| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 Postsecondary Governance and Structures--State Executives/State Agencies |
Issued 06/2012 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Council on Postsecondary Education as an organizational unit and administrative body attached to the office of the governor for administrative purposes. http://apps.sos.ky.gov/Executive/Journal/execjournalimages/2012-MISC-222480.pdf
Title: Executive Order 2012-419
Source: apps.sos.ky.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Sections 1-2: Establishes legislative intent to provide rigorous academic and career and technical education programs that are relevant for all students and that encourage at-risk students to graduate from high school prepared to enter postsecondary education institutions or the workforce with needed skills. Amends purposes of K-12 career and technical education programs. Defines "at-risk," "advanced manufacturing," "career academy,"career guidance coach," "career pathway" and "career pathway program of study," "evidence-based instructional model," and "industry certification."
Section 4: Provides that if funds are appropriated or internal funds are available, the department of education, in collaboration with the Office of Career and Technical Education (CTE) in the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, the Education Professional Standards Board, and other appropriate educational entities, must recommend evidence-based models for addressing the needs of at-risk students. Requires that the evidence-based models (1) include a variety of programs and curricula proven to be effective for at-risk students, (2) focus on achieving specified goals, including providing assistance to adult students in earning a high school diploma or a recognized postsecondary education credential that has value in the workplace, and (3) include specified components to facilitate a more successful 9th grade year, including career courses, including career exploration, in grade 9 to incorporate project-based instruction that requires the application of 9th grade-level reading, math, and science skills and that uses a wide variety of technology. Contingent upon availability of state or federal funds, requires all high school-level CTE teachers to receive training in how to embed reading, mathematics, and science knowledge and skills in specific CTE courses. Requires CTE teachers to provide evidence that students' academic achievement is increased, as defined by administrative regulations. Requires the evidence-based models to be incorporated into CTE programs, career academies, and career pathway programs of study.
Section 5: Establishes definitions. Creates the "career and technical education accessibility fund," to be administered by the department of education. Requires that the fund be used to provide grants for (1) The development of career pathways and programs of study in high-demand occupational fields for students in middle and high schools, and (2) The establishment of career academies in secondary schools. Establishes requirements for career academies. Permits career academies to serve adult learners. Directs the state board to adopt rules to specify certain program components. Requires schools receiving grants to have an active local advisory council of industry leaders, employers, and postsecondary education faculty to provide input on long-range goals for CTE.
Section 6: Directs the department of education and the office of career and technical education to conduct a needs assessment process to determine the statewide unmet needs for CTE capital projects, including renovations and expansions of existing facilities and the construction of new technology centers.
Section 7: Requires annual statewide analysis of success of CTE students to include (1) the number of students who took state or national assessments of skill standards and qualified for skills certificates, (2) the number of senior concentrators who earned a high school diploma or equivalent, (3) the number of students who made successful transitions to work, military, or postsecondary education, (4) the number of students employed in nontraditional careers, and (5) other factors deemed appropriate by state education agencies or required under federal law. Beginning in the 2013-14 school year, requires the education professional standards board, as a condition of program approval, to require career and technical educator preparation programs to include instructional techniques to embed reading, math, and science knowledge and skills into all secondary-level CTE instruction.
Section 8 (from fiscal analysis): Excludes teachers, career guidance coaches, counselors, and school administrators in state-operated area technology centers from the cap on the total number of personnel in the executive branch. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB38/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 38 - Career Pathways
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Defines "alternative education program." Prohibits a superintendent from assigning an employee to an alternative education program in the disposition of any disciplinary action involving the employee, or as part of a corrective action plan established pursuant to the local district evaluation plan. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB168/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 168
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Attendance--Compulsory |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends school entrance ages and compulsory school ages. Effective with the 2017-18 school year, kindergarten entrance age is 5 by August 1 and lower compulsory school age is 6 by August 1 (previous date for both was October 1). Directs local boards to adopt policies permitting a parent to petition the board to allow a child who does not meet such age requirements to attend school. Requires such policies to include an evaluation process to help determine a child's readiness for school. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB24/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 24
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to define "district of innovation" and related terms. Authorizes the state board to approve districts of innovation for the purposes of improving students' educational performance. Limit initial approval and subsequent renewals to five year periods. Requires that districts of innovation be provided flexibility from state and local policies in order for educators to meet students' diverse needs. Directs the state board to promulgate administrative regulations to prescribe the conditions and procedures for a local board to be approved as a district of innovation, and identifies specific components state board policy must address. Establishes eligibility requirements for districts applying for designation as a district of innovation. Prescribes the statutory requirements with which schools of innovation within districts of innovation must comply. Clarifies that only schools that choose to be designated as schools of innovation are to be included in a district's application, and that 70% of eligible employees, as defined, must approve a vote for the school to become a school of innovation before joining a district application. However, permits a local board to require a persistently low-achieving school to participate in the district's plan of innovation. Identifies areas in which districts may request approval of practices that are different than current statutory requirements. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB37/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 37
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
For the 2011-12 school year, directs the commissioner of education to waive up to 10 instructional days for a district in a county in which a disaster has been declared. Permits a district in a county in which a disaster has been declared, when submitting the Superintendent's Annual Attendance Report, may substitute attendance data for school year 2010-2011 for attendance data for school year 2011-2012. Directs instructional staff in a county in which a disaster has been declared to make up any student instructional days waived by participating in instructional activities or professional development or by being assigned additional work responsibilities. Provides this Act applies retroactively to the disaster occurring on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, to Saturday, March 3, 2012. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB255/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 255
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Allows a superintendent's spouse who has at least 8 years of service in school systems to be an employee in the district in which the superintendent is employed (under previous provisions, superintendent's spouse had to have at least 20 years of service in school systems to be an employee of the district). Amends provisions regarding school councils' hiring authority. Provides that if the applicant is the superintendent's spouse and meets the aforementioned service requirements, the applicant shall only be employed upon the recommendation of the principal and the approval of a majority vote of the school council. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB366/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 366
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires coaches to complete training on recognizing and treating concussions and head injuries. Requires the state board or its agency to develop guidelines or materials to inform student athletes and their parents of the nature and risk of concussions and head injuries. Requires removal from play of a student athlete suspected of having sustained a concussion during athletic practice or competition. Identifies actions required before an athlete with a suspected concussion or head injury may return to play. Directs the state board or its agency to adopt rules governing interscholastic athletics conducted by local boards to require each school participating in interscholastic athletics to develop a venue-specific emergency action plan to deal with serious injuries and acute medical conditions in which the condition of the patient may deteriorate rapidly. Requires each school to submit annual written verification of the existence of a venue-specific emergency action plan to the state board or its agency.
Amends requirement that a student undergo medical exam prior to participating in any athletic activity or sport. Previous provision limited medical exam requirement to high school student athletes; amendment extends this requirement to all student athletes, regardless of grade level. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB281/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 281
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
High School |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Transfers the Governor's Scholars Program from the office of the governor to the education and workforce development cabinet. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB278/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 278
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Section 3: Directs the department of education, by January 2013, to communicate to all districts the minimum core content standards for postsecondary education introductory courses and career-readiness standards. Before the start of the 2013-14 school year, directs the department to assist districts in analyzing assessment data to identify students who are academically behind, who have higher than normal absentee rates, or who have a record of discipline problems at the end of any of grades 6, 8, 9, 10, or 11. Requires the department to develop enhanced courses in English, reading, and math for students in grades 6 or 9-12 for students who are academically behind to help them meet the college and career-readiness standards.
Pages 4-5 of 16: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB38/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 38 - Helping Students Meet College/Career-Readiness Standards
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the state board to promulgate administrative regulations for an alternative high school diploma for students with disabilities completing a modified curriculum and an individualized course of study. Amends KRS 158.140 to require local boards to award the diploma to eligible students. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB43/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 43
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Middle School |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the Legislative Research Commission to establish a task force to study interscholastic athletics at the middle school level, and assess possible options for the creation of "best practice" guidelines. Identifies specific areas of investigation. Requires that the task force be appointed by August 1, 2012; identifies task force membership. Directs the task force to report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission, the Interim Joint Committee on Education, and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare by December 7, 2012, and to make recommendations to improve interscholastic athletics at the middle school level. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HC155/bill.doc
Title: H.C.R. 155
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
P-3 Grades 1-3 |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Defines "aphasia", "dyscalculia", "dysgraphia", "dyslexia", "phonemic awareness" and "scientifically based research". Directs the state board to promulgate administrative regulations for districtwide use of a response-to-intervention system for K-3 students, to provide general, compensatory and special education students interventions aligned with scientifically based research. Requires all districts to implement RTI systems for reading and writing by August 1, 2013; math by August 1, 2014; and behavior by August 1, 2015. Directs the department to make technical assistance and training available to all districts in the implementation of the system, and identifies the professional knowledge and skills the technical assistance must be designed to improve. Also directs the department to develop a Web-based resource for teachers that includes among other features instructional tools, based on scientifically based research, to assist students in reading, writing, math and behavior. Encourages the department to coordinate technical assistance and training with state postsecondary institutions, and requires the department to collaborate with specified entities to ensure teachers are prepared to utilize scientifically based interventions in reading, writing, math and behavior. Requires conformity with 20 U.S.C. sec. 1414(a)(1)(E) for initial evaluations of students with suspected disabilities. Directs the department to report annually beginning November 30, 2013 on implementation of the system. Pages 1-4 of 9: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB69/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 69 - K-3 Response to Intervention System in Reading, Writing, Math and Behavior
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Asset Resolution Corporation to promote higher educational opportunities by providing debt resolution services for student loan obligations held by the U.S. Department of Education or other third-party entities, and any other related activity. Provides that the corporation is attached to the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation for administrative and reporting purposes, but is to be governed as a separate and distinct instrumentality of the Commonwealth. Establishes powers and authority of the corporation. Directs the board of directors of the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation to serve as the corporation's board. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB362/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 362
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Repeals and reenacts KRS 165A.340 to abolish the Kentucky Board for Proprietary Education and create the Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education. Establishes commission membership and prescribes powers and duties. Directs the commission to hire an executive director with a background in the regulation of commerce, business or education. Designates the responsibilities of the executive director. Requires the commission to promulgate administrative regulations to establish specified policy components, including among others (1) commission operating and accountability procedures, and (2) requirements for each licensed institution to publicly disclose information about (a) the job placement rate of program graduates in the field of study and the types of jobs for which graduates are eligible and (b) articulation agreements with other postsecondary educational institutions and the rights and responsibilities of students regarding transfer of credits. Requires that the student protection fund provide refunds to students enrolled or on leave of absence by not being enrolled for 1 academic year or less from the school at the time of the closing, or incurred due to discontinuance of a program, loss of license, or loss of accreditation by a school or program. Directs the commission to promulgate administrative regulations to, among other provisions, set minimum fund balance at $500,000, levy a scaled structure of fees on each school when fund drops below minimum balance, and require institutions to make all students aware of the student protection fund and establish the process for filing claims. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB308/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 308
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Allows the comprehensive universities to offer a combined maximum of 18 advanced practice doctoral programs with the approval of the council on postsecondary education. Ensures each comprehensive university the opportunity to offer a minimum of two programs. Provides these 18 programs must include advanced practice doctoral programs in nursing and Ed.D. programs. Directs the council on postsecondary education to assess the approval process in five years or once 18 programs are approved, whichever occurs first. Permits the council on postsecondary education, subsequent to the review, to retain the current maximum or recommend a new maximum for consideration by the general assembly. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB131/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 131
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Summer School |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Outlines rationale for summer learning camps. Encourages development of a summer learning program for children from low-income families and children behind in grade level work who are entering the second year of the primary program through grade 5. Requires that the summer learning program provide a blend of evidence-based instruction in reading and math, plus experiential and enrichment activities in the arts, technology and sports. Defines terms, including "enrichment instructor" and "low-achieving Title I student". Encourages schools with schoolwide Title I programs or Targeted Assistance Title I programs to establish summer learning camps that meet specified requirements, including 3 hours of daily instruction for Title I-eligible students; 3 hours of planned enrichment activities, available to Title I-eligible students as well as other students; innovative professional development with the opportunity for piloting and assessing innovative models of instruction; provisions for transporting full-day participants and one-way transportation for students participating in enrichment programs only; and evaluation procedures. Directs the department to provide technical assistance upon request from a school or district in developing a summer learning camp. Permits districts to contract with private providers to offer enrichment programs. Establishes student participation parameters, including students to receive priority for program enrollment. Requires pre- and post-program reporting by districts to the department of education, as well as a summary annual report for each summer learning camp in the district. Identifies required components of summer learning camp reports. Requires the department to publish statewide summary report that highlights best practices and success stories, and to provide state academic assessment data disaggregated by those attending summer learning camps. Establishes funding procedures. Pages 1-7 of 9: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB95/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 95 - Summer Learning Camps
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits a local board to authorize the use of school property by community members during non-school hours for recreation, sport, academic, literary, artistic or community uses pursuant to local board policies. Provides a district and its board members, officers, and employees retain the same immunities for any loss or injury claim arising from such facilities and property use as they would had the use occurred during school hours or for school-related activities. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB110/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 110
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Amends definition of "specific learning disability" to bring into conformity with federal definition (i.e., specify that it may include conditions such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, developmental aphasia, or perceptual motor disabilities, and require that determination of a child's specific learning disability must include documentation that a child does not make sufficient progress in meeting age or grade-level content standards when provided with appropriate instruction and learning experiences delivered by qualified personnel, including the child's response to scientific, research-based interventions and additional information derived from an individual evaluation.) Clarifies that term does not include learning problem that is primarily the result of limited English proficiency.
Pages 4-9 of 9: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB69/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 69 - Definition of "Specific Learning Disability"
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
STEM |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Section 9: Urges the council on postsecondary education is urged to provide additional funding to those postsecondary education institutions that have partnerships with high school seniors enrolled in STEM and energy fields. Page 16 of 16: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB38/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 38 - Funding to High School/Postsecondary STEM and Energy Fields Partnerships
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Technology--Equitable Access |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Task Force on Student Access to Technology to develop a strategy and funding mechanism to provide 5th and 6th graders with access to devices such as laptops, tablets, netbooks, and e-readers for school and home use. Requires that the study review the statewide availability of broadband necessary for students to best use their computing devices at home. Identifies task force membership, and directs the task force to report its findings to the legislative research commission by December 1, 2012.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB95/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 95 - Task Force on Student Access to Technology
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires secondary schools to provide information to 12th grade students on how to register to vote, vote in an election using a ballot, and vote using an absentee ballot. Permits a school to provide this information through classroom activities, written materials, electronic communication, Internet resources, participation in mock elections and other methods identified by the principal after consulting with teachers.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB192/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 192
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education to determine urgent and critical construction needs. Directs the department to provide a funding allocation to a district for a school that is closed to the public because it is structurally unsound or is otherwise uninhabitable as determined by the commissioner of education. Directs the commissioner of education to determine whether the funding allocation should be to retire the unpaid debt on the structurally unsound or uninhabitable building, or to provide the semi-annual debt service payments on the current issue. Provides that when funds are not available, the costs must be deemed a necessary government expense and be paid from the general fund surplus account under KRS 48.700 or the budget reserve trust fund under KRS 48.705. Directs a school district that receives an allotment and subsequently receives funds from litigation or insurance to repay the allotment to the budget reserve trust fund account.
Directs the department of education to provide an allotment to any district with a school that was closed in 2010 because it is structurally unsound and has a bond that has not been retired. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB428/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 428
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Increases the limit on campaign contributions to school board candidates from $100 for individuals and $200 for organizations to $1,000.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB228/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 228
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Governance--Site-Based Management |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the superintendent, when a principal is filling a personnel vacancy at the school, to provide additional applicants to the principal upon request when qualified applicants are available. Specifies that when the vacancy to be filled is the position of principal, the principal may not serve on the school council during the principal selection process. Makes additional provisions related to a school council's filling of a principal vacancy. Provides that no principal previously removed from a position in the district for cause may be considered for appointment as principal. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB12/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 12
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Health |
Adopted 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Encourages the state department of education, the Kentucky Board of Nursing, the Kentucky Education Association, and the Kentucky School Boards Association to work with the American Diabetes Association, the Epilepsy Foundation of Kentucky, and the American Lung Association to develop a plan to raise awareness among Kentucky public school personnel about the chronic health conditions of asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, and severe allergies, how to recognize a chronic health condition episode, and the appropriate school responses to chronic health condition episodes. Encourages the Kentucky Department of Education, the department of public health, and the department of medicaid services to examine administrative regulations and agreements to remove barriers to collaboration and ensure consistency in the availability and provision of health services to students with chronic health conditions attending school in the state. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HR187/bill.doc
Title: H.R. 187
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Directs the Kentucky Department of Education, with the assistance of the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet, to adopt a salary schedule for administrators for the Kentucky School for the Deaf and the Kentucky School for the Blind. Requires salary schedules to be comparable to administrators' salaries with similar duties and qualifications in local school districts. Requires the salary schedule to be computed by September 1 of each year and to include 260 days. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB425/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 425 - Salaries for Administrators at Special Schools
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Specifies that any active duty military personnel must be kept in good standing by the administrative body with which he/she is licensed or certified, provided that, at the time of activation, the member was in good standing with a state administrative body, and was duly licensed to engage in his/her profession in the Commonwealth. Requires that any active duty military personnel's certification or licensure must be renewed without payment of fees or obtaining continuing education credits when circumstances associated with military duty prevent obtaining training, and a waiver request has been submitted to the appropriate administrative body. Provides the license or certificate must be continued as long as the holder is an active duty member of the military, and for a period of six months after discharge from active duty.
Directs an administrative body to issue a temporary or regular license or certificate to the spouse of any active duty military personnel within 30 days if the spouse meets the administrative body's statutory requirements and applies to the administrative body. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB301/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 301
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Section 2: Permits the commissioner of education to grant up to the equivalent of 10 instructional days for school years 2010-11 and 2011-12 for districts that have missed an average of 20 or more days in the previous three years and use alternative methods of instruction, including virtual learning, on days when the school district is closed for health or safety reasons, on nontraditional days, or during nontraditional time. Provides average daily attendance for purposes of supporting education excellence in Kentucky funding during the instructional time granted must be calculated in compliance with administrative regulations promulgated by the state board of education.
Section 3: Provides that if the days in the approved calendar designated as makeup days are used, the commissioner of education must grant a request made by a local board of education to waive the makeup of all remaining instructional days scheduled to occur on or after June 21.
Section 4: Permits a local board of education to amend its 2010-11 school calendar by adding at least 30 minutes to any remaining instructional day to make up time missed due to weather or illness. Requires that all instructional time added pursuant to this section be fully credited toward the calculation of the equivalent of 177 six-hour instructional days, and prohibits a school calendar amended pursuant to this section from being deemed an innovative calendar during the 2010-2011 school year
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB427/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 427 - Lost Instructional Days
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Permits the governing board of a public university to adopt a tuition policy whereby any veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces or National Guard who is eligible for Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits who enrolls as a student in the university as a non-Kentucky resident is charged no more than the maximum tuition reimbursement provided under the Post-9/11 GI Bill to public universities for eligible Kentucky residents. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB425/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 425 - Resident Tuition for Veterans
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Students--Graduate/Professional |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
Postsec. |
Permits a comprehensive university to provide up to three advanced practice doctoral programs, including an Ed.D. program. Directs the council on postsecondary education, in consultation with the advisory conference of presidents, to develop criteria and conditions upon which an advanced practice doctoral degree program may be approved. Requires that the criteria include a determination of the academic and workforce needs for a program, consideration of whether the program can be effectively delivered through a collaborative effort with an existing program at another public university in the state, and a university's capacity to effectively offer the program. Requires the requesting university to provide assurance that funding for the program will not impair funding of any existing program at any other public university. Requires the university to annually report to the council, identifying the full cost of and all funding sources for each approved doctoral program, and the performance of each approved program. Directs the council to submit the approval process to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by October 15, 2011. Prohibits a comprehensive university from offering specified terminal doctorate or first professional degrees, and from describing itself in official publications or in marketing materials as a research university or research institution. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB130/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 130
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires a certified or classified staff member to accompany students on non-athletic school-sponsored or school-endorsed trips. Permits local boards of education to adopt a policy specifying the job classifications of staff members who may accompany students on trips. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB427/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 427 - School Trips
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures for reviewing and resolving claims of factual errors found in textbooks after adoption by the State Textbook Commission. Requires that the administrative rules include, among other provisions, the development of conditions to include in publishers' contracts specifying protocols for correcting errors, and notification of school districts of errors, if found, and the resolution determined to be available. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB464/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 464
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the state board of education or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations that permit the hiring of a nonteaching or noncertified person in a coaching position. Requires that a person employed in a coaching position be a high school graduate and at least 21 years old, and submit to a background check. Requires that the administrative regulations specify post-hire requirements for persons employed in coaching positions. Authorizes a local school board to specify post-hire requirements for personnel employed in coaching positions in addition to those specified in administrative regulations. Encourages the state board of education or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics to schedule athletic competitions outside the regularly scheduled school day. Permits a student on a school-sponsored athletic team competing during the school day in a regional or state tournament sanctioned by the state board or other agency designated to manage interscholastic athletics to be counted present during the days of the competition, for up to two days a year. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB327/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 327
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Curriculum--Family Living Education |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Encourages high schools to include a segment on prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma during a student's final year of study. Provides this segment should also suggest methods of calming crying infants, techniques for caregivers to use to calm themselves when confronted with an infant that is crying inconsolably, and a discussion on selecting responsible care providers for infant children.
