Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-17-124. Implicit bias training

(1) Require a school employee to complete or participate in implicit bias training; or

(2) Take adverse employment action against a school employee for the school employee's failure or refusal to complete or participate in implicit bias training.

(1) Obtaining or renewing an educator license; or

(2) Professional development.

(c)(1) A school employee may leave a training that the school employee is attending if the school employee determines that the training addresses implicit biases.

(2) A school employee who leaves a training under subdivision (c)(1) of this section shall have no recourse due to the school employee's exposure to training that the school employee determines addresses implicit biases.

(1) “Implicit bias training” means a training or educational program designed to expose an individual to biases that the training's or educational program's developer or designer presumes the individual to unconsciously or unintentionally possess that predispose the individual to be unfairly prejudiced in favor of or against a thing, person, or group to adjust the individual's pattern of thinking in order to eliminate the individual's unconscious or unintentional bias or prejudice; and

(2) “School” means: