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58 ), and social studies (history, geography, economics, and civic education). (b) Arkansas public school students will apply practical knowledge and skills. (1) Students will meet required academic standards in those areas that will better prepare them for lifelong career opportunities.

(2) Students will achieve competency at the local level in computer science and other technologies, practical economic and consumer skills, and be offered courses in vocational-preparation skills. (c) Arkansas public school students will demonstrate achievement. (1) Students will participate in the state assessments in the basic core of knowledge and skills as defined by the State Department of Education in the Arkansas Comprehensive Testing and Assessment Program.

(2) The students' numerical and percentage scores on the High School Proficiency Examination will be recorded on their transcripts, and the examination will be a part of the local school grading system in a way to be determined by the local school district.

(3) Each local school district shall report to the State Department of Education how it will incorporate the assessment system required by this subsection into the district's grading system. Act 1108 of 1997, § 3, codified in slightly different language at Ark. Code Ann. § 6-15-1003(a), (b), (c) (Repl. 1999). In short, the General Assembly is well on the way to defining adequacy while the Department of Education, from all indications, has been recalcitrant.

[6] Without the benefit of an adequacy standard developed by the Department of Education, both Judge Imber and Judge Kilgore looked to the case of Rose v. Council for Better Education, Inc., supra, for a definition of "efficient" education: We concur with the trial court that an efficient system of education must have as its goal to provide each and every child with at least the seven following capacities: (i) sufficient oral and written communication skills to enable students to function in a complex and rapidly changing civilization; (ii) sufficient knowledge of