Bismarck School District will be accepting applications for our Dawson ABC Preschool Classroom starting March 1st. Click the link to register your child. Children must be 4 years old by August 1, 2022. If you have any questions, please call 870-246-1450.
COVID-19 GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOLS UPDATED: FEBRUARY 1, 2022
IMPORTANT LINKS
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH GUIDANCE
https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov//programs-services/topics/novel-coronavirus
DESE RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS
https://dese.ade.arkansas.gov/Offices/communications/arkansas-ready-for-learning
CDC GUIDANCE
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/quarantine-isolation.html
4 Day School Week Information
2022-23 Bismarck School Calendar *Board approved 01/24/2022
Click below to view document
BSD 4-Day School Week FAQ Document
Helpful links:
https://sites.google.com/view/four-day-school-week/home
https://education.seattlepi.com/advantages-four-day-school-week-1548.html
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-what-it-takes-to-make-a-4-day-school-week-work/2018/11
https://www.jhseonline.com/index.php/ruraled/article/view/529/507
SCHOOL CHOICE ANNOUNCEMENT
This is a public announcement. Public School Choice in Arkansas allows students to attend a public school in a district other than the one in which they reside. Applications for students in the following counties: Clark, Grant, Hot Spring, Pike, and Saline, (must be made by May 1, 2022 to qualify for provisions under the Arkansas Public School Choice Act of 2013.)
Pursuant to standards adopted by a non-resident school board, a non-resident district may reserve the right to accept and reject applicants based on capacity of programs, class, grade level, or school building. Likewise, a non-resident district’s standards may provide for the rejection of an applicant based upon the submission of false or misleading information to the above listed request for information when that information directly impacts the legal qualifications of an applicant to transfer pursuant to the School Choice Act. However, a non-resident district’s standards shall not include an applicant’s previous academic achievement, athletic or other extra-curricular ability, handicapping conditions, English proficiency level, or previous disciplinary proceedings, except that an expulsion from another district may be included pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. 6-18-510. Priority will be given to applicants with siblings attending the district. The non-resident district shall accept credits toward graduation that were awarded by another district and award a diploma to a non-resident applicant if the applicant meets the non-resident district’s graduation requirements. Applications must be postmarked or delivered to the Superintendent of Schools no later than May 1 for a child to be able to enroll for the fall semester. Transfers shall be granted on a non-discriminatory basis. Students who have been accepted and enrolled in previous years do not have to reapply as approved transfers remain valid for as long as the student attends that public school.
Superintendents of both school districts must be notified by the parent of their school choice request.
Click here for School Choice Information
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Deadline to submit to non-resident district: May 1, 2022 |