Arkansas
CurrentArkansas Code §6-16-152 / state graduation requirements
Requires Arkansas graduates to earn one credit in an approved computer-science or computer-science-related career and technical education course.
- Jurisdiction
- Arkansas · State / DC
- Policy status
- Effective
- Implementation phase
- Current
- Requirement
- Required
- Grades
- Requirement begins with 2026 graduates
- Audience
- Students
- Learning evidence
- Student instruction required
- Instrument
- Statute / enacted law
Dates & implementation
Adopted / approved
Mar 23, 2021
Applies to students entering grade 9 in 2022–23 and later; the first standard graduating cohort is 2026.
A legal effective date can precede school implementation. This record documents policy intent or requirements; it does not independently confirm delivery in every classroom.
Funding & support
Funding details not confirmed
Dedicated funding and current award availability are not established in this collection. This does not mean no funding exists.
Evidence & source location
Graduation requirements: entering ninth-grade class of 2022–23; DESE memo COM-22-116 corroborates Act 414.
The identifier reflects the inventory year, not the 2021 enactment. One approved CS or related CTE credit is required.
Review history
Reviewed against official sources
Source availability checked Oct 4, 2026: Official-source indexed text reviewed; direct retrieval unavailable. This is separate from verification of the policy claim below.
Source review date recorded in database: 2026-10-04
2026-10-03 — Carried forward from the source-linked baseline; topic, grade and evidence-type inventory reviewed. Individual source was not re-opened in this update. 2026-10-04 — Substantive source review: Resolved the cohort against indexed current DESE accreditation rules and the official implementation memo; direct PDF retrieval was unavailable.
Record ID: AR-2025-CSGRAD-001
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