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Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-2909

Public availability of test instruments and scores

Acts 2017, No. 930, § 2; 2019, No. 910, § 1300.

(1) Any material containing the personally identifiable information, including without limitation identifiable scores, of individual students on any test taken under the provisions of this subchapter shall not be: Considered a public record within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq.; or

(2) Disseminated or otherwise made available to the public by a member of the State Board of Education, an employee of the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education, a member of the board of directors of a school district, an employee of a school district, or any other person, except as permitted under the provisions of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, as it existed on January 1, 2017.

(3) All analyses, reports, and compilations of test scores that do not contain personally identifiable information are a public record within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., if the release complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, as it existed on January 1, 2017, and with the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, § 6-18-109.

(4) In order to protect the validity and reliability of statewide student assessments, the test instruments shall not be made available to the public.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.