Superintendent contract requirements
Arkansas Code § 6-11-105; Arkansas Code § 6-17-123; Arkansas Code § 6-17-2804
(a) Each local school district board of directors shall establish, as part of a public school superintendent’s contract of employment, written performance targets for public schools at both the school level and the district level that include, without limitation, the following:
- (1) Student achievement for the entire public school district based on state-approved assessment or assessments;
(2) Student achievement for public schools within the public school district that have received any variation of a school performance letter grade designation of “C”, “D”, or “F” under:
- (A) Arkansas Code §§ 6-15-2105 and 6-15-2106; and
- (B) State Board of Education rules;
- (3) Graduation rates for the entire public school district; and
(4) Graduation rates for public schools within the public school district that have received any variation of a school performance letter grade designation of “C”, “D”, or “F” under:
- (A) Arkansas Code §§ 6-15-2105 and 6-15-2106; and
- (B) State board rules.
(b)
(1) Each local school district board of directors shall:
- (A) Publish the school district superintendent’s current contract of employment on the school district website; and
- (B) Submit to the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, by posting on the school district website, a copy of the current contract of employment of the school district superintendent.
- (2) For the 2023-2024 school year, contracts must be posted on the school district website no later than October 1, 2023.
- (3) In subsequent school years, contracts must be posted on the school district website no later than July 1.
- (c) A contract of employment executed, negotiated, or renegotiated after July 1, 2023, between a local school district board of directors and a superintendent that does not meet the requirements established in this part shall be null and void.