A Summary of Arkansas Laws Dealing with Integration 2

Summary of Arkansas laws that impact public education integration in the state through 1960.- 2 - particular school and curriculum; the scholastic aptitude and intelligence or mental energy or ability of the pupil; the psychological qualitfication of the pupil for the type of teaching and associations involved; the effect of admission of the pupil upon the academic progress of other students in a particular school or facility thereof; the effect of admission upon prevailing academic standards at a particular school; the psychological effect upon the pupil of attendance at a particular school; the possiblity of breaches of the peace or ill will or economic retaliation within the conBtiunity; the home environment of the pupil; the maintenance or severance of established social and psychological relationships with other pupils and with teachers the choice and interests of the pupil; the morals, conduct, health and personal standards of the pupil; the request or consent of parents or guardians and the reasons assigned therefor. and other relevant matters. Pupils may by mutual agreement be assigned in adjoining districts, even in different counties, and school funds transferred to follow the pupil. Teachers may be reassigned or transferred by local Beards of Education. Parents may file objections to assignments of pupils or petitions for trasnfers with local Boards. Hearings may be requested. No child can be compelled to attend desegregated schools, if written objection is filed by parent. If transfer is refused, child may be entitled to aid for education under law. ACT 19 of 1559 Amends the act authorizing recall of^school board members to require the petition be signed by 25% (instead of 15%) of qualified electors residing the school district. The successor to a recalled school board member is named by the County Beard of Education (the members of which are elected). If a member of a school board resigns, his successor is named by the remain­ing members of the school board. ACT 207 of 1959 Provides that if school director incarcerated by court for failure to comply with racial integration order, the office of the director shall not become vacant on that account, and any action taken in his absence shall be void. The act places duty on sheriff to make arrangements for school board meetings at a place of director's confinement. ACT 248 of 1959 Sets the date for the annual school election. There is a conflict in the title of the bill and the body of the bill and probably an opinion of the Attorney General or a court will be needed to determine the valid date, but it would appear that it would be either on the first Tuesday in December as shown in the enactment clause, or the first Saturday in December a3 decreed by the old law