Requires all employees and owners of a child-care center and family child-care providers to complete 1.5 hours of continuing education every five years on recognition and prevention of pediatric abusive head trauma.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB285/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 285
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Allows nonprofit entities (including school boards) to lease land from any government entity or agency for purposes of constructing a school building. Provides the lease must be for 1 year but may be extended from year to year for a minimum of 50 years. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB114/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 114
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires all high school and middle school principals, guidance counselors and teachers each school year to complete a minimum of two hours of self-study review of suicide prevention materials. Provides that if a local board offers suicide prevention training, it may be completed through self-study review of suicide prevention materials. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB65/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 65
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
High School--Advanced Placement |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Encourages postsecondary institutions to limit bachelor degree programs to 120 credit hours and associate degree programs to 60 credit hours beginning with the 2012-13 academic year; provides exceptions.
[OF NOTE: Creates a comprehensive approach to improving student transfer/articulation, especially from two-year to four-year institutions. Directs the council on postsecondary education to:
(1) Develop and implement a statewide agreement that the state community and technical college system's two-year degree coursework be accepted and fully credited to related bachelor's degree programs by all public universities
(2) Develop and maintain a statewide common-course numbering system for lower-division general education and program-specific prerequisite courses in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System
(3) Establish a statewide course classification system and procedures to monitor the transfer and crediting of lower-division coursework, including a system of ongoing assessment that ensures comparability for transfer purposes
(4) Establish a procedure for approval of changes in learning outcomes at public universities (definition of "learning outcomes" below)
(5) Standardize credit-by-exam equivalencies and passing scores for national exams transferable for general education courses and program-specific prerequisite courses [i.e., Advanced Placement]
(6) Develop policies to align transfer and articulation procedures statewide, including admissions criteria, student declaration of major, and student guidance and counseling policies to ensure that students pursuing a two-year degree provide timely notification of their intent to transfer to a four-year institution
(7) Develop uniform data collection and reporting methods to ensure statewide and institutional compliance with course transfer and credit requirements
(8) Guarantee that, upon admission to a four-year institution, graduates of an approved two-year degree program have met all general education requirements
(9) Provide that graduates of approved two-year degree programs at public postsecondary institutions who complete the prerequisite learning outcomes for a four-year degree program while fulfilling the requirements for two-year degree, are not required to repeat or take any additional lower-level courses to fulfill bachelor degree requirements in the same major, and that these students be granted admission to related upper-division bachelor's degree programs on the same criteria as students earning lower-division credits at the university to which the student transferred
(10) Provide that graduates of two-year degree programs receive priority for admission over out-of-state students at a public four-year institution if they meet the same admission criteria
(11) Establish commonality in public college transcripts to facilitate transfer of credits from two-year institutions
(12) Encourage private postsecondary institutions to collaborate with public postsecondary institutions in developing programs and agreements to expedite the transfer of students and credits between institutions
(13) Establish an appeals process to resolve disagreements between transferring students and receiving educational institutions regarding the transfer and acceptance of credits earned at another institution
(14) Ensure that all transfer and articulation policies are consistent with the rules and regulations established by all appropriate discipline-specific accrediting bodies and institutional accrediting agencies as recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Defines "learning outcomes" as the knowledge, skills and abilities that students have attained as a result of their involvement in a particular set of educational experiences. Requires that when an institution seeks to change learning outcomes for a four-year degree program that affect lower-division courses, the university must notify the council of postsecondary education and the state community and technical college system of the proposed changes at the same time as the initiation of the university's approval process. If it is determined that the proposed change will have an adverse effect on transferability, requires the university proposing the change to enter into discussion with the council and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to verify that there remains a clearly defined path to a bachelor's degree for those students who plan to transfer from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to the public university.] http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB160/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 160
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to evaluation of superintendents of schools. Distinguishes the evaluation requirements for the local superintendent from those for other school personnel (previous legislation applied to all certified school personnel, including superintendents). Requires that the summative evaluation be discussed and adopted in an open meeting of the local board of education and reflected in the minutes. Specifies that if the local policy requires a written evaluation, it must be made available to the public upon request. Provides that all preliminary discussions relating to the superintendent's evaluation be conducted in closed session. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB178/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 178
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Private Schools |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Permits private, parochial and church schools to require a national and state criminal background check on each certified teacher once every five years of employment after the initial check. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB447/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 447
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Defines "efficient school design". Enumerates the public benefits of schools constructed or renovated using efficient school design. Creates new sections to support and encourage the construction and renovation of school buildings using efficient design concepts. Strongly encourages the department of education and districts to (1) Meet or exceed efficient school design standards in planning and designing all new buildings and major renovation projects; (2) Use life-cycle cost analysis to evaluate different design proposals; (3) Consider the possibility that each new school building or major renovation of a building could be a net zero building, either during the construction or renovation, or at a later date as resources become available. Creates the Kentucky efficient school design trust fund, to be administered by the department of education, to to offset any initial additional cost associated with the construction or renovation of school buildings using efficient school design. Directs the state board to establish in administrative rules how a school district may qualify for and use funds from the account. Requires the department of education to develop and publish guidelines for efficient school design. Directs the department of education and department for energy development and independence to assist districts in:
(1) Developing methods for measuring ongoing operating savings resulting from the use of efficient school design
(2) Identifying sources for training for school staff and students to ensure that efficient school design features and components are fully utilized
(3) Identifying ways that efficient school design and its energy-saving components can be integrated into the school curriculum.
Directs the department of education and department for energy development and independence to submit an annual report to the legislative research commission and the governor that includes:
(1) An assessment of the implementation of efficient school design within Kentucky's education system
(2) Documented energy savings from any buildings built using efficient school design or net zero school buildings in operation
(3) A list of the new or renovated school buildings completed or identified for future construction during the prior year using efficient school design, including total project cost, additional cost or savings, if any, associated with efficient school design features, and efficient school design features included in the project
(4) A list of all school buildings that operate as a net zero building, and school buildings which school districts plan to convert to net zero; requires that the list include the total cost associated with the school building becoming a net zero building, and the components that will be installed to make the building a net zero building
(5) Any recommendations relating to efficient school design
(6) A list of new school buildings completed during the prior year without using efficient school design and an explanation of why efficient school design was not used.
Directs the department of education, beginning in the 2011-12 fiscal year, to standardize the process for evaluating the overall quality and condition of school buildings statewide. Requires that the evaluation process:
(1) Result in consistent categorization of buildings for local planning purposes and for the distribution of state general fund moneys designated for capital construction
(2) Be based on measurable, objective criteria
(3) Include numerical scoring with weights to recognize building components and characteristics that address specified components.
Directs the state board to adopt administrative rules upon recommendation of the Kentucky Department of Education and the School Facilities Construction Commission to implement this requirement.
By June 2011, directs the department of education to determine the estimated amount of money that districts are spending on architect and engineering evaluations in preparation of the existing district facility plans and report that amount to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue. By January 15, 2011, directs the Kentucky Department of Education to issue an RFP for contracting with a third party for evaluating the overall quality and condition of all school buildings across the state, as called for in this legislation. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB132/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 132
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
School/District Structure/Operations--Personnel (Non-Teaching) |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that if legislative funds are appropriated for this purpose, a local board must provide an annual salary supplement to all speech-language pathologists or audiologists employed by the local board to provide or coordinate speech-language pathology or audiology services for students and who hold specified state and national credentials. Requires that the salary supplement be in the same amount as that awarded to national board-certified teachers. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB376/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 376
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
Community College |
Effective July 2010, requires that Kentucky Community and Technical College System faculty and staff who provide educational services and support to inmates at institutions and who choose to become employees of the department of corrections be transferred to the department of corrections, along with their associated funding. Requires all Kentucky Community and Technical College System employees providing such services to choose whether to remain in their present employment and be assigned to the department of corrections to continue providing these services, or become an employee of the department of corrections. Requires employees to make a decision by June 15, 2010, and to have access before that date to counseling by representatives of the department, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, applicable retirement systems, and the Personnel Cabinet on the effect of the transfer on that employee. Provides that all employees who do not make a decision by June 15, 2010 are deemed to have chosen to become employees of the department of corrections. Additionally requires that all Kentucky Community and Technical College System instructional supplies, equipment, funds and records associated with the provision of educational services and support to inmates at institutions be transferred to the department of corrections, along with all financial and management oversight responsibility and liability for these programs. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB164/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 164
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Alternative |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes an alternative teacher certification option for Teach for America participants. Establishes criteria a candidate must meet to be awarded a one-year temporary provisional teaching certificate under this alternative certification option. Permits this provisional teaching certificate to be renewed twice. Requires that a Teach for America participant be issued a professional certificate upon the participant's successful completion of the internship program and subject matter assessments required by the education professional standards board. Provides that this option must be considered a pilot program and an option during the time period from the effective date of this Act until the Race to the Top funding program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is completed. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB180/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 180
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Relates to adolescent reading skills. Expresses legislative intent that all middle and high school students have the skills necessary to read complex materials in specific core subjects and comprehend and apply information. Requires every middle and high school to (1) provide explicit instruction to students lacking skills in how to read, learn, and analyze information in key subjects, and (2) ensure that teachers have the skills to help all students develop critical strategies and skills for subject-based reading. Directs the department of education to provide technical assistance to districts to identify teaching strategies to improve reading skills needed to understand subject area concepts and content. Directs the education professional standards board to review and revise the teacher certification and licensure requirements as necessary to ensure that all teachers are prepared to improve students' subject reading skills. Also directs the department of education to work with state and national educators and subject matter experts to identify student reading skills in each subject area that align with the state content standards and identify teaching strategies in each subject area that can be used explicitly to develop the necessary reading skills. Further directs the department to encourage the development of comprehensive middle and high school adolescent reading plans to be incorporated into the curricula of each subject area to improve all students' reading comprehension.
Expands the duties of the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development: Early Childhood through Adulthood. Requires the center to (1) help middle and high schools develop comprehensive adolescent reading plans and (2) maintain a repository of comprehension best practices in the teaching of each subject area and a list of classroom-based diagnostic reading comprehension assessments that measure student progress in developing students' reading comprehension skills. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB163/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 163
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes a deadline of January 1, 2011 for cities and school boards to submit to the county clerk a list of properties and boundaries and changes to boundaries, to allow the county clerk to maintain a roster of voters who are eligible to vote in school board elections. Permits electronic transmission of information. Prohibits county clerks from charging a fee to cities or school boards for transmittal of such information. Permits county clerks to request more information if necessary in order to maintain the voting roster. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB35/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 35
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Health--Suicide Prevention |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Requires the cabinet for health and family services to post suicide prevention awareness and training information on its Web page by August 1, 2010; requires every public middle and high school administrator to disseminate suicide prevention awareness information to all middle and high school students by September 1, 2010, and September 1 of each year thereafter. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB51/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 51
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the election of a faculty representative to the boards of regents. Permits an instructor to vote and be selected as a representative to a board of regents in one of the comprehensive universities. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB374/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 374
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides salary supplements to national board-certified teachers employed in Kentucky Tech schools or programs operated by the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/SB89/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 89
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov/ |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 |
Amends accountability provisions in KRS 160.346. Defines "persistently low-achieving school". Defines "school intervention" as a process chosen by a school council, a superintendent and a local board, or the commissioner of education or designee with state board approval, to turn around a persistently low-achieving school. Repeals certain language regarding actions of an audit team in relation to a school under accountability sanctions. Directs an audit team auditing a persistently low-achieving school to include in its review and report (1) a determination of the school council and principal's ability to lead the intervention in the persistently low-achieving school and (2) a recommendation to the commissioner of education as to whether the council should be replaced, and whether the current principal should remain as principal in the school. Repeals language allowing authority for a low-performing school to be transferred to a "highly skilled educator"; adds new language providing that if the audit team recommends transferring the school council's authority, the team may recommend that (1) such authority be transferred to the commissioner of education, who must designate staff to manage the school, and/or (2) the council members be replaced by the commissioner of education.
Requires an audit team auditing the district of a persistently low-achieving school to include in its review and report a determination of the district's ability to manage the intervention in the persistently low-achieving school. Requires the commissioner of education, within 30 days of receiving the reports of the school and district audits, to act on the recommendations in the reports and other relevant data. Existing law permits the school council of a low-performing school to appeal the commissioner's action on the audit team' recommendations; new provision additionally allows the local board to appeal the commissioner's action, and requires the state board to hold a special meeting for action on the appeal if the state board is not scheduled to meet within 30 days of receipt of an appeal of the commissioner's decision.
Existing legislation allows powers, duties and authority for an underperforming school to be transferred to the local superintendent or a highly skilled educator; new provisions replace such language with references to transfer of powers, duties and authority to local superintendent, commissioner of education, or his/her designee.
Requires persistently low-achieving schools to select one of five intervention options: (1) "external management option" (day-to-day operations transferred to a for-profit or nonprofit education management organization (EMO); provides the EMO may make personnel decisions; (2) "restaffing option" (replacement of principal and school-based decision making council unless recommended otherwise, retention of no more than 50% of school staff, development and implementation of an action plan using research-based school improvement initiatives to improve student performance); (3) "school closure option" (transfer of students to district schools meeting accountability measures, reassignment of school staff, potential nonrenewal of contracts, dismissal, demotion, or a combination of such personnel actions); (4) "transformation option" (replacement of principal and of school council unless the audit report recommends otherwise, institution of an extensive set of specified strategies designed to turn around the identified school); (5) any other model recognized by the federal No Child Left Behind Act or its successor. Directs the state board to adopt rules establishing the process and procedures for implementing the enumerated intervention options.
Specifies that professionally negotiated contracts by a local board of education shall not take precedence over the requirements of the "restaffing", "school closure" and "transformation" options. Directs the state department of education to provide services and support to assist persistently low-achieving schools.
Directs the state department of education, based on the 2009 Advanced Placement results of schools participating in the "Advance Kentucky" initiative http://www.advancekentucky.com/Default.aspx, to include in the state's Race to the Top application a description of the intent to expand Advance Kentucky schools by 20 schools a year over a four-year period. Directs the state department of education to provide 50% of all program costs, with all additional costs to be covered by grants from philanthropy, local district funding, and other sources of funding, including legislative appropriation. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB176/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 176
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
Emergency Rule Adoption 01/2010 |
P-12 |
Establishes the processes to be followed during a school leadership assessment and district leadership assessment after a school is identified as low-achieving, per 2010 H.B. 176 (http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB176/bill.doc). Defines "assessment team", "district leadership assessment", "needs assessment" and "school leadership assessment". Establishes rules to help identify the entity authorized to select an intervention option. Establishes reform activities permitted under each of the intervention options (external management, restaffing, school closure and transformation) established in H.B. 176. Establishes procedures for the commissioner of education to follow in selecting External Management Organizations for those schools undergoing the external management intervention option. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/703/005/180reg.htm
Title: 703 KAR 5:180
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Adopted 01/2010 |
P-12 |
Adds section providing definitions of: "full day of attendance" (student in attendance at least 65% of regularly-scheduled school day), "tardy" (student absent less than 35% of the regularly-scheduled school day), "half-day absence" (student absent 35-84% of regularly-scheduled school day), and "full-day absence" (student absent 85% or more of regularly-scheduled school day). According to the fiscal impact statement in the proposed rule change, "This change could increase individual local districts' average daily attendance (ADA) calculation, thus increasing SEEK [Support Education
Excellence in Kentucky] payments to districts[;] however, any increases will still remain subject to the aggregate SEEK appropriation."
Eliminates withdrawal code "W09" for a student who has graduated or completed a 504 plan or an individual education plan prior to the end of the school term or year. Adds the following withdrawal codes for indicating student enrollment status:
W28 - student has reached the maximum age for education services without receiving a diploma or certificate of attainment
C01 - student completes the school year in the school of the most current enrollment
G01 - student graduates in less than 4 years
G02 - student graduates in 4 years
G03 - student graduates in 5 or more years
G04 - studento graduates in 6 or more years
NS - student completed the prior year with a C01 and was expected to enroll in the district but did not enroll by October 1 of the current year whose enrollment elsewhere cannot be substantiated.
Adds that each student's ethnicity must be designated as either Hispanic/Latino or not Hispanic/Latino. Also clarifies that more than one racial codes may be applied to an individual student. Separates out "Pacific Islander" from "Asian" as a unique racial code. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/007/125reg.htm
Title: 702 KAR 7:125
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Requires that a recipient of the Go Higher Grant must not be in default on a federally-guaranteed student loan nor be liable for any overaward on any grant or loan under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/011/005/200.htm
Title: 11 KAR 5:200
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 07/2009 |
Postsec. |
Provides a definition of "home school" and prescribes initial application procedures for home school students to participate in the Robert C Byrd Honors Scholarship Program. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/011/018/010.htm
Title: 11 KAR 18:010
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Adopted 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules that establishing standards that school districts shall meet in operational performance, including construction of public school buildings and the use of uniform forms. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/004/160.htm
Title: 702 KAR 4:160
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 06/2009 |
Postsec. |
Establishes ""Metropolitan College" as a nonprofit consortium that includes educational institutions in the Commonwealth and the qualified taxpayer (businesses) as members. Provides the purpose of Metropolitan College is to provide postsecondary educational opportunities to employees of the qualified taxpayer as part of a combined work and postsecondary education program. Offers a qualified taxpayer a tax credit for tuition and other educational expenses incurred by a student participating in the Metropolitan College, on behalf of employees of the qualified corporation, for up to 2,800 employees each year. Pages 45-47 of 259: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09SS/HB3/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 3A - Section 19
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Adopted 06/2009 |
Postsec. |
Amends rules concerning standards for the assessment and placement of students in developmental programs. Allows student earning 20 on ACT reading assessment to be placed in credit-bearing courses (previous threshold was 21). Effective fall 2010, requires an institution to place a student in the appropriate developmental or college-level course within the first two terms that a student is enrolled (previous language required student to be placed during first term).
Title: 13 KAR 2:020
Source: www.lexis.com |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Repeals and re-establishes a refund policy for tuition charges for career and technology programs/classes in Kentucky TECH schools, and for continuing education classes for adults. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/780/002/140.htm
Title: 780 KAR 2:140
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Specifies dollar amounts to be paid certified or equivalent career/technical education staff for
(1) Administering the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute Performance Test
(2) Each lesson plan used as a model for other classes in area technology centers
(3) Participating in specific projects relating to professional or curriculum development, staff exchange, and the integration of academics in career and technical education outside of normal working hours, subject to the state plan for career and technical education
Adds salary provisions for full-time employees working as a dual appointment (employees serving in two positions). http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/780/003/020.htm
Title: 780 KAR 3:020
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the written examination prerequisites and the corresponding passing scores for teacher certification. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/016/006/010.htm
Title: 16 KAR 6:010
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals provisions relating to rewards for successful schools. Establishes provisions to recognize schools that would have been rewarded under the former system. Repeals provision directing the state board to develop a formula for a school accountability index.
Requires the state board, after adopting revised academic standards by December 15, 2010 and a revised assessment system for use in the 2011-12 school year, to adopt rules establishing a new accountability system based on the revised standards and assessments. Requires the accountability system to include the results of program assessments of arts and humanities, practical living skills and career studies and writing programs as specified in revised KRS 158.6453 (7)((a) - (c) (revised by 2009 S.B. 1). Directs the state board, before adopting rules relating to the new accountability system, to seek advice from the School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council; the Office of Education Accountability; the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee; and the National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability. Repeals requirement that student be counted for accountability purposes if the student has been enrolled in the school 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period; replaces with requirement that student be enrolled in a school for at least a full academic year to be counted for accountability purposes. Repeals provisions relating to procedures for school audits.
Repeals provision requiring the department to report quarterly to the interim joint committee on education on (1) information about the estimated error of the accountability index, as well as information about the connections between index score changes and estimated changes in student performance levels and (2) the annual audit of portfolio scores in ways that serve to minimize the differences between teacher-produced scores and audit-generated scores.
Effective with the 2012-13 school year, requires state assessment results to be reported to schools no later than 75 days following the first day the assessment can be administered. Requires local targets for closing the achievement gap and school improvement plans to address those targets to be reported annually by October 1 (former provisions required adoption mid/late school year every other year). Directs the local superintendent to report to the commissioner of education if a school fails to meet its targets to reduce the gap in student achievement for any student group for 2 consecutive years (former provision required reporting after two successive biennia).
Pages 24-31 and 32-35 of 76: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 4, 5 and 7
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Accountability |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that whereas it is imperative that schools, administrators, teachers, parents and policymakers maintain high expectations for students, and it is important that there be an orderly transition from the current state assessment to the new assessment and accountability system implemented in 2011-12, the following conditions will apply:
(1) The state board of education must provide for an interim assessment process (described in section 19 of this act)
(2) The board must ensure that all student assessments and data collection and reporting necessary to meet the accountability and proficiency requirements for the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) are met
(3) The board must suspend the calculation of a state accountability index for 2008-09, 2009-10, and 2010-11.
