§ 6-1-303 - Duties. - Arkansas Statutes

6-1-303. Duties.

(a) The Arkansas Commission for Coordination of Educational Efforts shall study and recommend policies related to the improvement of coordination among the levels of education from prekindergarten to the graduate level.

(b) (1) The commission shall give priority to improvements benefiting students at all levels of education in Arkansas.

(2) The commission shall work to benefit the State of Arkansas and improve the economy of the state by recommending a more efficient system of education.

(c) The commission shall:

(1) Recommend policies on concurrent enrollment of high school students in college courses;

(2) Make recommendations related to a common calendar for all public schools and institutions of higher education;

(3) Study the various delivery systems of distance learning and recommend ways to improve and make more efficient a delivery system for Arkansas;

(4) Recommend ways that the public schools, the Department of Education, the Department of Higher Education, and the institutions of higher education can improve working relationships in order to improve the effectiveness of teaching for the public schools;

(5) (A) Recommend ways of improving the transfer of credit from institution to institution for the benefit of the student.

(B) The transfer of credit includes recommendations for improving the transfer from two-year institutions to four-year institutions as well as the transfer among two-year institutions and four-year institutions;

(6) Make recommendations related to aligning the curriculum from kindergarten through the bachelor's degree level in colleges and universities;

(7) Recommend ways of improving the link between educational efforts and economic development for Arkansas;

(8) Recommend priorities for the funding of education;

(9) Review all current scholarship programs of the state and institutions of higher education and make recommendations for improving future scholarship programs;

(10) Make recommendations related to the future need for remediation of beginning college students;

(11) Make recommendations to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education from kindergarten through the bachelor's degree level in higher education;

(12) Make recommendations to improve the use of educational technology; and

(13) Recommend any other improvements in education at any level to benefit students and the state.