress.
A public school or school district identified by the Department of Education as failing to meet established levels of academic achievement shall be classified...
- § 6-15-426 - School Improvement.
(a) The State Board of Education shall develop a single comprehensive testing, assessment, and accountability program which shall identify and address all public schools...
- § 6-15-427 - School District Testing Programs.
(a) Each school district board of directors shall annually provide a written evaluation of student performance and achievement within each school of the school...
- § 6-15-428 - Academic Distress Identification, Notification, Classification, and Appeal.
(a) The school district board president and superintendent of a school district in which the school district or a public school is identified by...
- § 6-15-429 - Academic Distress -- Required Action.
(a) Except as provided under subdivision (b)(3)(B) of this section and § 6-15-430(d), a public school or school district identified as in "academic distress"...
- § 6-15-430 - State Board of Education Authority Over Public School or School District in Academic Distress.
(a) If a school district is classified as being in academic distress, the State Board of Education may: (1) Remove permanently, reassign, or suspend...
- § 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...
- § 6-15-432 - Unsafe School Choice Program.
(a) Any student that becomes the victim of a violent criminal offense while in or on the grounds of an Arkansas public elementary, secondary,...
- § 6-15-433 - Statewide Assessment Program.
(a) Upon approval by the State Board of Education or as required by law, the Department of Education shall implement a statewide program of...
- § 6-15-434 - School Testing Programs.
(a) Student performance data shall be analyzed and reported to parents, the community, and the state, provided such disclosures are not in conflict with...
- § 6-15-435 - Required Analyses.
The Department of Education shall provide, at a minimum, for the following analyses of data produced by the student achievement testing program: (1) The...
- § 6-15-436 - Local Assessments.
(a) School districts may elect to measure the learning gains of students in subjects and at grade levels in addition to those required for...
- § 6-15-437 - Rules.
The State Board of Education shall adopt any rules necessary to implement this subchapter under the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.
- § 6-15-438 - Test Security and Confidentiality.
(a) Violation of the security or confidential integrity of any test or assessment is prohibited.(b) (1) The State Board of Education shall sanction a...
- § 6-15-439 - Reporting of Assessment Scores for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts.
(a) The assessment scores under the Arkansas Comprehensive, Testing, Assessment, and Accountability Program for assessments taken by students attending the Arkansas School for Mathematics,...
- § 6-15-440 - Arkansas Leadership Academy School Support Program.
(a) (1) There is created the Arkansas Leadership Academy School Support Program through which the Arkansas Leadership Academy in collaboration with the Department of...
- § 6-15-441 - Arkansas College and Career Readiness Planning Program.
(a) As used in this section: (1) "College and career readiness" means the acquisition of the knowledge and skills a student needs to be...
Last modified: November 15, 2016