6 CAR § 61-108 – Enforcement of standards for accreditation

(a)
1. (1) The State Board of Education may, on its own motion or upon petition from the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, take any number of the following actions listed in subsection (c) of this section to address a public school or public school district that has failed to meet the standards for accreditation at any time after a public school or public school district has received notice of being placed in Probation status pursuant to 6 CAR § 61-106(d)(4).
2. (2) The division shall petition the state board for enforcement action as allowed by this part when a public school or public school district has failed to remedy all probationary violations within the specified time period for correction.
(b) The state board shall take at least one (1) of the actions listed in subsection (c) of this section to address any public school or public school district that is identified as Probation for failing to meet the standards for accreditation for two (2) consecutive school years, including the year the Probation status was issued, unless the state board at its discretion issues written findings supported by a majority of the state board that the public school or public school district could not meet the current standards in the required time period due to impossibility caused by external forces beyond the public school or public school district’s control.
(c) The state board shall be allowed to take the following actions to address any public school or public school district on Probation status for failing to meet the standards for accreditation:
1. (1) Require a public school district to reorganize, or to reassign the administrative, instructional, or support staff of a public school or public school district;
2. (2) Require a public school or public school district to institute and fully implement a curriculum that is aligned to the Arkansas academic standards, including providing appropriate professional development with the cost of the professional development to be covered by the public school district;
3. (3) Remove a particular public school from the jurisdiction of a public school district and establish alternative public governance and supervision of such school or schools;
4. (4) Require a public school district to close down or dissolve a particular public school or schools within a public school district;
5. (5) Annex a public school district or districts or parts thereof with another receiving public school district or districts pursuant to the authority of Arkansas Code § 6-13-1401 et seq.;
6. (6) Consolidate a public school district or districts or parts thereof with another public school district or districts or parts thereof to form a resulting district pursuant to the authority of Arkansas Code § 6-13-1401 et seq.;
7. (7)
  1. (A) Reconstitute the leadership of a public school district by removing permanently or suspending on a temporary basis:
(i) The superintendent of the public school district; or
1. (ii) Any particular board members of a public school district.
  1. (B) The state board shall have the authority to appoint an administrator or to call for the election of new school board members to administer the affairs and provide governance of the public school district, or both;
2. (8) Accept a corrective action plan to:
  1. (A) Address the violations of the standards for accreditation; and
  2. (B) Designate the public school or public school district as being Corrective Action; or
3. (9) Take any other appropriate action allowed by law that is determined by the state board to assist and address a public school or public school district failing to meet the standards for accreditation.