During the interim period the following will apply for accountability purposes:
(a) NCLB Annual Yearly Progress results must be used to determine improvement of student achievement for both Title 1 and non-Title 1 schools
(b) The NCLB definitions must be applied to both Title 1 and non-Title 1 schools
(c) State level assistance and resources must be provided to Title 1 and non-Title 1 schools falling into the federal definitions of consequences in order to help schools improve student achievemen
(d) Results of the interim tests must be reported publicly.
Permits the state board to use math items developed using revised math content standards during the spring of 2010 and administer an initial math test, based on the revised standards during the 2010-11 testing period to meet NCLB requirements, if approval is granted by the U.S. Department of Education. Directs the state department of education to develop and implement interim program assessments of writing programs, practical living skills and career studies, and arts and humanities in all schools during the transition period. Directs the department to finalize the process for program assessments for implementation during the 2011-12 school year. Directs the department and state board to ensure that teachers, administrators and local board members are well informed of pending changes in the assessment and accountability system during the transition period and continue to stress the importance of the quality of opportunities for all students.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 18
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the the state board of education and the state department of education, prior to the development and implementation of a new state assessment system for 2011-12, to provide for a systematic interim process that will lead to a new state student assessment program. Provides the system will continue to include the high school readiness examination in grade 8, the college readiness examination in grade 10, and the ACT in grade eleven 11. Provides the current state criterion-referenced test that meets the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, excluding tests for arts and humanities, practical living skills and career studies, and writing portfolios, will continue to be given for the same subjects in the same grades in the 2008-09, 2009-10, and 2010-11 school years until the new assessment program is implemented in the 2011-12 academic year. Directs the department, during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years, to reduce the length of the test by reviewing and eliminating unneeded test items.
Provides that during the 2009-10 and the 2010-11 academic years, in addition to the state criterion-referenced test, there will be a new stand-alone norm-referenced test in reading and math in grades 3-7, that must be valid and reliable at the individual student level. Directs the state board to promulgate administrative regulations outlining the procedures to be used during the interim testing process to ensure test security, including procedures for testing makeup days, and to comply with federal assessment requirements. Provides that during the interim, the testing window for the criterion-referenced test may be up to 7 days in 2008-09 and up to 6days during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years with additional makeup days as determined by the state board.
In the 2008-09 academic year, directs the department of education to provide each district with a test booklet and scoring sheets for arts and humanities, practical living skills and career studies that may be used by a local district for a local formative or summative evaluation. Provides that during the 2009-10 and the 2010-11 school years, the new stand-alone norm-referenced test in reading and mathematics in grades 3-7 must be given during the week before or the week after the established testing window. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 19
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the state department of education and state board, as they revise the state assessment and accountability system for implementation in 2011-12, to facilitate an extensive review of how exceptional children's needs are being met through the required student assessment process and how student assessment requirements for exceptional children potentially hamper or enhance intellectual and emotional growth of individual students. Directs the entities to assess how current assessment procedures for exceptional children and the reporting requirements affect school performance classifications and whether changes need to be made as the revised assessment and accountability system is developed. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 20
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals language referring to the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS). Directs the state board, using the revised content standards to be approved by December 15, 2010, to implement an annual statewide assessment system for implementation in the 2011-12 school year. Requires the board, in developing the assessment system, to also seek the advice of the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee within the Legislative Research Commission. Calls for the implementation of:
(1) Grades 3-8 criterion-referenced assessments in reading and math, augmented with a customized or commercially available norm-referenced test to provide national profiles
(2) Criterion-referenced assessments in science and social studies, to be administered once each in the elementary and middle grades, augmented with a customized or commercially available norm-referenced test to provide national profiles
(3) An on-demand writing assessment to be administered once in the elementary grades, twice in the middle grades, and twice in the high school grades
(4) An editing and mechanics test for writing, using multiple choice and constructed response items, to be administered once each in the elementary and middle grades, and twice in the high school grades
(5) A grade 8 high school readiness exam in English, reading, math and science; except the readiness assessment may be administered in grade 9 if the state board determines moving the test would be in students' best interest
(6) A criterion-referenced test in math, reading and science administered once during high school grades, that measures the depth and breadth of the academic content standards that are not covered in the ACT administered to all juniors
(7) A criterion-referenced social studies test administered once during high school grades, augmented with a customized or commercially available norm-referenced test to provide national profiles
(8) A grade 10 college-readiness test in English, reading, math and science
(9) The ACT, testing English, reading, math and science, administered in grade 11.
Adds that student scores on the grade 8 high school readiness or grade 10 college-readiness test indicate advanced work is required in English, reading or math must have intervention strategies for accelerated learning incorporated into his or her learning plan.
Provides the criterion-referenced assessments must have constructed response and multiple choice items, and that the nationally normed assessments must be multiple-choice. Permits the state board to adopt end-of-course exams in lieu of criterion-referenced tests. Provides that assessment results must be used to determine appropriate instructional modifications to allow all students to make continuous progress, including students who are advanced learners. Requires the state board to conduct periodic alignment studies that compare the norm-referenced tests with the breadth and depth of the standards. Authorizes the state board, based on the findings of these studies, to decrease the number of criterion-referenced items.
Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, requires all districts to administer the statewide assessments during the last 14 days of school. Provides testing may take no more than five days. Directs the state board to adopt regulations on the procedures to be used during the testing process to ensure test security, including procedures for testing makeup days. Requires the state board, in revising the assessment system for implementation in 2011-12, to ensure that a technically sound longitudinal comparison of the assessment results for the same students be made available.
New KRS 158.6453(1)(e) defines formative assessment as a process used by teachers and students during instruction to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students' achievement of intended instructional outcomes. Specifies formative assessments may be commercial assessments, classroom observations, teacher-designed classroom tests and assessments, and other processes and assignments to gain information about individual student learning.
Provides the assessment program may include formative and summative (i.e., semester- or year-end) assessments that:
(1) Measure student achievement in language, reading, English, mathematics, science and social studies
(2) Provide diagnostic information identifying individual students' strengths and academic deficiencies in the content areas
(3) Provide comparisons with national norms for math, reading, social studies, and science, and where available, comparisons to other states
(4) Provide teachers with information that can enable them to improve instruction for current and future students
(5) Provide longitudinal profiles for students
(6) Ensure school and district accountability for meeting state education goals.
Beginning with the 2011-12 school year, requires every school serving primary-level students to use developmentally appropriate diagnostic assessments and prompts to measure readiness in reading and mathematics. Provides the results must be used to inform teachers and parents of each student's skill level.
Adds that one use of Commonwealth school improvement grant funds may be to help teachers and administrators make better use of formative and summative, performance-based assessments.
Requires the assessment program to include state and local program reviews and audits in selected content areas. Provides that state and local program reviews and audits must provide schools with annual feedback on selected programs and serve as indicators of the quality of students' educational experiences. Requires program reviews and audits to provide recommendations for improving teaching and assessment, and to ensure school and district accountability for student achievement. Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, the state assessment program must include program reviews and program audits for arts and humanities, practical living skills and career studies, and the writing programs, the results of which to be included in the state accountability system.
Directs the department of eductation to provide guidelines for (1) arts and humanities programs, (2) practical living skills and career studies, and (3) effective writing programs, and for the integration of the arts and humanities and practical living skills and career studies guidelines into every school's curriculum. Also requires (1) practical living skills and career studies and (2) effective writing program guidelines to be integrated into the curriculum of all teacher preparation programs. Directs the department of education to establish (1) arts and humanities program, (2) practical living skills and career studies and (3) effective writing program criteria for use in program review and audit processes, along with the procedures recommended for local district and department program reviews and program audits. Requires the department to distribute the criteria and procedures for program reviews and audits to all schools and teacher preparation programs. Directs every district to conduct an annual program review, and the department of education to review every school's programs in these three areas within a two-year period. Requires every school-based decision making council to analyze its school's program review findings and determine how it will address program recommendations to improve the program for students. Requires the department to ensure that all schools and districts understand how the program review and audit results will be included in the accountability system, and to provide assistance to improve the quality of such programs.
Specifies that the writing program must incorporate a variety of language resources, technological tools and multiple opportunities for students to develop complex communication skills for a variety of purposes. Provides that writing portfolios must be part of any K-12 writing program, must be part of the required criteria for the writing program review and audit process, and must be maintained for each student, following the student from grade to grade and to any school the student may enroll in.
Requires the state board to adopt rules that prohibit inappropriate test preparation activities by district employees charged with test administration and oversight, including the issue of teachers being required to do test practice in lieu of regular classroom instruction and test practice outside the normal work day. Provides the revisions must include disciplinary sanctions that may be taken toward a school or individuals.
Amends KRS 158.816 to replace CATS with reference to revised assessment system (in provision requiring annual analysis of and report on achievement of technical education students who have completed or are enrolled in an at least 3-credit sequence of a technical program.
Pages 6-23 [Section 2(3)], 31-32 [Section 6], 40-42 [Section 9], and 44-45 [Section 11] of 76: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 2(3), 6, 9 and 11
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides that the general assembly finds the continuing high rates of postsecondary remediation totally unacceptable and an unwarranted additional expense to the state, students and parents who expect that completion of high school coursework should lead to successful entry and success in postsecondary education. Directs the council on postsecondary education, the state board and the department of education to develop a unified strategy to reduce college remediation rates by at least 50% by 2014 from what they are in 2010 and increase the college completion rates of students enrolled in 1 or more remedial classes by 3% annually from 2009 to 2014. Requires written plan to reduce college remediation rates and increase graduation rates to be prepared by May 15, 2010, and for the initial plan to be presented to the interim joint committee on education and the interim joint committee on appropriations and revenue during the 2010 interim. Requires the written plan to include:
(a) Yearly goals
(b) Action strategies that will be used
(c) Timelines
(d) Assigned responsibilities for carrying out the strategies;
(e) Reporting mechanisms.
Directs the agencies, during the preparation of the plan, to investigate whether the current requirements for assessing college readiness are providing needed information, whether additional diagnostic assessments are needed, particularly in high school-level math, and whether accelerated learning programs have actually been implemented as required by Section 6 of this act to address students' needs for instructional interventions in English, reading and math.
Requires the agencies to annually report the results of their efforts to the interim committees, and where appropriate, for the annual reports to include recommendations for legislative actions. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 21
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows a local board of education in a county identified as a federal disaster area because of Tropical Storm Ike and the severe weather storm of January and February of 2009 to request from the commissioner of education up to ten disaster days missed and require the commissioner to approve the request. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB322/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 322
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to students of civilian military employees; provides students of civilian military employees the same rights as students of military families under the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children if the parents are required to move to perform their job responsibilities, resulting in the students changing schools. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB39/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 39
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires a school principal to give up to 10 days excused school absence for children of Armed Forces servicemembers if the parent is stationed out of the country and is granted leave. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB124/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 124
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires a criminal records check for parent members of school-based decision making councils. Allows members to serve prior to the report being received, but but requires the member to be removed from the council if the report documents a record of a sex crime or criminal offense against a victim who is a minor, or as a violent offender. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB148/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 148
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that whereas writing is an essential skill for all public school students to master; and whereas the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years will be a transitional period for revising the content standards in all academic content areas and subsequently revising the state assessment and accountability system, writing portfolios must remain a required and important instructional tool, but will not be included in the accountability index during the 2008-09, 2009-10, and 2010-11 school years.
Requires each school-based decision making council during this transitional period to determine its writing program and to develop policies on the use of portfolios.
Provides that once the department of education provides the guidelines and program review requirements for implementation of program reviews of writing in the 2011-12 school year, each school must comply with all such requirements. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 16
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Renames the Education Cabinet the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet; amends various statutes to conform; confirms Executive Order 2008-530. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB78/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 78
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows school districts to apply to the commissioner of education to use capital outlay funds to purchase land, modify an existing school, and for maintenance or property insurance. Allows growth districts to apply for capital outlay funds for operating expenses for two years after a new school opens. Allows the levy for school facilities currently dedicated for the Facilities Support Program to be used to purchase land if approved. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB295/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 295
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Permits growth districts to request adjustments in the SEEK funds when average daily attendance in the current year for the 20-day school month with the most days in January exceeds the prior year's adjusted average daily attendance plus growth by at least 1%. Prescribes how the state portion of the SEEK program is calculated regarding the value of real estate. Authorizes the district to request to use capital outlay funds to purchase school buses or increased operational expenses. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB408/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 408
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--Site-Based Management |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires each school council to adopt policies related to mandated analysis of its program review findings and determining how it will address program recommendations to improve the arts and humanities, practical living skills and career studies, and the writing programs. Also requires each school council to annually review data on on state and local student assessments and program assessments, which are to be implemented by the 2011-12 school year.
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Title: S.B. 1 Section 12
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires the Kentucky High School Athletics Association, with assistance from the department of education, to staff and coordinate a study of sports safety to be completed no later than October 1, 2009. Identifies areas for the study to review. Sets forth members of the study work group. Directs the association to submit a written report to include findings and recommendations to the interim joint committee on education by October 30, 2009. Provides the report must include recommendations to improve the safety of students participating in high school athletics and any legislation that might be necessary to implement the recommendations.
Requires high school coaches to complete a sports safety course and pass the related end-of-course exam. Requires course content to include training in first aid, among other topics. Requires the state board or board-designated agency to establish a minimum timeline for a coach to complete the course; approve sports safety course providers; ensure providers are certified athletic trainers, registered nurses, physicians, or physician's assistants licensed to practice in the state; and establish the minimum qualifying score for successful course completion.
Beginning with the 2009-10 school year, requires at least one person who has completed the sports safety course to be at every high school athletic practice and competition. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB383/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 383
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
High School--College Readiness |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Within 30 days from the effective date of this Act, requires each postsecondary institution in the state to plan and implement a process to develop core academic content standards for reading and mathematics for introductory courses. Specifies that the process must ensure that secondary-level educators are engaged with the postsecondary education faculty and other content specialists in order that the standards at each educational level are vertically aligned. Requires all core academic standards for mathematics and reading in introductory courses to be completed by December 15, 2010 with a target completion date of December 15, 2009 for the mathematics standards.
Urges the Council on Postsecondary Education, the department of education, and the postsecondary education institutions to merge activities, resources and dissemination efforts as is practical to eliminate duplication of effort and conflicting recommendations.
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Title: S.B. 1 Section 15
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the Kentucky Department of Education, in collaboration with the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), to implement a process to revise the state content standards in reading, language arts including writing, mathematics, science, social studies, arts and humanities, and practical living skills and career studies. Provides that revisions to the content standards must:
1. Focus on critical knowledge, skills, and capacities needed for success in the global economy
2. Result in fewer, but more in-depth standards to facilitate mastery learning
3. Communicate expectations more clearly and concisely to teachers, parents, students and citizens
4. Be based on evidence-based research
5. Consider international benchmarks
6. Ensure that the standards are aligned from elementary to high school to postsecondary education so that students can be successful at each education level.
Provides that the revision process, jointly organized by the commissioner of education and the president of the CPE, must engage K-12 teachers in discussions with postsecondary faculty. Requires that the process also include business and industry professionals actively engaged in career fields dependent on the various content areas, and others as deemed appropriate by the commissioner and the president. Directs the department to consider standards that have been adopted by national content advisory groups and professional education consortia.
Requires the standards to be widely disseminated statewide to various stakeholders, including K-12 and postsecondary faculty and administrators, parents, citizens, private professionals in the content areas, and others for comment and recommendations, to ensure that the specifications enumerated above are met. Requires the commissioner of education and the CPE president to ensure that the standards submitted to the state board for approval are aligned with postsecondary course and assessment standards for the gateway areas of reading and mathematics. Directs the council also to review the proposed academic standards in all other content areas and provide written recommendations as needed to ensure alignment with postsecondary requirements.
Directs the department to disseminate the new content standards to K-12 schools, postsecondary faculty in the respective content areas, and teacher programs within 30 days of state board approval. Requires the state board to approve the revised standards by December 15, 2010.
Directs the department of education to offer statewide training sessions for for existing teachers and administrators on how to:
1. Integrate the revised content standards into classroom instruction
2. Better integrate performance assessment of students within their instructional practices
3. Help all students use higher-order thinking and communication skills.
Directs the education professional standards board, in cooperation with the Kentucky Board of Education and the CPE, to coordinate training sessions on the revised standards for faculty in all teacher preparation programs. Requires the education professional standards board to ensure that all teacher preparation programs use the revised standards and that all teacher interns have experience planning classroom instruction based on the revised standards. Directs the CPE, in cooperation with the department of education and postsecondary education institutions, to coordinate information sessions on the revised standards for faculty teaching in the various content areas.
Amends the duties of the Council on Postsecondary Education. Requires the council to:
(1) Participate with the department of education, board of education and postsecondary institutions to ensure that academic content requirements for successful entry into postsecondary education programs are aligned with high school content standards and that students who master the high school academic content standards shall not need remedial courses. Requires the council to monitor the results on an ongoing basis.
(2) Cooperate with the department of education and the education professional standards board to in providing information sessions to selected postsecondary education content faculty and teacher educators of the high school academic content standards.
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Title: S.B. 1 Section 2(2) and 13
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Public Involvement |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Relates to community education; deletes obsolete language; clarifies that state grant funds are to be used for local districts to employ one full-time community education director, and to provide professional development training to all state-funded community education directors. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB198/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 198
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Provides that whereas the quality of writing instruction is directly related to how well teachers are prepared in their teacher preparation programs and how confident they are in the writing process; and whereas some teachers have expressed tentativeness and discomfort in teaching writing to their students, the education professional standards board and the department of education must take actions during the 2009 and 2010 calendar years to improve instruction at the pre-service levels and to improve the ability to teach writing to existing teachers. Requires the following to be completed at a minimum:
(1) Using results from the state writing assessments, including previous results of audits of writing portfolios, the department of education and appropriate partners must identify any major weaknesses that may be attributed to the quality of writing instruction and consider where and how these skills should best be taught to teachers
(2) The education professional standards board must conduct an analysis of the current pre-service writing instruction requirements and determine how writing instruction for prospective teachers can be improved
(3) The education professional standards board must consider the feasibility of requiring a course in teacher preparation programs in the teaching of writing
(4) The department of education must review the availability of professional development opportunities to help teachers learn how to improve writing instruction, and to use available resources, including the continuance of writing academies and writing workshops, to ensure that training for developing and evaluating high-quality writing portfolios and writing persuasive letters and articles, as well as poetry, short stories, memoirs, and personal narratives is available to existing teachers
(5) The department of education must provide training to administrators to help them provide leadership and support for an effective writing program in their schools.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 17
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds provision that teacher professional development programs must be based on teacher needs. Makes inclusion of specific components in teacher professional development programs mandatory instead of optional. Adds the following areas of mandatory teacher professional development programs:
--Strategies to provide continuous student progress
--Differentiated instruction
--Assessment literacy
--Integration of performance-based student assessment into daily classroom instruction.
Replaces provision that teacher professional development may address phonics with provision that teacher professional development must include instruction in reading, including phonics, phonemic awareness, comprehension, fluency and vocabulary.
Repeals KRS 156.095(4) requirement that the department its regional service centers, in addition to collaboration with postsecondary education institutions, education cooperative and consortia, and professional education organizations, to provide local district personnel with access to high quality programming.
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Title: S.B. 1 Section 8
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds provision that if funds are insufficient during any fiscal year, the higher education assistance authority must give priority consideration to loan forgiveness for teachers who have outstanding loan balance eligibility for Best in Class loans issued prior to June 30, 2008.
Adds new section providing that, in the event that there are insufficient funds for the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to provide loan forgiveness for an eligible program participant, the authority must negotiate an extended repayment schedule upon an eligible participant's request. The negotiated schedule must be in compliance with federal loan requirements. Provides an eligible program participant in this repayment schedule cannot forfeit eligibility for other loans or scholarships that become available.
Urges the governor to encourage congressional delegates to provide federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds or other federal funds to enable the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to honor its commitment to provide loan forgiveness for eligible program participants. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/HB480/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 480
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 03/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the state department of education to communicate to districts and schools that decisions about math textbook purchases may be delayed until after the math academic standards have been revised as required by Section 2 of this act. Requires the department to allow off-list purchases to ensure that textbooks selected align with the revised math standards. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB1/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 1 Section 22
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends rules regarding content and distribution of school and district report cards. Provides that as accurate, reliable data become available from student information systems, the department of education will link school, district and state data to the school and district report cards, including existing reports, participation, and performance in Advanced Placement courses, the issuance of commonwealth diplomas, participation in gifted and talented programs and participation in special education with instructional and testing accommodations, all disaggregated to the extent permitted under KRS 160.700-160.730, which protects the confidentiality of an individual student's educational records. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/703/005/140reg.htm
Title: 703 KAR 5:140
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment--Accommodations |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes procedures for the inclusion of special student populations in the State-required assessment and accountability programs. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/703/005/070reg.htm
Title: 703 KAR 5:070
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Adopted 02/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes requirements for extended school services. Defines "A5 program" as an alternative program with no attendance boundaries, serving dropouts returning to an alternate educational environment, potential dropouts, discipline problem students, nontraditional students (e.g., students who have to work during the school day), students needing emotional or psychological treatment and other at-risk students. Clarifies that "extended school services" are for students unlikely to achieve proficiency, transition to the next level of learning successfully, or be able to meet the academic expectations in 703 KAR 4:060 without additional time or differentiated opportunity to learn. Adds that "extended school services" also includes instructional and support services provided as interventions included in the student's intervention plan, in primary through grade 5, or in the student's Individual Learning Plan, in grades 6-12, to ensure that the student remains in school and is on track to meet goals for postsecondary education and career after high school. Provides definitions for "formative assessment," "individual learning plan" and "interim or benchmark assessments." Adds community based mentoring and academic advising to noninstructional activities that may be characterized as "support services."
