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Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-48-101. Definitions

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

As used in this chapter:

(1)(A)(i) “Alternative learning environment” means an alternate class or program within a public school or school district that affords all students an environment that seeks to eliminate barriers to learning for any student whose academic and social progress is negatively affected by the student's personal characteristics or situation.

(ii) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall by rule more fully define the student's personal characteristics and situations applicable under this chapter.

(B) An alternative learning environment is not a punitive environment but one that is conducive to learning.

(C) An alternative learning environment is not a separate school for the purposes of this title even if the division assigns the alternative learning environment a separate local education agency number; and

(2) “Intervention services” means activities within or outside a school that will eliminate traditional barriers to learning.

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