Representative James Ratliff
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Committees
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Recent Meetings
| Date | Committee | Speaking Time |
|---|---|---|
| March 13, 2013 | — | 39s |
| March 8, 2013 | — | 24s |
| March 8, 2013 | — | 55s |
| March 5, 2013 | — | 38s |
| Feb. 19, 2013 | — | 18s |
| Feb. 14, 2013 | — | 22s |
| Feb. 11, 2013 | — | 18s |
| Feb. 7, 2013 | — | 50s |
| Feb. 5, 2013 | — | 256s |
| Jan. 29, 2013 | — | 244s |
| March 29, 2011 | — | 21s |
| March 25, 2011 | — | 11s |
| Feb. 14, 2011 | — | 20s |
| Feb. 2, 2011 | — | 19s |
| Feb. 1, 2011 | — | 23s |
Recent Transcript Excerpts
And what this will do, it will save the school 46 cents a student, and it will save every school district in the state some money. Thank you.
Speaker. All this little bill does here is they're duplicating services. They're sending us to their handbook home with all the course offerings in it.
right now, 46 cents a student in their district. And if you heard the news yesterday, it could go up to $1.08 per letter. But anyway, we're going to do that. There's no physical impact on the state treasurer, but there will be a physical impact on the school saving all those stamps, mailing that home. That's all this little bill does.
sir. Okay. Chair and committee, I've got a small bill here that's House Bill 1230, and it's going to amend the requirements for school reporting district course offerings for other purposes. And what we're going to do is we're trying to amend this law to, it said after 20 days in the school year, they had to mail a course offering home to each parent. And what this is going to do is it's going to save the schools,
Well, I can't go back and sue for that. So I'm saying let's look forward in education, not back behind us. Let's move these schools ahead and keep it going. Thank
folks, I want to just take a few minutes to tell you that one thing we've got to realize about our system is we have a two-year legislative session every two years. And if we look back at every law that we've changed all the way back to 1935, you know, and they're worried about getting sued, you know, I got a ticket one time for going 60 in a 50. Well, now you can drive 70.
being counted? I think so, in my opinion. And where we're from, the co-op tests those kids, and they do the intercourse test. They do all the same tests all the other kids do, and their scores are added in to the public school to get their final scores. Thanks. Appreciate it.
There's one school in my district that's got like 364 right now. And, you know, the job situation, the economic impact in our area, That could drop below 350, and then they would be into the school consolidation point at that area. And this district's already 300 square miles. They've already got kids riding the bus two hours and 15 minutes a day. It's a pretty serious situation. Do you
or they may have meant to not include the homeschoolers. I don't know. So
So I guess back when they said that in the Lakeview case that, you know, they may have overlooked that or something along that line,
do is on this 350, you take your average daily attendance and say if
funding attached to it at all. Okay. No physical impact at all for the state at all. Okay. Thank
I wish we could. That would probably improve the graduation rates for all the school
those kind of things? Well, the way I understand that, when you're a homeschooler, I don't know if the school gets credit for those when they graduate or not, but in federal funding, it wouldn't be on your average daily
Or if they come in and play sports, they get one, you know, whatever
like, if a student comes in and takes algebra and stays one period a day, if it's eight period a day, they get one-eighth for that student.
formula? It is. But what we do on average daily attendance at the end, when you get to, say, you're at 340, you add the homeschoolers to that to get the final number.
over to the school district. It's up to the school district to fund those kids at $6,200 or $6,300 apiece at that point. So that's basically what this bill is going to do. It's going to shift it from the state back to the school district. And that's what I want everybody to realize. The state folks won't have to go in there and say, you're done, and go from there. And the school district will have to give up at that point when they
They have to go to the co-op and take tests. They have to go do all the things they have to do to equal them to do that. And by the way, I do have support of the homeschoolers 100% on this bill. What this will do, when they get down to 350, the administrative consolidation, it would allow the schools to count their homeschoolers at that point in number only. There is no fiscal impact due to there's no money involved in this bill. So all this thing is going to do is allow rural school to shift the burden from the state
a whole lot. You know, you've heard that story before. All this bill is going to do is these rural Arkansas out here guys is getting ruler and ruler, and these schools are getting smaller and smaller. And every school system has homeschoolers in it. And in our systems out here, our homeschoolers are accountable to the schools also.
Bills Discussed
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