Clarifies that extended school services (ESS) are to to provide additional time and differentiated opportunity to learn in which rigorous academic and enrichment content are aligned with individual student needs to improve struggling students' performance. Provides that priorities for ESS must be placed on designing and delivering services to students at academic risk with specific objective that students are able to:
(1) Progress from grade to grade with their cohort
(2) Exit elementary school ready to meet middle school-level academic expectations
(3) Exit middle school ready to meet high school-level academic expectations
(4) Exit high school ready to meet academic expectations of postsecondary education and the workplace, with particular emphasis on literacy and mathematics.
Specifies that the extended school services provided to a student shall be planned, documented and evaluated through the intervention plan, at primary through grade 5, or in the student's Individual Learning Plan, in grades 6 through 12. Removes existing language on components that the instructional program for extended services must include. Requires the instructional program for ESS to include
(1) diagnostic assessments to identify areas of greatest academic need,
(2) Development of goals, in consultation with classroom teachers, for eliminating the identified academic need, including timelines and specific measurable outcomes
(3) Formative and summative assessments to facilitate student progress and to determine if the student has achieved the learning goals of the intervention plan
(4) Instructional strategies that are varied and that do not replicate practices that have proven to be ineffective for the student in the traditional classroom
(5) A plan for collaboration and consistent use of interventions among the teachers supporting the student in core academic classes and those providing supports through extended school services
(6) Counseling and academic advising to remove barriers to achievement
(7) Regular communication with the parent or guardian
Provides that the ESS instructional program may be operated during the regular school day or in night programs.
Specifies ESS must provide differentiated opportunity to learn. Directs certified staff to plan, deliver and evaluate extended school services instruction and supports in collaboration as part of a student's Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
Requires teachers providing instruction in extended school programs to be provided with professional development on effective instructional strategies for meeting the needs of at-risk students and use of formative assessment strategies to monitor progress. Requires certified staff to supervise noncertified tutors.
Provides that students may be identified as in need of extended school services based on student performance on high school, college or workforce readiness assessments required by KRS 158.6459
Requires districts solicit input from parents and the community to identify potential barriers to participation. Requires that identified barriers be addressed through engagement with community partners or off-campus locations of after school, weekend or evening services.
Provides "A6 program" means that unique line for a school that starts in the biennium ending with the school year 2009-10 at one standard error of measurement below the school's baseline accountability index to a point that is one standard error of measurement below 80 on the accountability index scale in the biennium ending with the school year 2013-14, with the calculated points defining this line rounded to the nearest tenth. If a school's baseline is above 80, the assistance line means a horizontal line at 80 minus one standard error of measurement.
Title: 704 KAR 3:390
Source: www.lexis.com |
Finance--District |
Adopted 01/2009 |
P-12 |
State law already requires each local board of education treasurer to be bonded in accordance with Kentucky Board of Education administrative regulations. This administrative regulation establishes a penal sum for the bond of treasurer and requires the bonding of other school employees such as the finance officer and others holding similar positions who are responsible for district funds or who receive and expend funds on behalf of the school district. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/003/080.htm
Title: 702 KAR 3:080
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Adopted 01/2009 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the commissioner of education will approve a district's request for approval of an innovative alternative school calendar provided it meets criteria established in rules and is designed to improve teaching and learning in the district. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/007/130.htm
Title: 702 KAR 7:130
Source: www.lexis.com |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Adopted 01/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds provisions relating to default on a repayment obligation under the teacher scholarship program.
Title: 11 KAR 8:030 and :040
Source: www.lexis.com |
Business Involvement |
Issued 12/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes the state Commission on Philanthropy to explore new opportunities for creative solutions to the state's systemic challenges. Provides for an initial focus on early childhood education and child health.
Title: E.O. 2008-1273
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Adopted 10/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends school principal certification requirements. Deletes pre-existing prerequisites. States that new prerequisites include:
(1) a master's degree
(2) at least 3 years of documented teaching experience
(3) a written statement of the candidate's knowledge and skills regarding ability to improve student achievement; leadership; and advanced knowledge of curriculum, instruction, and assessment
(4) An agreement from a school district pledging support that includes opportunities for the candidate to participate in a high quality practicum experience. The practicum must include specified components.
Adds section regarding principal preparation programs. Provides that all principal preparation programs approved or accredited by the education professional standards board prior to May 31, 2009 shall no longer be approved or accredited as of December 31, 2011, and must cease admitting new candidates after December 31, 2011. Permits an institution with a principal preparation program approved by the education professional standards board before May 31, 2009 to submit a redesigned program for approval beginning May 31, 2009. Allows an institution's redesigned principal preparation program to become operational beginning January 1, 2010, if the institution submits a redesigned principal preparation program for review and receives approval of the redesigned program from the education professional standards board. Directs the education professional standards board to appoint a principal preparation program redesign review committee to conduct reviews of redesigned principal preparation programs submitted for approval between May 31, 2009 and December 31, 2012.
Beginning May 31, 2009, in addition to the requirements established in 16 KAR 5:010, Section 22, directs the educator preparation unit to prepare and submit to the education professional standards board for each principal preparation program for which the institution is seeking approval a concise description of the preparation program. The description must provide the following information:
(1) Signed collaborative agreements with school districts that include joint screening of principal candidates by both district and university; joint identification of potential program leaders and mentors; district and university codesign and codelivery of courses; and the manner in which the principal preparation program is based on the identified leadership needs of each district.
(2) The protocol for screening applicants that ensures the identification and admission of high quality candidates into the program
(3) A matrix that illustrates the alignment between specified standards and performance indicators and the program's curriculum and field experiences
(4) A syllabus for each of the program's required courses
(5) The program's plan to collaborate with academic disciplines and programs outside of the field of education in order to supplement the candidate's knowledge and skills set
(6) The program's plan to collaborate with each district in providing high quality field experiences that enhance courses throughout the entire program; ensure that the candidate has a continuum of school-based experiences that range from observing, to participating, to leading; and expose the candidate to diverse student populations and school environments.
(7) The program's plan to use rigorous formative and summative evaluations of each candidate's knowledge and skills to advocate, nurture, and sustain a school culture that promotes and supports high levels of learning for all students; and knowledge and skills to manage a school for efficiency, accountability, and safety
(8) The program's plan to require all candidates to conduct a capstone project and defend it to a panel of program faculty and practicing school administrators at the end of Level I preparation.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/016/003/050.htm
Title: 16 KAR 3:050
Source: www.lexis.com |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 09/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends the standards for admission to an educator preparation. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/016/005/020.htm
Title: 16 KAR 5:020
Source: www.lexis.com |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes new retirement requirements and benefit multipliers for Kentucky Employees' Retirement System retirement plans. Requires the establishment of a formal education program for members of the board of trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Kentucky. In order to improve public transparency regarding the administration of the system, directs the board of trustees to adopt a best practices model by posting specified information to the retirement system's Web site. Provides term limits for retirement system board of trustees members. Sets sick leave maximum for retirement purposes for school employees and teachers.
Provides that a retired member who returns to to full-time employment in a position covered by the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System must receive no annuity payments, waive his/her medical insurance coverage with the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System during the period of reemployment, and receive the medical insurance coverage offered by the member's active employer to the other members of the retirement system employed by the active employer. Provides such a member may make contributions to his/her retirement annuity.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08SS/HB1/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 1A
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Adopted 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes uniform procedures for approval of innovative alternative school calendars. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/007/130reg.htm
Title: 702 KAR 7:130
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Defines "nonoffender" as a child alleged to be dependent, neglected, or abused and who has not been otherwise charged with a status or public offense. Specifies that "status offenses" by a minor include beyond the control of the school or parents, habitual truancy and tobacco and alcohol offenses. Prohibits a nonoffender or child in violation of a statute or local ordinance pertaining to curfew from being detained in a secure juvenile detention facility or a juvenile holding facility. Allows a status offender or alleged status offender to be detained in a secure juvenile detention facility, a juvenile holding facility, or in a nonsecure setting approved by the Department of Juvenile Justice, for up to 48 hours pending the child's next court appearance. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB384/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 384
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Ernie Marx Resolution. Directs the department of education to review Holocaust and genocide curricula developed by other states and review the state core content at the elementary, middle, and high school levels to determine places where the study of the Holocaust and genocide may be included. Requires the department to develop a curriculum guide that outlines age-appropriate and course-related material and activities teachers may use to teach the history of the Holocaust. Requires the department to submit a final report and curriculum guide on study of the Holocaust and genocide to the state board for consideration by March 2009. Requires that the curriculum guide be disseminated to local schools for the 2009-2010 school year.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HJ6/bill.doc
Title: H.J.R. 6
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to use of local district capital outlay funds. Authorizes a district to submit a request to the commissioner of education to use capital outlay funds for maintenance expenditures or for the purchase of property insurance in fiscal year 2008-2009 and fiscal year 2009-2010 without forfeiture of the district's participation in the School Facilities Construction Commission Program. Authorizes a district to submit a request to the commissioner of education to use funds from the per pupil capital outlay allotment to purchase land for a new school or to modify an existing school if the project is included on the district facility plan for completion within eight years. Allows a district that has experienced an increase in adjusted average daily attendance of 20% or more over a five-year period to submit a request to the commissioner of education to use capital outlay funds for the operation of a new school for the first two years following its opening. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB514/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 514
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Governance--Site-Based Management |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Existing law requires the school council to fill principal vacancies by selecting the new principal from individuals recommended by the local superintendent. New provision requires the superintendent to provide additional applicants upon request when qualified applicants are available.
Provides that if the vacancy for the position of principal occurs in a school that has an index score that places it in the lowest third of all schools below the assistance line and the school has completed a scholastic audit that includes findings of lack of effectiveness of the principal and school council, the superintendent must appoint the principal after consulting with the school council. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/SB86/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 86
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, requires a screening by a dentist, physician or registered nurse and a student dental health certificate for elementary or secondary enrollment. Requires a child to be referred to a licensed dentist if a dental screening or examination performed by anyone other than a licensed dentist identifies the possibility of dental disease. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB186/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 186
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
As funding becomes available, authorizes a supplemental grant program to fund the employment of a licensed physician or nurse to provide health services, including supplemental classroom instructional services related to health, in a family resource or youth services center. Provides that the supplemental grant program must be managed by the cabinet for health and family services, and allows schools with a family resource or youth services center to apply for grant funds. Provides that supplemental grant must not exceed 50% of a district's grant to implement or continue family resource and youth services centers and must not reduce the grant amount to the district. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB640/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 640
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Provides that family resource and youth services centers must provide services to enhance a student's ability to succeed in school. Provides that the most economically disadvantaged students and families must receive priority status for receiving services. Provides that family resource centers must be located in or near every elementary school in the state in which at least 20% of the student body are eligible for free/reduced lunch. Provides family resource centers must promote identification and coordination of existing resources, and must include the following core components for each site:
(a) Full-time preschool child care for 2- and 3-year-old children
(b) After-school child care for children ages 4-12, with full-time child care during the summer and on other days when school is not in session
(c) Families in training, which shall consist of an integrated approach to home visits, group meetings, and monitoring child development for new and expectant parents
(d) Family literacy services or a similar program designed to provide opportunities for parents and children to learn together and promote lifelong learning
(e) Health services or referrals to health services, or both.
Provides that youth services centers must be located in or near each school in the state, except elementary schools, in which at least 20% of the student body are eligible for free/reduced lunch. Provides youth services centers must promote identification and coordination of existing resources, and must include the following core components for each site:
(a) Referrals to health and social services
(b) Career exploration and development
(c) Summer and part-time job development for high school students
(d) Substance abuse education and counseling
(e) Family crisis and mental health counseling.
Establishes a grant program for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to award grants to eligible school districts to establish or maintain family resource or youth services centers. Provides that a family resource or youth services center that receives funding for one year or more is not ineligible for funding based solely on the percent of the student body eligible for free/reduced lunch unless the percent of the student body eligible for free/reduced lunch is below 20% for 5 consecutive years. Specifies that a school district may not operate a family resource center or a youth services center that provides abortion counseling or makes referrals to a health care facility for the purpose of seeking an abortion.
Directs the division of family resource and youth services centers to promulgate administrative regulations to implement requirements for applications for continuation funding of a family resource or youth services center and establish a continuing education program for coordinators and staff. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/SB192/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 192
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Includes in the list of schools in which a student can enroll and receive a tuition grant an approved out-of-state postsecondary education institution licensed by the Council on Postsecondary Education to operate in the state and that is accredited by a recognized regional accrediting association and whose institutional programs are not composed solely of sectarian instruction.
Beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, requires all independent colleges and universities, as well as all out-of-state postsecondary education institutions licensed by the Council on Postsecondary Education to operate in the state, and whose institutional programs are not composed solely of sectarian instruction, to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to remain an eligible institution in which a student may enroll and receive a Kentucky tuition grant. Requires programs or campuses of any out-of-state postsecondary education institution licensed by the Council on Postsecondary Education to operate in the state and whose institutional programs are not composed solely of sectarian instruction, but in which accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is not an option, to be reviewed and approved by the Council on Postsecondary Education based on accreditation criteria that mirrors Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation criteria in order to qualify as an eligible institution in which a student may enroll and receive a Kentucky tuition grant.
Authorizes each two- and four-year public postsecondary institution that provides in-state tuition for nonresident children of graduates to provide the same in-state tuition for nonresident siblings of graduates. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB694/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 694
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES) eligibility. Defines on track to graduate as having completed the proportion of courses necessary to complete a four-year program in four years or a five-year program in five years. Provides that a student may retain the maximum award amount for subsequent award periods if the student has at least a 2.5 GPA and is on track to graduate. Provides that beginning in the 2010-2011 school year, each participating institution must certify to the authority at the close of each award period whether a KEES recipient who initially enrolled in college in 2009-2010 or thereafter is on track to graduate. Requires each participating institution to notify its students of their terms of eligibility. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/SB75/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 75
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the higher education assistance authority to extend the expiration of a student's eight academic terms and five-year eligibility for a Kentucky educational excellence scholarship (KEES) for a student on active duty status in the U.S. armed forces or other forms of service, for the total number of years during which the student was on active duty status. Requires the number of months served on active duty status to be rounded up to the next higher year to determine the maximum length of eligibility extension allowed. Provides that a student whose eligibility expired prior to the effective date of this legislation due to the former three year time limit on eligibility extensions must have his or her eligibility reinstated for the number of years beyond the three years during which he or she was on active duty status, and for the number of months served on active duty status to be rounded up to the next higher year to determine the maximum length of eligibility extension allowed. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/SB2/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 2 - Section 24
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Participation--Admissions Requirements |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Defines "Advanced science and mathematics" as Advanced Placement (AP) biology, calculus, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, and physics, and International Baccalaureate (IB) biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental systems, mathematical studies, further mathematics and physics.
Creates the science and mathematics advancement fund, to be administered by the department of education. Provides that funds may be used to provide:
1. Payment of student fees for AP and IB exams
2. Scholarships for high school students to take advanced science and mathematics courses through the Kentucky Virtual High School when those courses are not offered at the school in which they are enrolled
3. Two-year grants to high schools to support the start-up of advanced science and mathematics courses
4. Two-year renewable grants to middle schools to support accelerated student learning in science and mathematics
5. Grants to districts to develop and implement an energy technology engineering career track
6. Professional development opportunities, and payment of expenses and stipends for participation, for elementary school teachers to deepen their content knowledge and improve instructional practice in science and mathematics.
Directs the department to use funds from the science and mathematics advancement fund to establish the High School Advanced Science and Mathematics Course Start-up Program, the Middle School Mathematics and Science Scholars Program, and the District Energy Technology Career Track Program for schools.
Provides that the purpose of the High School Advanced Science and Mathematics Course Start-up Program is to provide two-year grants to high schools to initiate at least one advanced math and science course. Provides that funds may be used to cover the costs of additional training for an advanced science and mathematics teacher and the purchase of classroom supplies, textbooks, laboratory equipment, and other instructional materials. Provides that schools receiving a grant must provide assurances that teachers of AP or IB courses supported by the grant participate in College Board-endorsed AP summer training institutes or International Baccalaureate-sponsored IB summer workshops, as available, and that all students taking AP and IB courses supported by the grant take the related AP or IB exam.
Provides that the purpose of the Middle School Mathematics and Science Scholars Program is to provide two-year renewable grants to middle schools to support intensive, accelerated student learning in mathematics and the sciences, through activities including to programs during the school day, after-school programs, Saturday programs, or multiweek summer sessions. Provides that the grant application must ensure that teachers participating in the grant have the skills to provide intensive, accelerated student learning in mathematics or the sciences and that they will receive ongoing, relevant professional development. Requires a middle school receiving a grant to collaborate with feeder elementary and high schools to share information on grant activities; strengthen alignment of curricula, content-knowledge expectations, and instructional practice between schools; and provide relevant professional development opportunities. Requires the accelerated learning program to include strategies to improve the math and science academic skills for all students for whom significant academic achievement gaps have been identified and to attract them into higher level mathematics and science courses. Requires that specific activities to recruit and enroll students from all racial and income groups in the school be conducted. Requires each grant applicant to provide assurances that the necessary resources will be allocated to help students in all subpopulations academically succeed in the accelerated learning program and to meet the enrollment goal that the number of students representing each racial and income group enrolled in the program not be less than or limited to the percentage of each group in the total school population. Provides that funds from the teachers' professional growth fund may provide moneys to teachers for professional development for teachers participating in grants awarded by the Middle School Mathematics and Science Scholars Program. Directs the Center for Middle School Academic Achievement to assist grant recipients of the Middle School Mathematics and Science Scholars Program with professional development for participating teachers. Requires the Center for Mathematics to advise the department and the state board on the establishment and implementation of the Middle School Mathematics and Science Scholars Program.
Provides that the purpose of the District Energy Technology Career Track Program is to provide grants to school districts to develop and implement an energy technology engineering career track across middle and high schools within the district as described in KRS 158.808.
Requires the state board to establish long-term and annual goals for increasing:
(a) The number of high schools providing rigorous curricula and making available accelerated classes and college credit for students
(b) The number and percentage of students enrolled in and completing AP and IB courses by content area
(c) The number and percentage of students taking the AP and IB exams in advanced science and math
(d) The number and percentage of students receiving a score of 3 or better on AP exams or 5 or better on IB exams in advanced science and math
(e) The number and percentage of free/reduced lunch students receiving a score of 3 or better on AP exams or 5 or better on IB exams
(f) The number of teachers successfully completing a College Board-endorsed AP or IB summer training institute
(g) The number of teachers with the knowledge and training needed to prepare students for high achievement on AP and IB exams in advanced science and math
(h) Other criteria determined by the board.
Requires the department of education to develop a program evaluation framework on the use of the science and mathematics advancement fund for the purposes set forth in statute. Requires the program evaluation framework to address the use of funds, the number of grants and awards, student achievement outcomes, and trends over time on the indicators established to measure progress against the statewide goals. Beginning in 2008, requires the department to submit an annual report to the state board and the interim joint committee on education.
By July 1, 2009, requires the department, in cooperation with teacher education institutions, to develop a training program for certified personnel to become on-line coaches to provide effective support to students enrolled in Kentucky Virtual High School courses. By July 1, 2010, requires at least one employee in each middle and high school to have successfully completed the on-line coaches training, with the cost of acquiring the training borne by the local district.
Directs the council on postsecondary education to create a STEM Initiative Task Force to provide leadership and strategic direction on a comprehensive, statewide STEM initiative to improve Kentucky's position for success in the knowledge-based economy by expanding and strengthening educational and economic development opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Provides the task force must be composed of representatives from the executive and legislative branches of government, K-12 and postsecondary education, professionals within the STEM disciplines, and the business community. Authorizes the task force to create a public or nonprofit corporation or contract with an existing nonprofit corporation to facilitate the public-private collaboration in the development and implementation of the STEM Initiative. Directs the task force to explore the critical relationship between STEM degree production and the state's knowledge-based economy and make recommendations to accelerate Kentucky's performance in the STEM disciplines.
