1.00 REGULATORY
AUTHORITY
1.01 These rules shall be known as
Arkansas Department of Education Rules Governing the Public Education Salvage
Computer Loan Program.
1.02 These
rules are enacted pursuant to the State Board of Education's authority under
Act 1673 of 2005.
2.00
PURPOSE
It is the purpose of these rules to set reasonable guidelines for the
implementation of the Public Education Salvage Computer Loan Program whereby
any public school district or open-enrollment charter school may develop a
program that offers the district's or charter school's surplus personal
computers for loan to public school students attending that public school
district or open-enrollment charter school.
3.00 DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of these rules:
3.01 "Personal Computer" is a computer that
is outdated, no longer useful to the school district or charter school except
as an at-home educational tool for students and has no reasonable resale
value.
4.00 Computer Loan
Procedures
4.01 A public school district or
open-enrollment charter school may loan a surplus personal computer to a
currently enrolled student of that school district or charter school for no
longer than the school year under the following conditions.
4.01.01 All information and other records
from the personal computer which are required by law not to be disclosed by the
school district or charter school are removed;
4.01.02 The student's parent, guardian, or
caregiver provides written verification that the student does not have access
to a personal computer in his or her home environment, needs the use of a
personal computer for educational purposes, and identifies one of the student's
teachers who is willing to attest to the student's need for access to a
personal computer.
4.01.03 The
student's parent, guardian, or caregiver signs an agreement accepting legal
responsibility and liability for the value and maintenance of the personal
computer while in the student's possession; and any reasonable cost associated
with the recovery of the personal computer if it is not returned on the
agreed-upon date or is damaged upon return.
4.01.04 The student's parent, guardian, or
caregiver signs an agreement agreeing that the school district or charter
school may sell the personal computer loaned to the student if the school
district or charter school determines that selling the computer would be
beneficial and the computer is sold for its fair market value.
5.00 Audit Process
The Division of Legislative Audit or any private auditor retained by
the public school district or open-enrollment charter school to perform its
annual audit shall review the program and report any violation of law or the
requirements of this section in the school district or charter school's annual
audit.
6.00 Board Policies
6.01 The local school board shall develop
policies necessary to implement the Public Education Salvage Computer Loan
Program including but not limited to the selection procedures used to determine
which students will receive computers in the event that more eligible students
request to participate in the program than there are available
computers.
