Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-20-2302. Legislative findings

(1) Intelligence and virtue are the safeguards of liberty and the bulwark of a free and good government; and

(2) Arkansas Constitution, Article 14, § 1, requires the State of Arkansas to ever maintain a general, suitable, and efficient system of free public schools and to adopt all suitable means to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education.

(1) Assure the availability of substantially equal and constitutionally appropriate expenditures by the state for the education of each similarly situated child in the public schools, regardless of where that child resides within the state;

(2) Assure that each school-age child resides in a school district that offers a competitive minimum salary for classroom teachers;

(3) Assure that:

(4) Assure that students with disabilities have the opportunity to graduate from high school by demonstrating alternative competencies or alternative levels of competency;

(5) Assure that students who are not on track for high school graduation are identified at a sufficiently early date so that they may be provided an opportunity at a reasonable cost to achieve the minimum levels of competence necessary to graduate from high school;

(6) Recognize that graduating from high school requires that the students, as well as the parents or guardian of the students, work hard and assume appropriate responsibility for the students' success or failure;

(7) Encourage parental involvement in the public schools and in public school activities; and

(8) Recognize that early attention to and correction of student deficiencies are substantially less expensive and more effective than remedial efforts in the later school grades.