Requires the task force to develop a comprehensive, statewide strategic plan and a business plan to improve STEM performance in government, business, and K-12 and postsecondary education. Requires that the strategic plan include:
(a) Energizing a statewide public awareness campaign to help Kentuckians understand the critical importance of STEM to their own economic competitiveness and that of the Commonwealth
(b) Creating incentives and a supportive environment for students, teachers, and institutions that pursue, succeed, and excel in the STEM disciplines throughout the P-20 educational pipeline
(c) Implementing international best practices in professional development programs for P-16 STEM teachers to increase the intensity, duration, and rigor of professional development
(d) Improving teacher preparation programs and encouraging people with undergraduate and graduate degrees in the STEM disciplines to enter the teaching profession
(e) Revolutionizing how STEM subjects are taught, learned, and assessed and implementing a statewide, research-based STEM curriculum that is aligned with global workforce and academic standards
(f) Engaging business, industry, and civic leaders to improve STEM education and skills in the Commonwealth and creating incentives for Kentucky businesses that employ and invest in STEM-educated students
(g) Developing an ongoing, coordinated, statewide STEM initiative that maximizes the impact of resources among government agencies, schools, colleges and universities, and businesses, and which is focused on developing and attracting STEM-related jobs in Kentucky
(h) Targeting energy sustainability problems and opportunities in Kentucky and the nation as a primary objective of statewide STEM enhancements
(i) Developing STEM mentoring programs that partner students in grades 5-12, their teachers, or both, with engineers, business professionals, college or university professors, university students, or others with expertise in the STEM disciplines to link academic coursework with the real world, underscoring the importance of rigorous academic preparation and encouraging pursuit of careers in the STEM disciplines
(j) Creating recognition awards and activities and financial support for individuals, businesses, or organizations that exhibit excellence in mentoring within the STEM disciplines.
Directs the STEM Task Force to develop a business plan aligned with the strategic plan which includes measurable benchmarks for progress in achieving the goals within the strategic plan for 1-, 3-, and 5-year time periods. Requires the initial business plan to be presented to the interim joint committees on appropriations and revenue and education by December 30, 2008. Requires the task force to review and revise the business plan as needed in subsequent years to further the purposes of the STEM Initiative. Establishes the Kentucky STEM Initiative fund to support the work of the STEM Initiative Task Force. Provides the department of education and the council on postsecondary education may expend available funds from other sources on the STEM Initiative.
Directs the state board to promulgate regulations on courses of study or educational experiences available to students in all middle and high schools to fulfill the prerequisites for courses in advanced science and mathematics. Specifies that every school must offer an AP, IB or dual enrollment course in both math and science. Provides that if funds are available, the department must provide an ACT preparation program to all public high school juniors. Requires each school report card to parents and the public to indicate for AP and IB, the courses offered, the number of students enrolled, completing, and taking the examination for each course, and the percentage of test-takers receiving a score of 3 or better on AP exams or a score of 5 or better on IB examinations. Requires the data to be disaggregated by gender, race, students with disabilities, and economic status, and to be included in the report card beginning with the 2009-2010 school year.
Requires the department to make available to middle and high schools information on the prerequisite content necessary for success in secondary courses, AP courses, and IB courses. Requires the department to provide sample syllabi, instructional resources and instructional supports for teachers that will assist in preparing students for more rigorous coursework. Provides instructional supports must include professional development for assisting students enrolled in the Kentucky Virtual High School or other virtual learning settings.
Provides that all students willing to accept the challenge of a rigorous academic curriculum must be admitted to AP courses, including AP courses offered through the Kentucky Virtual High School, IB courses, dual enrollment courses, and dual credit courses, if they have successfully completed the prerequisite coursework or have otherwise demonstrated mastery of the prerequisite content knowledge and skills as determined by measurable standards. Provides that if a school does not offer an AP course in a particular subject area, the school must permit a qualified student to enroll in the AP course offered by the Kentucky Virtual High School and receive credit toward graduation. Provides that effective with the 2008-2009 school year, students enrolled in AP or IB courses in the public schools must have the cost of the examinations paid by the department.
Includes participation in the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky at Western Kentucky University as a dual credit option, and specifies that students who attended the academy are eligible for a Kentucky educational excellence scholarship (KEES) award. Authorizes the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky to award a diploma to any student who completes his or her high school program at the academy. Provides that if the academy issues a diploma, the board of regents of the university must provide to the commissioner of education a letter of assurance that the program of study completed by its students, in combination with previously earned secondary credits, meets the minimum high school graduation requirements established by the state board. Authorizes a local district to award a joint diploma with the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky to any student who was enrolled in a district high school and completed his or her high school program at the academy. Requires the academy and the home school district to ensure that student transcripts from each institution accurately reflect the dual credit coursework.
Beginning with the 2008-2009 academic year, requires the higher education assistance authority to commit to provide a supplemental KEES award for achievement on AP and IB exams to an eligible high school student whose family was eligible for free or reduced-price lunch for any year during high school enrollment. Awards range between $200-$300 for AP exam scores between 3 and 5 and IB exam scores between 5 and 7. Requires every high school and the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky to submit to the higher education assistance authority each student's family eligibility status |
Religion |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
By September 30 of each year, requires the secretary of the transportation cabinet to report to the general assembly's interim committee on appropriations and revenue the following information for those fiscal court applications received by the transportation cabinet:
(a) The annual cost to transport an individual pupil by local school district
(b) The total annual cost to transport all pupils
(c) The number of nonpublic school pupils transported by district
(d) The amount of money needed to fund actual costs to transport the projected number of nonpublic pupils over the next biennium
(e) A history by year of participating counties requesting funding to transport nonpublic students, the funding requested by the counties, and the actual funding provided to the counties. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB655/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 655
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires any school or local board employee who knows or has cause to believe that a student has been the victim of a violation of any felony offense committed by another student on school premises, on school-sponsored transportation, or at a school-sponsored event to immediately cause an oral or written report to be made to the principal of the victim's school. Requires the principal to notify the parents when the student is involved in a reported incident. Specifies information the principal must file with the local school board and the local law enforcement agency or the Department of Kentucky State Police or the county attorney within 48 hours of the original report, and requires the agency receiving the report to investigate the matter referred to it. Provides immunity for reports made in good faith.
Requires districts to report and the statewide data collection system to include all incidents in which a student has been disciplined by the school for a serious incident, including the nature of the discipline, or charged criminally for specified offenses on school premises, on school-sponsored transportation or at school functions. Requires all data to be subject to the confidentiality provisions of the the state and federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Provides that parents must have the right to inspect or challenge personally identifiable student records as permitted under FERPA. Requires all data collected per these requirements on an individual student committing a reportable incident to be placed in the student's disciplinary record.
Requires the department of education to provide the office of education accountability and the education assessment and accountability review subcommittee with an annual statistical report of the number and types of incidents of: (1) Violence and assault against school employees and students; (2) Possession of guns or other deadly weapons on school property or at school functions; (3) Possession or use of alcohol, prescription drugs, or controlled substances on school property or at school functions; and (4) All incidents in which a student has been disciplined by the school for a serious incident, including the nature of the discipline, or charged criminally for specified violations on school grounds, on school-sponsored transportation, or at school functions. Requires that the report include all monthly data and cumulative data for each reporting year. Prohibits the report from containing information personally identifying any student.
Requires the department of education to distribute to all districts in every even-numbered year, beginning in 2008: (1) Statewide student discipline guidelines to ensure safe schools, including the definition of a serious incident for reporting purposes; (2) Recommendations designed to improve the learning environment and school climate, parental and community involvement in the schools, and student achievement; and (3) A model policy to implement reporting of student incidents, data collection, and harassment and intimidation provisions as required in this legislation. Requires each local board's code of acceptable student behavior and discipline to be updated at least every two years, with the first update being completed by November 30, 2008. Provides that each code must include:
1. Procedures for identifying, documenting, and reporting incidents of violations of the code and felony violations by any student against another student while on school premises, on school-sponsored transportation, or at a school-sponsored event
2. Procedures for investigating and responding to a complaint or a report of a violation of the code or of a felony incident on school grounds or at a school-sponsored event, including reporting incidents to the parents of the students involved
3. A strategy or method of protecting from retaliation a complainant or person reporting a violation of the code or a felony incident on school grounds or at a school-sponsored event
4. A process for informing students, parents, and school employees of the requirements of the code and enumerated other provisions, including training for school employees
5. Information regarding the consequences of violating the code specified reportable violations.
Provides that a student is guilty of harassment when the student, with intent to intimidate, harass, annoy or alarm another person, and while on school premises, on school-sponsored transportation, or at a school-sponsored event:
1. Damages or commits a theft of the property of another student
2. Substantially disrupts the operation of the school
3. Creates a hostile environment by means of any gestures, written communications, oral statements, or physical acts that a reasonable person under the circumstances should know would cause another student to suffer fear of physical harm, intimidation, humiliation or embarrassment.
Also provides that a student is guilty of "harassing communications" when, with intent to intimidate, harass, annoy, or alarm another person he or she communicates with or about another school student, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, the Internet, telegraph, mail, or any other form of electronic or written communication in a manner which a reasonable person under the circumstances should know would cause the other student to suffer fear of physical harm, intimidation, humiliation or embarrassment, and which serves no purpose of legitimate communication.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB91/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 91
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Students--Mobility |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Removes barriers for educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment; specifies course placement, timely enrollment and attendance requirements; determines eligibility requirements; facilitates on- time graduation; facilitates state coordination; establishes the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to provide oversight; provides oversight, enforcement and dispute resolution mechanisms. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/SB68/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 68
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Creates a certification incentive fund to provide grants for eligible recipients to conduct summer institutes. Specifies that the priority for the institutes in the 2008-2009 through 2011-2012 school years is the certification of teachers in high school mathematics, chemistry, integrated science, and physics, and middle school mathematics and earth science under option 7 of the alternative certification program, certification of a person in a field other than education to teach in elementary, middle or secondary programs. Provides that grant recipients may be nonprofit organizations, institutions, and agencies, including postsecondary education institutions, school districts, education cooperatives, and consortia of school districts. Requires the education professional standards board to determine priority for specific institutes at the end of the 2011-2012 school year.
Requires each individual completing a summer institute to have additional hours of formal instruction or assistance during the first year of teaching to reach the minimum number of clock hours. Provides that an alternative teacher certification candidate participating in the institute must not be required to participate in the teacher internship program until the second year of teaching. Requires the candidate to be assigned a teacher mentor by the grant recipient the first year of teaching, with payment of the teacher mentor coming from the summer institute grant.
Provides forgiveable loans to individuals accepted into an institute. Provides the loan will be forgiven if the participant teaches in a Kentucky public or certified nonpublic school for one year within the three years following the awarding of the loan. Also provides a stipend, equal to the loan award amount, for each individual who completes a summer institute. Provides that grant recipients and school districts may offer financial incentives to potential participants and individuals who complete an institute from fund sources other than the grant funds.
Provides that teachers' professional growth fund may be used to provide teachers with professional development that may lead to additional certification endorsements or renewal of certification. Adds that the professional development programs for which teachers may receive support from the fund must provide teacher participants with the opportunity to obtain certificate endorsements or extensions in critical shortage areas, with priority given to math and science through 2016, and in core content areas to their existing certifications through the TC-HQ process, established by the education professional standards board to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. Specifies that beginning June 1, 2010, through the 2015-2016 school year, priority for the use of funds from the teachers' professional growth fund must be for the purpose of increasing the number of certified math and science teachers. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/SB64/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 64
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to alternative teacher certification. Allows a five-year statement of eligibility for teaching to be issued to a veteran who has completed at least 10 years of active duty service, 10 years of service officially credited toward armed services retirement, or 10 years combination of such service. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB607/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 607
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2008 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the department of education to employ retired members in full-time or part-time nonteaching positions, including to serve on scholastic audit teams, and to provide technical assistance to schools and districts required under federal law. Specifies that the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System maximum determine the maximum number of retirees who may be employed in this manner. Requires that the return to work limitations set forth in KRS 161.603 and 161.605 apply to any retired member of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System who resumes employment as an adjunct instructor. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/HB470/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 470
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to employee interest in contracts between a public postsecondary education institution and a business; permits a governing board of a public postsecondary institution to adopt regulations establishing the conditions under which and the procedures whereby an employee may have an interest in a contract between the institution and a business. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/07RS/SB130/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 130
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Defines the term cellular telephone; prohibits the use of cellular telephones by a school bus driver; establishes the fine for using cellular telephone while driving a school bus. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/07RS/HB230/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 230
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Provides that for purposes of establishing a student's status as a truant, the student's attendance record is cumulative for an entire school year. Directs the state department of education to assure that the student information system facilitates the collection of student data and the transfer of education records among schools and districts. Directs a district to notify the Kentucky Department of Education when a new student enrolls in a school in the district. Directs the department, upon notification of a student's enrollment in a school, to forward all records for the student to the receiving district within 10 business days. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/07RS/HB145/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 145
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 04/2007 |
P-12 |
Exempts a student who qualifies for exception children services and had an individual education program developed, was retained in the primary school program, and had not completed four consecutive years or eight consecutive semesters of eligibility following the initial promotion from grade 8 to grade 9, from the age requirements for high school athletics. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/07RS/HB380/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 380
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Deletes the requirement that a local school district operate an alternative education program prior to the revocation of a student's operator's license, intermediate license, or instruction permit; requires that the application of any minor under the age of 18 for a license or permit include parental consent for the release of academic and attendance information required under KRS 159.051. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/07RS/HB32/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 32
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to economic development; declares an emergency; establishes the criteria for eligible companies that locate a project adjacent to a postsecondary education center to alternatively satisfy wage requirements; requires 90% of employees to receive base hourly wages and benefits equal to or greater than 200% of the federal minimum wage; requires the company to seek to provide meaningful employment opportunities for nontraditional students. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/07RS/HB468/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 468
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Increases the maximum amount of annual expenses for which local school board members can be reimbursed for meetings from $2,000 to $3,000 per calendar year. Clarifies that an elected member of a local school board is eligible for the health care coverage available to state employees. Directs that local board members' payments for the per diem and actual expenses be subject to deductions for membership dues, health insurance purchases, scholarship funds, and contributions to a political action committee.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/07RS/HB50/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 50
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Urges the state department of education to work with local school systems to ensure that educators are aware of the impact that living with Crohn's disease and irritable bowel disease has on students with the condition. Provides that educators should also be aware of the special need for access to restrooms by students with the disease in order to ensure that their educational attainment is not disrupted. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/07RS/HC141/bill.doc
Title: H.C.R. 141
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Waives the public higher education or vocational tuition of a spouse or child of a deceased or permanently and totally disabled veteran and who is under a certain age, for a period not in excess of 45 months. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/07RS/HB128/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 128
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
Adopted 10/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding effective Instructional Leadership Act. Regards criteria for the program. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/704/003/325.htm
Title: 704 KAR 3:325
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Adopted 10/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the requirements for the Kentucky Teacher Internship Program. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/016/007/010reg.htm
Title: 16 KAR 7:010
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Emergency Rule Adoption 08/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding a single assessment system with two accountability dimensions: one addressing the requirements of KRS 158.6455 to determine school classifications, and a second addressing the conditions necessary to conform to federal assessment and accountability requirements of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001." http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/703/005/020E.htm
Title: 703 KAR 5:020
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Adopted 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the standards for a school and district report card. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/703/005/140.htm
Title: 703 KAR 5:140
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Adopted 06/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules designating an agent for high school athletics. Addresses the financial planning and review processes for the agent. Incorporates by reference the bylaws, procedures and rules of the agent. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/702/007/065.htm
Title: 702 KAR 7:065
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires, on or before December 1 of each year, that the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee adopt an annual research agenda for the Office of Education Accountability. Provides that the agenda shall be amended to include studies directed by the General Assembly in the next succeeding session. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB581/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 581
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Reporting Results |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Section 1:
Requires the state assessment system, by the 2007-2008 school year, to include:
1. A high school readiness examination to assess English, reading, math and science in grade 8;
2. A college readiness examination to assess English, reading, math and science in grade 10;
3. The ACT college admissions and placement examination to assess English, reading, math and science, to be taken by all students in grade 11; and
4. Any other component necessary to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
These assessments are to be administered in lieu of a customized or commercially available norm-referenced test.
Provides that a student whose scores on the grade 8 high school readiness exam indicate a high degree of readiness for high school must be counseled to enroll in accelerated courses. Provides that a student whose scores on the grade 10 college readiness exam or grade 11 ACT indicate a high degree of readiness for college must be counseled to enroll in accelerated courses, with an emphasis on Advanced Placement (AP) courses.
Specifies that the department will pay for the initial ACT exam, but that the student must pay for additional ACT exams.
Provides that students in grades 10, 11 and 12, by the 2007-2008 school year, may take the WorkKeys assessments in reading for information, locating information, and applied mathematics, with the cost of the initial assessment paid by the department of education. Provides that a student whose scores on the WorkKeys assessments indicate that additional assistance is required in reading for information, locating information, or applied mathematics must have intervention strategies for accelerated learning incorporated into his or her learning plan. Provides that a student meeting the WorkKeys threshold established by the Cabinet for Workforce Development must be issued the appropriate Kentucky employability certificate.
Provides that the high school readiness assessment in grade 8, the college readiness assessments in grades 10 and 11, and the WorkKeys assessments are to be collectively known as the "Kentucky Work and College Readiness Examination" or "Readiness Examination."
Directs the department of education to conduct periodic studies comparing the standards in reading, mathematics, and science for middle and high school within the Kentucky core content for assessment and the concepts and content measured by the ACT and the high school and college readiness examinations. Provides that if the department determines that if the grade 8 high school readiness and grades 10 and 11 college readiness exams in reading, math and science are shown to provide direct measures of content standards and concepts identified in the Kentucky core content for assessment, the state board must seek the advice of the Office of Education Accountability, the School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council, and the National Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability regarding reducing the number of questions on the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System. Directs the department to continue to include open-response or multiple-choice items, or both, that assess student knowledge and skills in reading, mathematics, and science to the degree necessary for adequate coverage of the elements of the Kentucky core content for assessment not covered by the examinations.
Specifies the types of accommodations to be provided a student with a disability taking the ACT.
Requires the reporting system to include:
(1) An individual student report to parents for each 5th grade student summarizing the student's readiness in reading and math based on the student's 4th grade state assessment results. The school's 5th grade staff must develop a plan for accelerated learning for any student with identified deficiencies;
(2) An individual report for each student who takes a high school or college readiness exam that:
1. Provides the student's test scores;
2. Provides a judgment regarding whether or not a student has met or failed to meet the expectations for each standard assessed; and
3. Is designed to assist students, parents, and teachers to identify, assess, and remedy academic deficiencies prior to high school graduation; and
(3) A student's scores on the ACT examination or WorkKeys assessments. Requires scores from the state-sponsored ACT exam to be recorded on the student's official high school transcript.
Section 2:
Mandates that a high school student whose scores on the grade 8 high school readiness exam, on the grade 10 college readiness exam, or on the WorkKeys indicate that additional assistance is required in English, reading, or math must have intervention strategies for accelerated learning incorporated into his or her learning plan. Mandates that a high school student whose score on the state-administered ACT exam in English, reading, or math is below the system-wide standard established by the Council on Postsecondary Education for entry into a credit-bearing course at a public postsecondary institution without placement in a remedial course or an entry-level course with supplementary academic support must be provided the opportunity to participate in accelerated learning designed to address his or her identified academic deficiencies prior to high school graduation.
Requires a high school, in collaboration with its school district, to develop and implement accelerated learning that:
(a) Allows a student's learning plan to be individualized to meet the student's academic needs based on an assessment of test results and consultation among parents, teachers, and the student; and
(b) May include changes in a student's class schedule.
Directs the department of education, the council on postsecondary education, and public postsecondary institutions to offer support and technical assistance to schools and school districts in the development of accelerated learning. Provides that a student who participates in accelerated learning due to inadequate scores on the grade 8 high school readiness exam, the grade 10 college readiness exam, the WorkKeys or the ACT must be allowed to take the ACT exam a second time prior to high school graduation at the expense of the Kentucky Department of Education. The cost of any subsequent administrations of the achievement test shall be the responsibility of the student.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB130/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 130
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the Interim Joint Committee on Education to complete a study on how to effectively provide assistance to schools not meeting established goals for student achievement. Requires the study to be completed by October 15, 2006, with a written report, including findings and policy options, presented to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2006. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HC214/bill.doc
Title: H.C.R. 214
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define core courses. Requires the Kentucky Department of Education to begin developing standardized end-of- course (EOC) examinations in Algebra I, Algebra II and geometry and pilot the tests at the end of the 2007- 2008 academic year. Requires content teachers in the core courses and postsecondary faculty, including subject matter specialists, to be involved in the development and review of items for the exams. Requires EOCs to be available to schools in an on-line format if resources are available. Requires the department and districts to use end-of-course exams to promote increased student accountability and to determine the need for technical assistance, professional development, and other resources to improve instruction.
Requires the commissioner of education to report the findings of the pilot project and policy options to the Interim Joint Committee on Education.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB197/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 197
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Encourages the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish the Kentucky Youth Development Coordinating Council; establishes membership and permits the creation of subcommittees of the council; requires the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service to perform the administrative functions of the council; establishes the duties of the council; requires the council to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly as specified.
