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Ark. Code Ann. § 6-23-106

Impact on school desegregation efforts

Known as the Arkansas Quality Charter Schools Act

The act spans §§ 6–6 (62 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Stevenson v. Blytheville School District # 5 (2015)

Most recently applied in Stevenson v. Blytheville School District # 5 (August 2015)

Acts 1999, No. 890, § 15; 2005, No. 2005, § 4; 2007, No. 736, § 4; 2013, No. 509, § 2.

(1) The applicants for a public charter school, the local school district board of directors for the district in which a proposed public charter school would be located, and the authorizer shall carefully review the potential impact of an application for a public charter school on the efforts of a public school district or public school districts to comply with court orders and statutory obligations to create and maintain a unitary system of desegregated public schools.

(2) The authorizer shall attempt to measure the likely impact of a proposed public charter school on the efforts of public school districts to achieve and maintain a unitary system.

(3) The authorizer shall not approve any public charter school under this chapter or any other act or any combination of acts that hampers, delays, or in any manner negatively affects the desegregation efforts of a public school district or public school districts in this state.

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.