{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-16-203","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 6-16-203","heading":"Readiness testing","body":"(a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall develop guidelines for school districts to perform readiness testing for children who are entering kindergarten. (b) (1) After the division develops guidelines under subsection (a) of this section, each school district in the state shall conduct individual readiness testing on each child entering kindergarten and provide the results of the testing to the child's parents in a timely manner before the child's first day of school. (2) The results of the testing that are provided to parents shall indicate in clear, understandable terminology the child's readiness for entering kindergarten. Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 1330, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 2001, No. 1552, § 1.\n\n(a) The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education shall develop guidelines for school districts to perform readiness testing for children who are entering kindergarten.\n\n(b) (1) After the division develops guidelines under subsection (a) of this section, each school district in the state shall conduct individual readiness testing on each child entering kindergarten and provide the results of the testing to the child's parents in a timely manner before the child's first day of school. (2) The results of the testing that are provided to parents shall indicate in clear, understandable terminology the child's readiness for entering kindergarten.\n\n(1) After the division develops guidelines under subsection (a) of this section, each school district in the state shall conduct individual readiness testing on each child entering kindergarten and provide the results of the testing to the child's parents in a timely manner before the child's first day of school.\n\n(2) The results of the testing that are provided to parents shall indicate in clear, understandable terminology the child's readiness for entering kindergarten.","path":["AR Code","Title 6","Chapter 16","Subchapter 2"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"f42bb298369ebcb0fbd74802d243d914b988e9d3967a02abd75847771d43fbf9","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-16-201","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-16-301","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}