A Summary of Arkansas Laws Dealing with Integration 1

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: A Summary of Arkansas Laws Dealing with Integration 1
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1959
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: summaries
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Summary of Arkansas laws that impact public education integration in the state through 1960.
Integration -- Desegregation -- Civil Rights -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Laws -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
SUMMARY OF SOME OF THE ARKANSAS LAWS AFFECTING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SITUATION SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5 Proposes a Constitutional Amendment to provide for local option elections on how to use local and state money for education. It will allow each district to decide whether it wants a free public school system or to adopt a method of student assistance. It also contains a provision for school millage rates to revert either to the current rate or thirty mills, whichever Is lower, on the electorate^ disapproval of the millage proposed by the school board. This proposed amendment will be on the ballot In the general election of November I960. It could mean the complete destruction of the free public school system In the state, district by district. ACT 5 and (ACT 151 of 1959) Permits transfer of funds from one school district wherein schools are closed by order of the Governor to another school district or to non-profit private schools accredited by the state. Act 5 has been ruled unconstitutional by the U. S* District Court. (No appeal has been made yet to the U. S. Supreme Court. 7-1-59) ACT 46 of 1959 Provides for direct payment by the State Department of Education to individual students on a financial grant basis for use by student in obtaining instruction when the student is prevented from attending public school for any reason beyond his control. ACT 256 of 1959 States no person eligible to attend public school shall be required to attend with students of different race. When school normally attended becomes integrated, parent or guardian may apply to State Board of Education for tuition grants to pay instruction costs in any other,publie or accredited non-profit, non-sectarian private school. Sets up procedures for applying for aid and determining the amount of aid. ACT 84 of 1955 approved February 26, 1957 Provides "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no child in the State of Arkansas shall be required to enroll in or attend any school wherein both white and Negro children are enrolled”. ACT 461 of 1959 This is a lengthy and detailed pupil assignment bill, patterned after the Alabama Statute which recently was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. It can, however, be invalid as it is applied. Each local Board of Education, or the Superintendent if so authorized, shall assign pupils upon consideration of: "Available room and teaching capacity in the various schools; the availability of transportation facilities:the effect of the admission of new pupils upon established or proposed academic programs; the suitability of established curricula for articular nunlIsthe, adequacy of the pupils; the adequacy of the pupil's academic preparation for admission to a
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