Includes among the council's duties collaboration with public and private partnerships to support statewide networks connecting quality and sustainable state and local youth development efforts, such as mentoring partnerships and after-school and extended-learning opportunities, and to leverage private, state, and federal resources to support these efforts; and encouraging state agencies and nonprofit organizations to collaborate on model programs and demonstration projects that promote youth and parental involvement, strengthen families, and focus on target populations of youth. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SJ184/bill.doc
Title: S.J.R. 184
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires a teacher who has been disciplined for illegal use of controlled substances to submit to random or periodic drug testing for up to 12 months after the disciplinary action as a condition of retaining employment. Provides that a teacher whose certificate has been suspended or revoked by the Education Professional Standards Board for illegal use of controlled substances must, as a condition of reinstatement or reissuance of the certificate, submit to drug testing in accordance with Education Professional Standards Board regulations. Adds that no teacher may be subject to drug testing unless and until it has been determined in an administrative or judicial proceeding that the teacher engaged in misconduct involving the illegal use of controlled substances.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB341/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 341 Section 4
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Attendance--Truancy |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to pupil attendance policies; permits an assistant to the director of pupil personnel to perform the required duties of the director of pupil personnel; requires that the school be notified of the home conditions of habitual truants rather than all students; requires documentation of the home conditions of the student and intervention strategies attempted in any action brought to enforce compulsory attendance laws. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB479/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 479
Source: http://www.lrc.ky.gov |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to reorganization; designates the Kentucky Workforce Investment Board as the sole state agency responsible for the administration of vocational and technical education and the supervision of the administration of vocational and technical education; permits the board to delegate responsibilities to the Office of Career and Technical Education; confirms Executive Order 2005- 327. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB57/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 57
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the Council on Postsecondary Education, the Kentucky Board of Education, and others to examine the current level of skills and knowledge of Kentucky students relating to the U.S. Constitution and democratic processes. Requires these entities to examine the curriculum requirements at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels for all Kentucky students; assessments of student knowledge at these levels and results of these assessments; requirements for teacher competencies in these areas; and other relevant data and information.
Requires these partners to develop strategies and a timeline for improving Kentucky students' knowledge and understanding of the U.S. Constitution and democratic processes and students' civic engagement, and to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education, by August 1 and December 1, 2007.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HJ145/bill.doc
Title: H.J.R. 145
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires all public schools to hold Veterans Day programs. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB47/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 47
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to reorganization; renames Education, Arts, and Humanities Cabinet as the Education Cabinet; creates new offices in the Education Cabinet; abolishes the Workforce Development Cabinet and create the Department of Workforce Investment in the Education Cabinet and transfers the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Education Professional Standards Board to the Education Cabinet. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB105/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 105
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires two petitioners for a candidate's nominating petition for election to a board of education. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB361/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 361
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires a school district to provide information on meningococcal meningitis disease and its vaccine to parents and guardians of students in grades 6 through 12 if other health information is also provided, and lists information to be included; requires the Department of Education, in cooperation with the Department for Public Health, to develop and make the information available to local school districts. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB475/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 475
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Encourages public schools to include age-appropriate education on the risks associated with exposure to ultraviolet rays within the existing health curriculum. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB589/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 589
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires the Department of Public Health to develop a statewide education, awareness and information program on hepatitis C, which may be incorporated into other existing health education programs. Provides that the program may include material to specifically address individuals who may be at high-risk of infection, including students. Requires the Department for Public Health to report on the hepatitis C education, awareness, and information program to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare by December 1, 2006, and every 6 months thereafter, or upon request of the committee. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB540/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 540
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Leadership |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Directs the executive director of the Education Professional Standards Board with the cooperation of the commissioner of education and the president of the Council on Postsecondary Education to establish an interagency task force to collaborate with public and private postsecondary education institutions to redesign preparation programs and the professional development of educational leaders. Requires redesigned programs for developing educational leaders to have:
(a) Recruitment and selection policies that ensure that persons with high leadership potential and talent are being prepared to lead Kentucky schools;
(b) Strong emphasis on developing the essential competencies necessary for improving the safe and efficient management of schools and increasing student achievement;
(c) A standards and research base with coherent goals, learning activities, and assessment around a shared set of values, beliefs, and knowledge about effective administrative practices;
(d) Provisions for field-based internships that incorporate problem-based learning and utilize cohort groups and mentors whenever possible and appropriate;
(e) Strong clinical training options throughout the programs that include extensive collaborations between postsecondary education institutions and school districts;
(f) Induction components for newly hired principals and other education leaders, which provide both collegial support and individual mentoring with documented evidence of the new principals' or other education leaders' abilities to focus on high levels of student learning, growth, and achievement;
(g) Provisions for high-quality professional development that strengthen current school leaders' capacity to work with faculty in changing school and classroom practices to increase student learning, growth, and achievement; and
(h) Support for working conditions that enable leaders to implement strong instructional leadership that improves opportunities for teaching and learning for all students.
Requires the interagency task force to provide a progress report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by October 1, 2007, and as requested thereafter.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HJ14/bill.doc
Title: H.J.R. 14
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Parent/Family |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Creates the KinCare Support Program, a centralized statewide service program to provide grandparents caring for minor grandchildren with information and referrals through a statewide toll-free telephone number. Requires the program to provide information on a wide variety of services, including educational services
Creates new section mandating the Administrative Office of the Courts to develop a standard power of attorney for the limited purpose of establishing authority to consent to medical treatment for a minor and to make school-related decisions for a minor. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB45/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 45
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires lockdown procedures to be established for school buildings; requires students, staff, and parents to be made aware of lockdown procedures; requires lockdown guidelines to be posted in schools; requires a lockdown emergency practice to be held once during each school year. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB206/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 206
Source: http://www.lrc.ky.gov |
School Safety--Expulsion/Suspension |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to expelled or suspended students. Defines "behavior which constitutes a threat" (and as such, allows a board to place a student in a state-funded agency program) as including assault, battery or abuse of others; the threat of force; being under the influence of drugs or alcohol; the use, possession, sale, or transfer of drugs or alcohol; or the carrying, possessing, or transfer of weapons or dangerous instruments; and any other behavior which may endanger the health or safety of others. Authorizes a local board to adopt a policy providing that if a student is suspended or expelled for any reason, or faces charges that may lead to suspension or expulsion but withdraws prior to a hearing, from any public or private school in this or any other state, the receiving district may review the details of the charges, suspension, or expulsion and determine if the student will be admitted, and if so, what conditions may be imposed upon the admission.
Authorizes a local board to adopt a policy providing that if a student is suspended or expelled for any reason, or faces charges that may lead to suspension or expulsion but withdraws prior to a hearing, from any public or private school in this or any other state, the receiving district may review the details of the charges, suspension, or expulsion and determine if the student will be admitted, and if so, what conditions may be imposed upon the admission. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB688/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 688
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires the department of education to conduct a study of the requirements for data security and a notification process when a breach of data security occurs, and to determine costs, benefits, feasibility and implications of adoption of specifications for statewide education data designed to facilitate the exchange of information among different instructional and administrative software applications at the local, state, and federal levels. Requires the department to convene a committee of stakeholders to guide completion of the study. Requires the committee to include representatives of large and small school districts, rural and urban school districts, the Kentucky Association of School Administrators, the Kentucky School Boards Association, and the Kentucky Association of School Superintendents. Requires a written interim report to be presented to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by August 2006 and a final written report to be sent to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by December 2006.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB341/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 341 Section 1 - 3
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Clarifies that a school district may advance a child through the primary program if he or she is at least five but less than six years old; allows the child to be classified as other than a kindergarten student for purposes of funding if the student is determined to have acquired the academic and social skills taught in kindergarten as determined by local board policy. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB35/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 35
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Prohibits the Education Professional Standards Board from awarding a a Rank I rating to a teacher who used national board certification to qualify if the certificate is revoked for misconduct or voided for other reasons. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB125/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 125
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov/ |
P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
Adopted 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes definitions and rules regarding the applicant selection process for the Early Childhood Development Scholarship Program.
11 KAR 16:001: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/011/016/001.htm
11 KAR 16:010: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/011/016/010.htm
Title: 11 KAR 16:001 and 16:010
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to telecommunications equipment for the deaf; relates to telecommunications devices for the deaf; changes the term telecommunications device for the deaf, or TDD, to specialized telecommunications equipment and defines the term; changes the term TDD distribution program to Telecommunications Access program. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB88/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 88
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Students |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to students called to military active duty; requires that a student called to federal military active duty shall receive credit for academic work and reasonable time to make up missed work; prohibits discrimination of such students. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB80/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 80
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Provides that there shall be no loss of income or benefits to a teacher or school employee for work time lost because of personal injury incurred by the teacher or employee as the result of an assault while in the performance of assigned duties for a period of one year subsequent to the assault. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/SB51/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 51
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Adds a member of the state National Guard or a Reserve component ordered to active duty by the President of the United States to the list of certified employees of a local board of education that shall be granted a leave of absence for military purposes. Requires, upon the employee's return to work, the Commonwealth rather than the local district, pay the member contributions and any accrued interest that is required to be paid in order for the member to receive retirement credit. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/06RS/HB79/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 79
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet, www.lrc.ky.gov |
Special Education |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Clarifies provisions relating to awarding of high school diplomas to students with disabilities. States that if the severity of an exceptional student's disability precludes the student from completing the standard high school graduation requirements, the student must be offered an alternative course of study based upon student needs and the provisions specified in 704 KAR 3:303, Program of studies. Mandates that a student who completes an alternative course of study must receive a certificate of work readiness and employability, consistent with the graduation practices for all students.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/704/003/305reg.htm
Title: 704 KAR 3:305 (section 7)
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/ |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Section 2: Effective with the Class of 2012: Requires 3rd unit of math to be completed in Algebra II and bars student from receiving math credit for prealgebra course (prealgebra may be applied toward elective credit). Requires 3 units of science to be lab-based. Replaces reference to life science mandate with reference to biological science mandate and includes unifying concepts as component of mandated high school science curriculum. Specifies content to be included in health, physical education, and history and appreciaton of visual and performing arts credits for high school graduation. Replaces reference to 7 units electives with reference to 7 units "academic and career interest standards based learning experiences." Requires 4 of these 7 units to include standards-based learning experiences in an academic or career interest based on the student's Individual Learning Plan. Requires students to demonstrate competency in technology to be eligible for high school graduation.
Section 4: Allows local boards to award credit for high school graduation based on satisfactory demonstration of proficiency. Allows students in grades 5-8 to receive high school credit provided the content is high school-level and the district has criteria in place to determine that the middle grades student is capable of success in the high school course. Requires local boards to establish policies for awarding performance-based credit that meet specified criteria, including the extent to which state assessments will be used in the local performance-based credit system.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/704/003/305reg.htm
Title: 704 KAR 3:305 (section 2 and 4)
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov/kar |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Adopted 02/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires districts to implement an advising and guidance process throughout the middle and high schools to provide support for the development and implementation of each student's Individual Learning Plan.
Requires districts to evaluate the effectiveness and results of the Individual Learning Plan process and for the evaluation process to include input from students, parents and school staff. Requires part of the evaluation criteria to include indicators related to student status 12 months after the date of high school graduation.
Requires feeder middle schools and high schools to work together to ensure that every student and parent receives information and advising on the relationship between education and career opportunities. Requires advising and guidance to include information about financial planning for postsecondary education.
Requires schools to maintain every student's Individual Learning Plan, which must be readily available to the student and parent and reviewed/approved by the student, parents and school officials at least annually.
Mandates that, beginning when a student is in grade 8, the Individual Learning Plan establish learning goals for the student based on academic and career interests and identify required academic courses, electives and extracurricular opportunities aligned to the student's postsecondary goals. Requires the school to use information about student needs for academic and elective courses from students' Individual Learning Plans to plan academic and elective offerings.
Effective with the Class of 2013 (6th graders in 2006-2007 school year), requires development of each student's Individual Learning Plan to begin by the end of student's 6th grade year, and to be focused on career exploration and related postsecondary education and training needs.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/704/003/305reg.htm
Title: 704 KAR 3:305 (section 3)
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov |
Accountability--Rewards |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes a local school district accountability program. Establishes eligibility for district rewards, and procedures for determining assistance and other consequences for local school districts. AGENCY CONTACT: Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, Bureau of Operations and Support Services, Department of Education, 500 Mero St, 1 st, Capitol Plaza Tower, Frankfort, KY 40601, 502-564-4474, fax 502-564-9321
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/703/005/130.htm
Title: 703 KAR 5:130
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us, Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Adopted 11/2005 |
P-12 |
Amends rules which establish a system for identifying and rewarding successful schools and appropriate consequences for schools failing to meet or exceed their assistance line.
AGENCY CONTACT: Kevin Noland, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, Bureau of Operations and Support Services, Department of Education, 500 Mero St, 1st, Capitol Plaza Tower, Frankfort, KY 40601, 502-564-4474, fax 502-564-9321
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/703/005/020.htm
Title: 703 KAR 5:020
Source: Lexis-Nexis, www.lrc.ky.gov |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires colleges and universities to:
(a) Utilize institution-wide resources to work with elementary and secondary educators and other entities to align curriculum content to ensure that students who achieve proficiency on standards established at the prekindergarten through secondary levels will require no remediation to successfully enter a postsecondary education program;
(b) Provide quality undergraduate teacher preparation programs to ensure that those preparing to teach reading or mathematics at all grade levels have the necessary content knowledge, assessment and diagnostic skills, and teaching methodologies;
(c) Deliver appropriate continuing education for teachers in reading and mathematics through institutes, graduate level courses, and other professional development activities that support a statewide agenda for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics;
(d) Conduct or assist with research on best practices in assessment, intervention strategies, teaching methodologies, costs and effectiveness of instructional models, and other factors as appropriate to reading and mathematics;
(e) Provide staff to consult and provide technical assistance to teachers, staff, and administrators at elementary, middle, and secondary school sites;
(f) Assume active roles in the statewide initiatives referenced in Sections 2 and 5 of this Act; and
(g) Develop written procedures for measuring the effectiveness of activities outlined in paragraphs (a) to (e) of this subsection.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 7)
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Mandates that the Kentucky Department of Education provide assistance to schools and teachers, including publicizing professional development opportunities, methods of measuring effective professional development, the availability of high quality instructional materials, and developmentally appropriate screening and diagnostic assessments of student competency in mathematics and reading. Also requires the department to provide access to samples of units of study, annotated student work, diagnostic instruments, and research findings, and give guidance on parental engagement.
Also requires that the department conduct an annual review of the state grant programs it manages and make recommendations, when needed, to the Interim Joint Committee on Education for changes to statutory requirements that are necessary to gain a greater return on investment.
Requires the department to provide administrative support and oversight to programs to train classroom coaches and mentors to help teachers with reading and mathematics instruction. Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 4)
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader," "mathematics mentor," and "numeracy." Establishes the Committee for Mathematics Achievement to develop a multi-faceted strategic plan to improve student achievement in mathematics at all levels of schooling, prekindergarten through postsecondary and adult. Specifies that at a minimum, the plan must address:
(a) Challenging curriculum that is aligned prekindergarten through postsecondary, including consensus among high school teachers and postsecondary education faculty about expectations, curriculum, and assessment;
(b) Attitudes and beliefs of teachers about mathematics;
(c) Teachers' knowledge of mathematics;
(d) Diagnostic assessment, intervention services, and instructional strategies;
(e) Shortages of teachers of mathematics, including incentives to attract strong candidates to mathematics teaching;
(f) Statewide institutes that prepare cadres of mathematics leaders in local school districts, which may include highly skilled retired mathematics teachers, to serve as coaches and mentors in districts and schools;
(g) Cohesive continuing education options for experienced mathematics classroom teachers;
(h) Closing the student achievement gap among various student subpopulations;
(i) Curriculum expectations and assessments of students among the various school levels, prekindergarten, primary, elementary, middle, and high school;
(j) Content standards for adult education centers providing mathematics curricula;
(k) Introductory postsecondary education mathematics courses that are appropriate to the wide array of academic programs and majors;
(l) Research to analyze further the issues of transition from high school or GED programs to postsecondary education mathematics; and
(m) The early mathematics testing program under KRS 158.803.
Other factors may be included in the strategic plan as deemed appropriate by the committee to improve mathematics achievement of Kentucky students.
Requires the committee to (a) Design a statewide professional development program that includes summer mathematics institutes at colleges and universities, follow-up, and school-based support services, beginning no later than June 1, 2006, to prepare teams of teachers as coaches and mentors of mathematics at all school levels to improve student achievement. Specifies areas the design must address. (b) Require schools and districts approved to have participants in the mathematics leader institutes to provide specified assurances to support institute participants and students who need modified instructional and intervention services in math.
Establishes committee membership, terms, chairmanship, attachmetn to Kentucky Department of Education, and responsibilities. Specifies that the committee must:
(a) Present a draft strategic plan addressing the requirements in subsection (1) of this section and other issues that arose during the work of the committee to the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee no later than August 2005;
(b) Present the strategic plan for improving mathematics achievement to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 15, 2006, which shall include any recommendations that require legislative action; and
(c) Provide a final written report of committee activities to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2006.
Also specifies that the committee will have ongoing responsibility for providing advice and guidance to policymakers in the development of statewide policies and in the identification and allocation of resources to improve mathematics achievement. In carrying out this responsibility, the committee must periodically review the strategic plan and make modifications as deemed appropriate and report those to the Interim Joint Committee on Education.
Mandates that the committee collaborate with the Center for Mathematics to ensure that there is ongoing identification of research-based intervention programs for K-12 students who have fallen behind in mathematics, rigorous mathematics curricula that prepare students for the next level of schooling, research-based professional development models that prepare teachers in mathematics and pedagogy, and strategies for closing the gap between high school or GED and postsecondary mathematics preparation.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 2)
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Sets forth legislative intent related to early diagnosis of and intervention for elementary students struggling in reading and mathematics, state student achievement goals, provision and quality of diagnostic and intervention services to students below proficient on state math and reading assessments, and collaboration among state and local stakeholders to achieve state goals. Establishes the respective roles of the general assembly, state board of education, department of education, council on postsecondary education, education professional standards board, colleges and universities, school councils, and local boards and superintendents in achieving the state's student achievement goals. Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB301.htm
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 1, multiple provisions)
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Creates the mathematics achievement fund to provide developmentally appropriate diagnostic assessment and intervention services to students, primary through grade 12, to help them reach proficiency in mathematics on the state assessments and in compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Specifies activities for which fund monies may be used. Specifies that the fund is to provide funding for the Center for Mathematics created in this bill, provide renewable, two-year local grants to school districts for specified purposes, and provide operational funding for the Mathematics Achievement Committee created in Section 2 of this bill. Specifies that if matching funds are required, the school council or, if none exists, the principal or the superintendent of schools, must allocate matching funds. Allows funding for professional development allocated to the school council under KRS 160.345 and for continuing education under KRS 158.070 to be used to provide a portion or all of a school's required match. Specifies responsibilities of the department of education relative to the fund program, including technical assistance to potential applicants and grant recipients.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 3)
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the teachers' professional growth fund is to provide teachers with high quality professional development in content knowledge in reading and classroom-based screening, diagnostic, assessment and intervention strategies. States that the fund may be used to provide grants to local school districts to support staff participation in specific, statewide initiatives for the professional development of teachers and administrators in specific content areas as established by the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education as established in this bill; to provide grants to colleges and universities to plan and develop statewide professional development institutes and other professional development services; and to provide grants to local school districts, to colleges and universities, or other entities to assist the Kentucky Department of Education in evaluating costs and the effectiveness of activities and initiatives established under the teachers' professional growth fund.
Requires that professional development programs for which teachers may receive support from the fund provide training in the use of research-based and developmentally appropriate classroom-based screening, diagnostic, assessment, and intervention strategies.
Requires that, beginning June 1, 2006, through the 2009-2010 school year, priority for the use of funds from the teachers' professional growth fund be to train and support teams of teachers from all school levels to be trained as reading coaches and mentors or as mathematics coaches and mentors in statewide institutes referenced in Sections 1 and 2 of this bill, and for selected teachers to be highly trained in providing diagnostic assessment and intervention services for students in the primary program struggling with mathematics.
Requires the design of the statewide mathematics institutes to train mathematics coaches and mentors to be developed by the Committee for Mathematics Achievement. Requires the design of the professional development program to provide highly trained mathematics intervention teachers in the primary program to be developed by the Center for Mathematics in collaboration with public and private institutions of postsecondary education.
