(a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall identify an approved list of materials, resources, and curriculum programs for public school districts that are supported by the science of reading and based on instruction that is explicit, systematic, cumulative, and diagnostic, including without limitation:

1. (1) Evidence-based reading intervention programs;
2. (2) Evidence-based reading programs that are grounded in the science of reading; and

3. (3) Dyslexia programs that are evidence-based and:

   1. (A) Aligned to structured literacy; or
   2. (B) Grounded in Orton-Gillingham methodology.

(c)

1. (1) Any public school district, including an open-enrollment public charter school, that purchases a curriculum program shall choose a curriculum program from the division’s approved list of curriculum programs.

2. (2) A public school district that chooses to purchase a curriculum program that is not from the division’s approved list of curriculum programs shall submit the following information to the division for approval:

   1. (A) The rationale for choosing the alternative curriculum program;
   2. (B) Evidence-based research regarding the alternative curriculum program; and
   3. (C) A signed letter from the superintendent and school board president requesting approval of the alternative curriculum program.

3. (3) A public school district receiving Level 3 — Coordinated support, Level 4 — Directed support, or Level 5 — Intensive support for reading under Arkansas Code § 6-15-2913:

   1. (A) May only select an approved curriculum program from the list published pursuant to this subsection; and
   2. (B) May not choose an alternative curriculum program under subdivision (c)(2) of this section.
4. (4) The division shall publish the timeline for submission of requests for approval under subdivision (c)(2) by commissioner's memo.