Reporting requirements
Effective Oct 13, 2025Ark. R. 2025-17 (eff. October 13, 2025)Arkansas Code § 6-18-1907; Arkansas Code § 6-18-227
- (a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall develop an annual report on student participation in public school choice and opportunity school choice and deliver the report to the State Board of Education, the Governor, the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Legislative Council at least sixty (60) days prior to the convening of the regular session of the General Assembly.
(b) The annual report shall include without limitation:
(1) The number of public school students participating in:
- (A) Public school choice under the Public School Choice Act of 2015, Arkansas Code § 6-18-1901 et seq.; and
- (B) Opportunity school choice under the Arkansas Opportunity Public School Choice Act, Arkansas Code § 6-18-227, disaggregated by whether the transfer was from within a public school district or outside a public school district; and
(2) Aggregate data of the race and gender of students participating in:
- (A) Public school choice; and
- (B) Opportunity school choice.
(c) Each public school district shall annually report to the division:
- (1) The number of students applying for a transfer, receiving a transfer, being denied a transfer, including the reason for each denial, to a nonresident school within the resident district under public school choice;
- (2) The number of students applying for a transfer, receiving a transfer, being denied a transfer, including the reason for each denial, to a nonresident district under public school choice;
- (3) The number of students applying for a transfer, receiving a transfer, being denied a transfer, including the reason for each denial, to a nonresident school within the resident district under opportunity school choice; and
- (4) The number of students applying for a transfer, receiving a transfer, being denied a transfer, including the reason for each denial, to a nonresident district under opportunity school choice.
- (d) The school district shall report the data required by subsection (c) of this section through its cycle reports as prescribed by the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education.
- (e) The data received under subsection (c) of this section shall be reported annually on the division website.