Requires that the development of the statewide program to train reading coaches and mentors be coordinated by the Kentucky Department of Education with recommendations from the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development and the reading steering committee established in KRS 158.794. Mandates that the design of the program reflect a consensus of the agencies involved in the development of the program. Requires the training program for reading coaches and mentors to complement other statewide reading initiatives, funded with state and federal funds, and that the program give priority to teachers in grades 4-12. Requires that the program be implemented no later than June 1, 2006.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Sections 5 and 6)
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Creates the Center for Mathematics to make available professional development for teachers in reliable, research-based diagnostic assessment and intervention strategies, coaching and mentoring models, and other programs in mathematics. Specifies the duties of the center. Requires the Council on Postsecondary Education to select a location for the center no later than January 1, 2006.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 4)
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Assessment--Formative/Interim |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
This act is to be cited as the "Read to Achieve Act of 2005." Relates to reading; makes an appropriation therefor; describes the general assembly's findings and intent regarding reading. Defines "comprehensive reading program," "reading diagnostic assessment," and "reading intervention program." Eliminates the Early Reading Incentive Fund and the Early Reading Incentive Grant Steering Committee; establishes the Reading Diagnostic and Intervention Fund and the Reading Diagnostic and Intervention Grant Steering Committee to provide renewable, two-year grants to help teachers and library media specialists improve the reading skills of struggling readers in the primary program. Requires the state board to:
1. Identify eligible grant applicants, taking into consideration how the grant program described in this section will relate to other grant programs;
2. Specify the criteria for acceptable diagnostic assessments and intervention programs;
3. Specify the criteria for acceptable ongoing assessment of each child to determine his or her reading progress;
4. Establish the minimum evaluation process for an annual review of each grant recipient's program and progress;
5. Identify the annual data that must be provided from grant recipients;
6. Define the application review and approval process;
7. Establish matching requirements deemed necessary;
8. Define the professional development and continuing education requirements for teachers, library media specialists, administrators, and staff of grant recipients;
9. Establish the conditions for renewal of a two-year grant; and
10. Specify other conditions necessary to implement the program.
Sets forth principles that program grant applicants must meet for the applicant's request for funding to be approved.
Requires the department's annual report on the use of grant funds to include comparisons of the overall costs and effectiveness of intervention programs, and every other year to include an estimate of the cost to expand the reading diagnostic and intervention grant program.
Modifies the membership and expands upon the powers of the Reading Diagnostic and Intervention Grant Steering Committee.
Requires the Collaborative Center for Literacy Development: Early Childhood through Adulthood to undertake specified advisory and research duties. Requires the center's research agenda to consider the impact of various reading and intervention programs:
1. In eliminating academic achievement gaps among students with differing characteristics, including subpopulations of students with disabilities, students with low socioeconomic status, students from racial minority groups, students with limited English proficiency, and students of different gender;
2. In schools with differing characteristics, such as urban versus rural schools, poverty versus nonpoverty schools, schools with strong library media center programs versus schools with weak library media center programs and schools in different geographic regions of the state;
3. In terms of their costs and effectiveness; and
4. In maintaining positive student progress over a sustained period of time.
Requires the Early Childhood Development Authority to provide that primary students, regardless of age, who are having difficulty with reading may be referred and receive a second vision examination as described in KRS 156.160 at no cost to the parent.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB19.htm
Title: S.B. 19
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Relates to nonresident student contracts; allows two local school districts to enter into a nonresident student contract for more than one year. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB197.htm
Title: H.B. 197
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Attendance |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes that any student enrolled in a public school who is over 18 but not 21 years of age and who has been absent from school without valid excuse for three or more days, or tardy without valid excuse on three or more days, is a truant. Reduces from three to two the number of times a student must be reported truant during a one-year period to be identified as a habitual truant. Deletes provision allowing student who is absent for less than half a school day to be regarded as tardy.
Provides that any of the following who intentionally fails to comply with the attendance requirements set forth in KRS 159.150 must be fined $100 for the first offense and $250 for each subsequent offense:
(a) A student enrolled in a public school who is at least 18 but not yet 21 years old, for whom a guardian has not been appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, whether or not that student is identified as an exceptional child;
or youth under KRS 157.200(1)(a) to (m);
(b) A parent, guardian, or custodian of a student enrolled in a public school who has not reached his or her 18th birthday; or
(c) A guardian appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction of a student who is enrolled in a public school, has been identified as an exceptional child or youth under KRS 157.200(1)(a) to (m), and is at least 18 but not yet 21 years old.
Requires any person described in paragraph (a), (b), or (c) above to be informed by district staff that a public school student who has not reached his or her twenty-first birthday is subject to truancy laws.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB72.htm
Title: H.B. 72
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Permits a school district superintendent to require a national criminal history background check for a certificated job applicant who has resided in Kentucky twelve months or less; requires any national history background check results to be sent to the hiring superintendent. Requires an applicant for any district position to divulge all states in which he or she has lived and the dates of residency, and to provide photo identification.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB88.htm
Title: H.B. 88
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2006-2007 school year, requires each school to limit access to no more than one day each week to retail fast foods in the cafeteria, whether sold by contract, commercial vendor, or otherwise.
Requires every district to appoint a food service director who is responsible for the management and oversight of the food service program in the district; allows two or more contiguous districts to form a "school food service area," in which a school food service director must be jointly selected by the participating superintendents to oversee the school food service area. Each school food service director must be certified as a "school food service and nutrition specialist" or certified by a Level 2 certificate issued by the American School Food Service Association within three years after this bill goes into effect. Requires school cafeteria managers to annually receive at least two hours of continuing education in applied nutrition and healthy meal planning and preparation.
Defines "competitive food," "school day" and school-day-approved beverage." Defines "school-day-approved beverage" as water, 100% fruit juice, lowfat milk, and any beverage that contains no more than 10 grams of sugar per serving. Requires the state board to specify the minimum nutritional standards for all foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs in vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales. Requires minimum nutritional standards to be based on the most recent edition of the United States Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Requires the state board rule to address serving size, sugar, and fat content of the foods and beverages. Permits school districts to impose more stringent standards than the state board standards. Requires all schools to follow the state board minimum standards unless the school has obtained a waiver from the state board. Requires any waiver approved by the state board to be reviewed on an annual basis.
Bars schools from selling competitive foods or beverages from the time of the arrival of the first student at the school building until 30 minutes after the last lunch period. Allows only school-day-approved beverages to be sold in elementary schools during the school day in vending machines, school stores, canteens, or fundraisers that sell beverages by students, teachers, or groups on school grounds.
Establishes fines and other sanctions for any public school that violates the school food nutrition requirements in section 4 of this bill.
Requires each school food service director to annually assess school nutrition in the district and issue a written report to parents, the local school board, and school-based decision making councils. The report must include:
(a) An evaluation of compliance with the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs;
(b) An evaluation of the availability of contracted fast foods or foods sold through commercial vendors;
(c) A review of access to foods and beverages sold outside the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch programs, including vending machines, school stores, canteens, and a la carte cafeteria sales;
(d) A list of foods and beverages that are available to students, including the nutritional value of those foods and beverages; and
(e) Recommendations for improving the school nutrition environment.
Requires the state board to develop an assessment tool that each school district may use to evaluate its physical activity environment. Requires the evaluation to be completed annually and released to the public at the same time as the school food service director's annual nutrition report. Requires every local board to discuss the findings of the nutrition report and physical activity report, seek public comments during a public meeting of the board, and annually hold an advertised public forum to present a plan to improve school nutrition and physical activities in the school district.
Requires each school council of an elementary school to develop and implement a wellness policy that includes moderate to vigorous physical activity each day and encourages healthy choices among students. The policy may permit physical activity to be considered part of the instructional day, up to 30 minutes per day, or 150 minutes per week. Each school council must adopt an assessment tool or utilize an existing assessment program to annually determine each child's level of physical activity. Requires the department to make available a list of available resources to carry out the provisions of this subsection, and to report annually to the Legislative Research Commission on how the schools are providing physical activity under these requirements, and on the types of physical activity being provided. The policy developed by the school council must comply with provisions required by federal law, state law, or local board policy.
Bill summary, history and text: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB172/FN.doc
Title: S.B. 172
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Curriculum--Mathematics |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Specifies that, for the state to achieve its student achievement goals, the Council on Postsecondary Education, in cooperation with the Education Professional Standards Board, must exercise its duties and functions under KRS 164.020 to ensure that teacher education programs are fulfilling the needs of Kentucky for highly skilled teachers. Requires the council to coordinate the federal and state grant programs it administers with other statewide initiatives relating to improving student achievement in reading and mathematics to avoid duplication of effort and to make efficient use of resources. Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 5)
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Creates a legislative task force to examine the effect of school calendars on Kentucky's tourism industry and the potential effect that changes in school calendars may have on Kentucky's educational system. Establishes task force membership. Requires the task force to report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission no later than December 15, 2005.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HC55.htm
Title: H.C.R. 55
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the professional development, training and resources needed in each school to help each child achieve reading and literacy proficiency by 2014. Requires the department of education to submit its findings and recommendations to the Interim Joint Committee on Education no later than November 1, 2005.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SJ92.htm
Title: S.J.R. 92
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Provision of budget bill. Directs the Office of Education Accountability to conduct an inventory and assessment of indicators that may be used to analyze financial, academic, and demographic data in order to evaluate school performance. The inventory and assessment are to be under the direction of the Eduation Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee. With approval of the Subcommittee and the Legislative Research Commission, funds may be used to contract for special expertise in the area of financial or performance reviews.
Title: H.B. 267
Source: Kentucky 2005 legislative summary |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires every public and private and parochial school to have on duty during the entire school day at least one school employee who has met the requirements of a school health professional under KRS 156.502 to administer glucagon subcutaneously to a diabetic student and diazepam rectal gel in a prefilled unit-dose delivery system to a student who has a seizure disorder. Prior to administering glucagon or diazepam rectal gel to a student, a school must obtain written authorization from the student's parent/guardian, to be renewed annually, and be provided with the prescribed medication in its unopened, sealed package with the label affixed by the dispensing pharmacy intact.
The school district or the governing body of each private and parochial school or school district must inform the parent or guardian of the student that the school and its employees and agents will not incur any liability as a result of any injury sustained by the student from any reaction to any medication to treat a hypoglycemic episode or a seizure or its administration, unless the injury is the result of negligence or misconduct on behalf of the school or its employees. The parent or guardian must sign a written release form.
Requires the school nurse or school administrator to check the expiration date monthly for each emergency glucagon kit or diazepam rectal gel prefilled unit-dose delivery system in the possession of the school. At least one month prior to the expiration date of each medication, the school nurse or school administrator must inform the parent or guardian of the expiration date.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB88.htm
Title: H.B. 88 § 2
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Requires a local board of education to award an authentic high school diploma to an honorably discharged veteran who did not complete high school prior to being inducted into the United States Armed Forces during World War II or the Korean conflict. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB60.htm
Title: H.B. 60
Source: StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Relates to Vietnam veterans; requires a local board of education to award a high school diploma to an honorably discharged veteran who was enrolled in, but did not complete, high school prior to being inducted into the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB230.htm
Title: H.B. 230
Source: StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Effective July 2006, requires an instructional leader to complete an intensive annual training program of a minimum of 21 hours a year and approved by the state board of education. Mandates that state board include a provision to allow an instructional leader to annually receive three participant hours credit for duties performed as part of a beginning teacher committee. Requires a maximum of six participant hours credit be awarded annually for serving on multiple beginning teacher committees. Requires every district superintendent to report annually the name of any instructional leader who fails to comply with the training requirement and to place the instructional leader on probation for one year. If the required training for the prior year and the current year is not completed during the probationary period, the department of education must forward the information to the Education Professional Standards Board which will revoke the instructional leader's certificate
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB301.htm
Title: H.B. 301
Source: StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
(8) School councils at all school levels are encouraged to identify and allocate resources to qualified teachers to become coaches or mentors in mathematics or coaches or mentors in reading with a focus on improving student achievement in their respective schools.
(9) Local school boards and superintendents shall provide local resources, whenever possible, to supplement or match state and federal resources to support teachers, school administrators, and school councils in helping students achieve proficiency in reading and mathematics.
(10) Local school superintendents shall provide leadership and resources to the principals of all schools to facilitate curriculum alignment, communications, and technical support among schools to ensure that students are academically prepared to move to the next level of schooling.
Declares an emergency.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB93/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraphs 8-10)
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Allows a one-year certificate to be granted an individual bearing all other qualifications except the assessments and selected as an assistant principal in a district where the superintendent certifies to the Education Professional Standards Board that there is a limited number of applicants to meet the requirements. Exempts a person employed in Kentucky as a principal or assistant principal who was certified in another state and practiced in that state for two or more years from taking the state principal certification assessment.
Bars a student from participating in the teacher internship program until the student has successfully completed the assessments required by the education professional standards board.
Allows a candidate for alternative certification to serve his or her internship in a nonpublic school.
Provides that a teacher who is fully certified in Kentucky and who is seeking an additional certification is not required to repeat the Kentucky teacher internship program.
Extends for one year (to June 30, 2007) the pilot teacher internship program for beginning teachers established under KRS 161.1222.
Full text of enacted bill: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB183/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 183
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Educational Excellence Scholarship Program; moves the administrative responsibility of the Education Excellence Scholarship Program from the Council on Postsecondary Education to the Higher Education Assistance Authority; changes reporting requirements for grades of students, loan defaults and overpayments of grants or loans.
http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB460.htm
Title: H.B. 460
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. |
Amends provisions of the Commonwealth Postsecondary Education Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB184.htm
Title: H.B. 184
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. |
Increases the bonding authority of the Higher Education Student Loan Corporation from one billion, 950 million to five billion dollars. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB161.htm
Title: H.B. 161
Source: |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Requires the attorney general to distribute Open Meetings and Open Records Act information to local government officials, superintendents of public school districts, and presidents of public universities. Requires superintendents and presidents of public universities to distribute this information to every elected school board and school council member and to every board of regents or governing board member of their university, respectively. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB77.htm
Title: H.B. 77
Source: |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky; permits one of the ten members of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees representative of the learned professions to reside outside of Kentucky. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB124.htm
Title: S.B. 124
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Clarifies definition of "Kentucky Community and Technical College System" to mean the system composed of public community and technical colleges, including those postsecondary institutions operated by the Cabinet for Workforce Development and those community colleges in the University of Kentucky Community College System on May 30, 1997. Deletes provision requiring the University of Kentucky to provide comprehensive community college programs at the Lexington Community College; transfers governance and management responsibilities for the Lexington Community College to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. Requires headquarters of the administration of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to be maintained in Woodford County.
Requires A community college or extension of a community college shall be maintained in Fayette County.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/05rs/HB239/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 239
Source: StateNet, www.lrc.ky.gov |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Includes the day of primary elections as a day in which schools are closed. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB7.htm
Title: S.B. 7
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Directs the Office of Education Accountability to conduct a review of the SFCC's ability to provide local school districts with necessary debt service assistance to maintain a facility program that will be conducive to a positive learning environment.
Title: H.B. 267 (Facility Component)
Source: Kentucky 2005 Legislative Summary |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Establishes a new school bus endorsement for commercial driver's licenses; sets forth qualifications; exempts current license holders with satisfactory driving records from taking the school bus endorsement skills test until October 1, 2005. http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/HB133.htm
Title: H.B. 133
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Relates to toll roads; makes school district vehicles being operated in an official capacity eligible for a nonpaying toll-road identification card. Bill summary, history and text: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB115.htm
Fiscal note: http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB115/FN.doc
Title: S.B. 115
Source: StateNet |
Special Populations--Gifted and Talented |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Authorizes Governor's Scholars Program, Inc. to manage and operate the Governor's Scholars Program and hire, fire, and manage personnel, including the executive director. Transfers the Governor's Scholars Program from the Education Cabinet to the Governor's Office for administrative purposes; establishes procedures for appointing members of program board. Clarifies that the enrichment program for academically gifted students is "to enhance the next generation of civic and economic leaders and create models of educational excellence." http://lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/05RS/SB134.htm
Title: S.B. 134
Source: lrc.ky.gov |
Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 03/2005 |
P-12 |
Creates the Kentucky data research initiative, a partnership between elementary and secondary schools and postsecondary education research institutions to maximize research capabilities through computer resources. Purposes are to expand the availability of computing resources not available at the research institutions at a relatively low cost, to do education outreach to students and teachers in Kentucky's K-12 system, to expand the research.
Title: H.B. 267 (Data Research Initiative Provision)
Source: Kentucky 2005 Legislative Summary |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Sets forth the provisions of Primary Service coordination as it relates to First Steps, KY's Early Intervention Program. http://www.chs.ky.gov/publichealth/firststeps%202004/PandP%20Manual/911kar2_140E_070104.pdf(SN)
Title: 911 KAR 2:140
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes the provisions of assessment and the Individualized Family Service Plans used in First Steps, KY's Early Intervention Program. http://www.chs.ky.gov/publichealth/firststeps%202004/PandP%20Manual/911kar2_130E_070104.pdf
Title: 911 KAR 2:130
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Sets forth the provisions of personnel qualifications as they relate to First Steps, KY's Early Intervention Program. http://www.chs.ky.gov/publichealth/firststeps%202004/PandP%20Manual/911kar2_150E_070104.pdf(SN)
Title: 911 KAR 2:150
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Sets forth the point of entry provisions pertaining to First Steps, KY's Early Intervention Program. http://www.chs.ky.gov/publichealth/firststeps%202004/PandP%20Manual/911kar2_110E_070104.pdf
Title: 911 KAR 2:110
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 06/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes the evaluation and eligibility requirements for First Steps, KY's Early Intervention Program. http://www.chs.ky.gov/publichealth/firststeps%202004/PandP%20Manual/911kar2_120E_070104.pdf
Title: 911 KAR 2:120
Source: StateNet |
Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends KRS 158.6455 to require that a student be enrolled in a specific school for at least 100 days prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period being counted in the school's accountability index. A student's test scores must be counted in the accountability index of the school in which the student was previously enrolled if the student was enrolled in that school for at least 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period. A student's test scores must be counted in the accountability index of the district if the student is enrolled in the district at least 100 days of the school year prior to the beginning of the statewide testing period. Requires that a student who is not enrolled for 100 days be counted in the state accountability index. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB176/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 176
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Direct the Office of Education Accountability to conduct a study of the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System and to provide Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee a draft of the report by September 15, 2004. The study must include but not be limited to an examination of:
(1) The appropriateness of the CATS components used to measure achievement levels of the core content for all Kentucky students;
(2) The validity and adequacy of CATS results as indicators of individual student achievement and to give parents the information they need to know about the individual progress of their children;
(3) The alignment of CATS with the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act;
(4) The validity of the writing portfolio as an assessment component within the CATS system and appropriateness of the writing portfolio to be included in the school accountability index;
(5) The value of the CATS assessment in enhancing instructional practices and curriculum on a day to day basis;
(6) The effects of the CATS assessment on teachers, staff, and administrators; and
(7) The actual costs for the CATS system on a per pupil basis.
Section 3. The Kentucky Department of Education must provide the data, information, and any staff analysis requested by the Office of Education Accountability to facilitate completion of the study. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ156.htm
Title: S.J.R. 156
Source: StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends KRS 158.145 to require that all students who drop out of school be counted in the annual state dropout index. Amends KRS 158.6455 to specify that a student must be included in a school's annual average dropout rate if the student was enrolled in the school for at least 30 days during the school year prior to the day he or she was recorded as dropping out. Requires that a student not be counted in the school's annual average dropout rate if the student is enrolled and making satisfactory progress in a General Educational Development (GED) diploma program or if the student has dropped out of school and is awarded a GED diploma by a certain date.
Specifies that no state or federal adult education and literacy funds may be used to pay for a high school student enrolled in a GED program.
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB178/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 178
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires a school principal to give a student an excused absence of up to ten days to pursue an educational enhancement opportunity of significant educational value, and provides for an appeal of a negative decision to the local board of education. Specifies that an "educational enhancement opportunity" may include an educational foreign exchange program or an intensive instructional, experiential, or performance program in English, math, science, social studies, foreign language or the arts, including programs not sponsored by the district, but may not include nonacademic extracurricular activities. A student's grades may not be adversely affected for lack of class attendance or participation. Provides for an appeal process to the district superintendent, and subsequent appeal process to local board, if an excused absence request is denied by a building principal. Bars a student from receiving an excused absence during state or district assessments, unless the principal determines that extenuating circumstances render an excused absence appropriate. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB80/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 80
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides that an exemption from compulsory attendance student may be granted to 1) a child certified by specified professionals to have a chronic physical condition that prevents or renders inadvisable attendance at school, and which is unlikely to improve substantially within a year, or 2) a student with a disability may be granted if the student's individual education plan specifies that his or her placement in home or hospital is the least restrictive environment. In the case of a child whose licensed physician, advanced registered nurse practitioner, psychologist, psychiatrist, chiropractor or public health officer certifies that the child's chronic physical condition is unlikely to significantly improve within three years, the child's admissions and release committee must annually evaluate the child's condition and documentation to determine whether updated evidence is required. Updated evidence must be presented upon committee need or at least every three years. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB10/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 10
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Urges the establishment of a committee to evaluate existing school civic literacy programs, determine a strategy for enhancing long-term civic engagement and literacy, and recommend a plan for improving civic engagement and literacy before the 2005 regular session of the general assembly. Requires the committee, if established, to include a diverse range of student, teacher and administrator representatives from K-16 education, media, civic organizations and elected officials, and to report its findings and recommendations to the office of the secretary of state by December 1, 2004. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ80/bill.doc
Title: S.J.R. 80
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Designates Millersburg Military Institute as the official Kentucky military school. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ83/bill.doc
Title: S.J.R. 83
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends KRS 160.615 to require payments and returns to be submitted to the Revenue Cabinet rather than the school districts.
Creates new sections of KRS 160.613 to 160.617 to provide for the administration of the tax by the Revenue Cabinet and provides for the distribution of the tax revenues to the school districts imposing the tax.
