Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-15-1502. Revisions--Compliance--Implementation

(a) The State Board of Education shall develop a comprehensive plan to review and revise the Arkansas Academic Content Standards and Curriculum Frameworks process.

(b) The plan shall be a comprehensive plan to provide an external review of content standards and curriculum frameworks adopted by the state in core academic areas of reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, geography, civics, and other courses identified by the State Board of Education as state-mandated graduation requirements.

(c) In developing the plan, the State Board of Education shall conduct a full review of available and relevant academic content standards and curriculum frameworks that are rigorous, specific, sequenced, clear, focused, and measurable, whenever possible.

(e) Upon completion of the review, the State Board of Education shall revise all curriculum frameworks and supplemental materials that are recommended as a result of the review.

(f) As part of the revision process, the State Board of Education shall revise and make available to teachers and parents support materials, including teacher and parent guides, for academic content standards and curriculum frameworks that are specifically recommended for revision as a result of the review.

(g) The State Board of Education shall work in collaboration with the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Executive Council to ensure that teacher and school administrator degree programs, ongoing professional development, and other university activity in the state's public schools align with the revised Arkansas Academic Content Standards and Curriculum Framework process and other educational priorities of the state.