AR HB1674

Creates community public education boards for school districts when at least 10% of eligible students are enrolled in open-enrollment public charter schools, continuing for 2 school years after enrollment falls below 10%.

Board members are elected voluntarily without compensation for staggered 3-year terms, must be qualified electors of the district, and cannot work for any K-12 educational institution; boards have the same number of members as the school district's board of directors.

Community boards examine the local education system, study student access to quality schools, cost-effectiveness, facility modernization, and collaboration between traditional and charter schools, submitting quarterly reports to the State Board of Education and district board.

Grants community boards authority to review and potentially reverse public charter authorizing panel approvals for new charters or charter expansions that would draw students from their district, with ability to impose conditions or deny student admission from their geographic area.

Establishes State Board of Education review authority over community board decisions, requiring written findings that a decision was arbitrary to reverse it; all community board decisions are final unless appealed to the State Board.