Creates a new section of KRS 160.613 to 160.617 to require school districts to report school district boundaries to the Revenue Cabinet and to each entity providing utility services within the school district
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/04RS/HB163.htm
Title: H.B. 163
Source: StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Amend KRS 67.750 to revise the definitions of "employee," "gross receipts," and "internal revenue code"; define "sales revenue" and add school districts and other special taxing districts to the definition of "tax district"; amend KRS 67.753, 67.755, 67.760, 67.770, 67.778, 67.780, and 67.788 to make technical changes; amend KRS 67.790 to add penalties for violating unauthorized inspection provisions or divulging confidential taxpayer information.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/RECORD/04RS/HB458.htm
Title: H.B. 458
Source: StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides that unless a number of candidates equal to or greater than the number of positions to be filled file petitions for nomination for an independent board of education opening, the chief state school officer shall fill the term of office for all openings that have no candidate filings by appointing a member to the local board who meets the residency and qualification requirements. Allows the local board to nominate candidates and for individuals to nominate himself or another for consideration. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB398/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 398
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Leadership |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Updates language relating to a superintendent's certificate and the role of the Education Professional Standards Board; clarifies timelines, deletes obsolete statements; provides gender neutral language to provisions governing school district superintendents. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB152/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 152
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires a scholastic audit team, when auditing a school that for two successive accountability cycles has failed to meet its goal, to include actions to improve the functioning of the school council and make recommendations concerning the council in the improvement plan; requires the audit team to recommend to the commissioner of education if the authority of the school council should be transferred. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB111/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 111
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Allows a tuition waiver to any student under the age of 23 who is a dependent of a veteran and is enrolled in a state-supported university, junior college, or vocational school; allows a tuition waiver to any student under the age of 23 who is a dependent of a disabled veteran and is enrolled in a state- supported university, junior college, or vocational school.
Title: H.B. 460
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Undocumented Immigrants |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Amend KRS 164.020 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education in defining in-state residency to include a student who met the residency requirements at the beginning of his or her last year in high school.
Title: S.B. 200
Source: StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires school districts that missed school days due to emergencies, including weather-related emergencies, to consider certified and classified personnel to have met the 185-day minimum contract with the district, for purposes of service credit for retirement, when specified criteria are met. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB28/bill.doc and http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB28/AA.doc
Title: S.B. 28
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Amend KRS 189.394, regarding fines for speeding, to double fines for speeding in a school zone where the speed limit has been lowered and flashing lights have been installed and are flashing pursuant to KRS 189.336. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB85/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 85
Source: StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Eliminates the requirement that the principal of a public school be notified when a child is found guilty of an offense that classifies the child as a youthful offender (maintains existing notification requirement for private school principals). Adds that local superintendent be notified when child enrolled in district is identified as youthful offender or violent offender; requires the local superintendent to notify the child's principal of such identification. Requires local superintendent to be identified within 24 hours when a petition is filed against a child enrolled in district or an enrolled child has been found guilty of an offense that would be a felony or misdemeanor if committed by an adult. Specifies that if the petition is dismissed, all school or district records of the incident or notification must be destroyed, and may not be included in the child's school records. Adds that a child's counselor must be notified by the school principal when the child has been found guilty of offenses identifying him or her as youthful offender, violent offender or an offense that would be a felony or misdemeanor if committed by an adult. Principal of student found guilty or expelled for such an offense must provide, prior to student's admission to any school, a sworn statement that the child has been found guilty of such an offense within 5 working days of student's request for enrollment in new school.
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB52.htm
Title: S.B. 52
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires local school boards to award a minimum ten days sick leave during the school year to all full time employees; includes full time employees in other sick leave provisions that previously pertained only to teachers; amends definition of "immediate family" to include the immediate family members of all school employees. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB309/bill.doc
Fiscal impact: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB309/FN.doc
Title: H.B. 309
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Amends KRS 156.153 to require that school bus standards and specifications be set by the Kentucky Department of Education rather than by the Kentucky Board of Education; deletes obsolete language; amends KRS 189.540 to conform. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB124/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 124
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Requires that a request for an administrative hearing alleging a violation of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued. This three-year limit does not apply if the eligible parent or student was prevented from requesting the hearing due to (a) failure of the district to provide prior written or procedural safeguards; (b) false representations that the district was attempting to resolve the problem forming the basis of the complaint; or (c) the district's withholding of information relevant to the hearing issues from the parent. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SB115/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 115
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Specifies that there are persons who should be recruited to teach in Kentucky's public schools because they have academic majors, strong verbal skills as demonstrated on a verbal ability test, and deep knowledge of content, which characteristics are identified by empirical research as important attributes of quality teachers. Clarifies minimum grade point average and degree prerequisites for work experience-option candidates for the alternative teaching certificate. Adds that work experience-option candidate must possess academic major or passing score on the academic content assessment designated by the education professional standards board. Specifies that alternatively-certified "adjunct instructor" (in such areas as art, music, foreign language, drama, science and other speciality areas) cannot be designated "highly qualified" under the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.
Establishes two new options for alternative certification. 1): The "university alternative program" allows a university to offer an alternative program that enrolls students in a postbaccalaureate teacher preparation program concurrently with employment as a teacher in a local district. Specifies the parameters of this certification.
2): The certification of a person in a field other than education to teach at the elementary, middle or high school level, which option must not be limited to teaching in shortage areas. Specifies the parameters of this certification.
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB152/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 152
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to identify benefits for certified staff called to active duty, permit a board of education to provide the employer's contribution for health insurance as long as the certified employee or spouse provides the difference in cost for a family plan; permit military service to count toward continuing service contracts; provide that a certified staff person shall receive credit on the single salary schedule for time spent. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB551/bill.doc
Actuarial impact: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/HB551/AA.doc
Title: H.B. 551
Source: StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires all public high schools to observe Veterans Day as established in this section. Requires a class period on Veterans Day or on one of the five school days before Veterans Day to be devoted to observance of Veterans Day; observance requires students to attend a Veterans Day program approved by the principal and which is comprised of a teacher and a veteran speaking on the meaning of Veterans Day. Encourages public high schools to contact the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs and veterans' service organizations, including but not limited to the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, for advice on developing their Veterans Day program. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB303/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 303
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum |
Adopted 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the criteria a school shall meet in order to designate a course an advanced placement course, including content and program standards concerning student admission criteria, data collection, and reporting. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/704/003/510.htm
Title: 704 KAR 3:510
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the department to create a program to promote the integration of the arts and foreign languages into the elementary school program. Schools are to submit applications, with the department granting funds to at least one school per region, giving preference to schools that do not already have a comprehensive arts and foreign language program. Requires programs to include a number of specified components, including integrating arts and foreign language across the curriculum and instruction in each of the four disciplines of dance, drama, music and the visual arts that includes the core content skills and knowledge taught in a sequential manner and includes all students in the elementary school. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB154/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 154
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Governance |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Clarifies the specific qualifications for members of the State Board of Education regarding age, education, business or political ties, relation to any education department employee, etc. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB152.htm
Title: S.B. 152
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Governance--Site-Based Management |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that experienced school council members, who are already required to complete three clock hours of training in school-based decisionmaking, may fulfill this requirement by taking part in the training required for new school council members. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB134/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 134
Source: ttp://www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a not-for-profit primary care center which is a participant in the State Patient Access and Care System of the Department for Medicaid Services, to enter into a written agreement with a board of education to provide a school-based health care program. Requires that a physician, physician assistant or an advanced registered nurse practitioner be employed at the school satellite location of the primary care center, and may include additional health care professionals. Allows the program to participate in the school's health education program. Until August 1, 2004, this section applies only to primary care centers operating a satellite school-based health care program as of the effective date of this act, and until August 1, 2004, no board may enter into an agreement with a not-for-profit primary care center that was not already in operation as of the effective date of this act. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB328/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 328
Source: StateNet |
Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Includes any county or independent school district in the definition of "public agency" as related to interlocal cooperation agreements. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB133/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 133
Source: StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows a local superintendent to waive the requirement that a director of pupil personnel in a district devote his or her entire time to the duties of the office. The superintendent must report this action to the commissioner of education. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB224/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 224
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Adopted 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows that if no certified early childhood education teacher is available, the superintendent may ask that a one-year probationary interdisciplinary early childhood education certificate be granted. Establishes prerequisites for this probationary certificate. Establishes requisites for one-year renewals of the probationary certificate. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/016/002/140.htm
Title: 16 KAR 2:140
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar |
P-3 Ensuring Quality |
Adopted 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the professional certificate for interdisciplinary early childhood education, birth to primary, the teacher standards, and the standards for approval of a program leading to this certificate. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/016/002/040.htm
Title: 16 KAR 2:040
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
In response to concerns about program effectiveness and fairness, directs the Interim Joint Committee on Education to study the five-year-old Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship Program, the different high school grading systems across the state, student course-taking patterns, long-term financial needs and other aspects of the program, in order to make recommendations to the 2004 session of the general assembly. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HC141/bill.doc
Title: H.C.R. 141
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Higher Education Student Loan Corporation, KHESLC; changes the definitions of eligible borrower, institution and lender to include any individual or entity approved by the corporation, and the definition of insured student loan or student loan to include any educational loan; grant KHESLC the authority to cause educational loans to be made as well as to make loans; relates to the issuance of bonds or notes for loan purposes. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB130/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 130
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Deletes references that prohibit the use of student financial aid funds, including Education Excellence Scholarship funds, for students who plan to major in theology, divinity, or religious education. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB40/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 40
Source: StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Moves State Board for Proprietary Education to be attached to the Finance and Administration Cabinet, Department for Administration, Division of Occupations and Professions, rather than the Cabinet for Workforce Development. Specifies that the three members from list of seven names submitted by Kentucky Association of Career Colleges and Schools represent privately-owned educational institutions. Changes from two to three the number of members who represent technical schools, and from six to five the number of members representing the public at large. Specifies that the director of the division of occupations and professions in the finance and administration cabinet must serve as the board's executive director. Deletes language allowing the board to employ and determine the pay of the director and board administrative staff. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB179/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 179
Source: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Allows the state commissioner of education to approve five disaster days for a school district that was closed at least ten days due to disastrous weather conditions during the 2002-03 academic year. Certified staff are required to report to work and engage in instructional activities or professional development during the five disaster days. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB132/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 132
Source: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Requires the Kentucky Missing Child Information Center to provide the state registrar and the commissioner of education with names of all missing and recovered children who were born in the Commonwealth; requires the Department of Education to distribute weekly to public and private schools the names of all missing and recovered children and require a school to notify local law enforcement or the Kentucky State Police, rather than the department as previously required, of contact with a missing child. Requires a school to report to local law enforcement or the Kentucky State Police, rather than the justice cabinet as was previously required, any request of school records pertaining to a missing child or knowledge of the whereabouts of any missing child. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB156/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 156
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
School Safety |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes a Safety Education Fund to be administered by the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education to initiate education programs in the public schools and other agencies to reduce and prevent injuries and the loss of life. Specifies that fund must provide funds to initiate injury prevention curricula and training program; allots grants to fire departments for education programs. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB398/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 398
Source: StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Increases the stopping distance for school buses at railroad crossings to a range of fifteen to fifty feet from the nearest track.
Title: S.B. 132
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
Postsec. |
Requires publishers to provide printed and nonprinted postsecondary instructional materials in an electronic format at no cost to a postsecondary institution or the state repository for alternative format instructional materials for use by students with disabilities. Requires that the electronic version meet various criteria, including that it maintain the structural integrity of the instructional material. Sets forth procedures for requesting and sending electronic or alternative format instructional materials including braille and audio recordings. Allows the council on postsecondary education to create a consortium, the State Repository for Alternative Format Instructional Materials, to function as a state repository for electronic files and alternative format materials. Requires the council to collaborate with representatives of every postsecondary institution to ensure that students with disabilities have instructional materials in appropriate alternative formats within the first week of class. Requires the council to collaborate with appropriate entities to include in its annual status report on postsecondary education in Kentucky an evaluation of the need for statewide technical assistance, training and other support to make alternative format instructional materials more available and useable. Includes further provisions relating to repository and postsecondary instructional materials in electronic format. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB85.htm
Title: S.B. 85
Source: StateNet |
State Policymaking |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the Kentucky representatives of the Southern Regional Education Board's Legislative Advisory Council must include three members each from the KY senate and KY house, at least one of whom from each chamber must belong to the minority party, appointed by the leader of each respective chamber. Requires the Senate President and the Speaker of the House to each select five delegates to the Legislative Work Conference. The delegates must include the Legislative Advisory Council members from each chamber. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB252/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 252
Source: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Creates new section allowing any individual who has a bachelor's degree in any subject area from a regionally or nationally accredited postsecondary institution to be given a substitute teaching certificate by the Education Professional Standards Board. This permits the recipient to apply for a position as a substitute teacher for any subject area at any grade level in any local district. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB252/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 252
Source: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Specifies that the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board may allocate funds only to districts or teachers for purposes for which other funds are not being received. Allows the Education Professional Standards Board to limit the participants allowed in a given enrollment period due to lack of funds. Also allows the board to decrease the rate of reimbursement towards the certification fee and limit terms under which teacher may receive pay and release time if s/he does not complete all national board certification requirements in one year and requests a second year. Allows Education Professional Standards Board to reduce the certification fee reimbursement owed a teacher who receives payment other than a repayable loan for the same end from another entity, and which combined payment would equal more than 100% of the certification fee. Adds fees for retaking one or more sections of the national board assessment for initial national board certification to expenses which must be borne by the teacher. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/HB252/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 252
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the written examination prerequisites for teacher certification, including the required tests, the minimum acceptable level of achievement on each test, the fee for each test, and the procedure for retaking the test. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/016/006/010.htm
Title: 16 KAR 6:010
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Signed into law 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the education professional standards board to conduct a two-year internship pilot program for new teachers between July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2006. Requires the board to promulgate administrative regulations defining the program and implementing components. Requires the board to report preliminary findings to the interim joint committee on education by October 1, 2005, and a final report by October 1, 2006. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/03RS/SB95/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 95
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Adopted 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the procedures for local school districts to follow to determine whether other qualified applicants are available to fill a teaching or nonteaching position, and if not, for filling the position with a retired member. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/702/001/150.htm
Title: 702 KAR 1:150
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 01/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes emergency rules pertaining to coverage and payment for Kentucky Early Intervention Program services. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/911/002/200E.htm
Title: 911 KAR 2:200E
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Adopted 01/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the provisions relating to early intervention services for which payment shall be made on behalf of eligible recipients. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/911/002/200.htm
Title: 911 KAR 2:200
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Emergency Rule Adoption 01/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes emergency rules regarding the eligibility requirements and application procedures for administration of the Teachers' National Certification Incentive Trust Fund established in KRS 161.131-134 and funded in the Governor's Fiscal Year 2003 Spending Plan (EO 2002-727). http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/notofint.htm http://www.kyepsb.net/Legislative/national_board/0203registration.htm
Title: 16 KAR 1:040E
Source: StateNet |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 12/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes emergency rules pertaining to early intervention program assessment and service planning. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/kar/911/002/130E.htm
Title: 911 KAR 2:130E
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Active 10/2002 |
P-12 |
Supplemental Education Services RFP; closing date 10/15/02: (http://www.kde.state.ky.us/osis/resources/ssRFP.asp - page expires 10/15/02)
Source: Kentucky Department of Education Web site |
Student Supports--Remediation |
09/2002 |
P-12 |
Kentucky's Education Department approved criteria for selecting supplemental-services providers for students
in low-performing schools. Among other criteria, applicants must:
Have a demonstrated record of effectiveness or have a high probability of increasing student academic achievement.
Provide supplemental educational services that are consistent with state academic standards (The Standards and Indicators for School Improvement, Kentucky Core Content and Kentucky Student Performance Descriptors).
Provide research-based instruction that is of high quality and designed to increase student achievement.
Meet all applicable federal, state and local health, safety and civil rights laws.
Provide instruction and content that is secular, neutral and non-ideological.
Provide parents of children receiving services with information on progress of children in increasing achievement, in a format and, to the extent practicable, a language that parents can understand.
Be financially sound.
Provide instruction in addition to what is provided during the school day.
Source: http://www.kde.state.ky.us/osis/resources/rfp.rtf |
No Child Left Behind |
Active 06/2002 |
P-12 |
2002 Consolidated Plan (dated 6/10/92): http://www.kde.state.ky.us/osis/resources/armando.asp
Source: Kentucky Department of Education Web site |
Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Makes it explicit that the Office of Education Accountability has a responsibility to periodically review personnel policies and practices relating to recruitment, selection, evaluation, termination, and promotion of personnel.
Title: S.B. 166
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the membership of the Education assessment and accountability subcommittee include 4 members from each chamber, including at least 1 member of the minority party in the chamber; provides that a majority of the membership shall constitute a quorum; provides that actions that require affirmative vote of a majority.
Title: H.B. 292
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Changes the time frame for reporting state assessment results from September 15 to 150 days following the first day the assessment can be administered. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB621/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 621
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits nonpublic schools that have voluntarily been certified by the Board of Education to conduct national and state criminal background checks on new certified hires. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB595/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 595
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires all new applicants and persons initially renewing a commercial drivers license (CDL) to undergo a criminal background check; allows a person who is not a resident to be issued a CDL instruction permit and CDL if the person is enrolled in a truck driving program; provides that nonresidents are issued a provisional Class D license for purposes of including an instruction permit in a single license; increases fees for duplicate CDLs.
Title: H.B. 189
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to commercial driver licenses and commercial driver training schools; requires all persons applying for a license to operate a CDL driver training school, and all persons applying to be a CDL driver training instructor to undergo a criminal history background check; requires all CDL schools to own or lease at least one commercial motor vehicle; expands definition of residency; requires annual report on the Motorcycle Safety Education Fund.
Title: H.B. 190
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Changes name of Division of Secondary Vocational Education within state department of education to Division of Career and Technical Education.
Title: S.B. 147
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides that minors who are seventeen years old and who will become eighteen years old on or before the day of the regular election may serve as an election officer for the primary and general election in which he or she is qualified to vote; provides that students who serve as election officers shall be granted one day of excused absence for each election day served. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB251/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 251
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Directs the Department of Education to implement the recommendations of the Interim Joint Committee on Education related to economic education; provides for related teacher professional development.
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/HJ25/bill.doc
Title: H.J.R. 25
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides that a mining permit is not required of a landowner if coal extraction is related to construction, and the coal or proceeds of a coal sale are donated to charitable, governmental,or educational organizations; requires that technical assistance be provided by the Department for Surface Mining and Reclamation.
Title: H.B. 405
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--Site-Based Management |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Allows building principal applicants considered by school-based decision making councils until September 15 to provide evidence that they are qualified as required by law, administrative regulations, and school board policies; permits the superintendent to submit names of qualified applicants who have pending certification based on recent completion of preparation requirements, out-of-state preparation, and alternative routes to certification.http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB55/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 55
Source: http://www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Vision screening examinations must be performed and submitted to the public school, public preschool, or Head Start program a child enters between the ages of 3 and 6 years old.
Title: S.B. 207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes a full-time position of education school nurse consultant within the Department of Education; specifies data collection and reporting for schools and local health departments; requires protocols on school health services to be maintained in each school library; specifies that nothing shall be construed to limit a student's attendance at public school or to deny, prohibit, or limit the administration of first aid or emergency procedures.
Title: H.B. 126
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Directs the local board of education to award high school diplomas to honorably discharged veterans of World War II who were enrolled in, but did not complete, high school prior to their service in the United States Armed Forces during World War II.
Title: H.B. 45
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
International Benchmarking |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Urges the Board of Education to encourage educators, students and education policymakers to participate in international educational exchange programs; urges the department to identify exchange programs, curricula and information for districts to increase students' and educators' knowledge of other cultures and systems of government. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/SC142/bill.doc
Title: S.C.R. 142
Source: |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Amends existing law to specify that tuition waiver for foster and adopted children applies to undergraduate programs and may include part-time students; clarify eligibility requirements and add that out-of-state adopted student may be eligible for waiver of in-state tuition costs; set requirements for participation by Department for Juvenile Justice foster children to include recommendation from department official, commitment of a period of two years, termination of parental rights, or prior commitment to Cabinet for Families and Children; require confirmation of eligibility status by state agencies; permit student participation in federal work study program; require state agencies to report on the number of students participating in tuition waiver program; require Council on Postsecondary Education to report nonidentifying data on graduation rates; and clarify that postsecondary institutions shall not be required to forfeit funds from other sources of financial assistance for foster or adopted student. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recarch/02rs/HB202/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 202
Source: Kentucky Legislature website |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Act amends law to include university safety and security departments in list of those to receive proceeds of firearm sales to buy body armor and those authorized to dispose of firearms.
Title: H.B. 338
Source: Kentucky legislature website |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to the Kentucky educational excellence scholarship awards; permits a student who is a Kentucky resident but attends high school out-of- state while his or her parent or guardian is serving in the United States military service to qualify for Kentucky educational excellence scholarship awards.http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB59/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 59
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
The act increases the amount of bonds the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation may issue from $950,000,000 to $1,950,000.000.
Title: H.B. 131
Source: Lexis |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Permits students enrolled in an equivalent undergraduate program as defined by the Council on Postsecondary Education to qualify for college access funds if otherwise qualified. Includes recipients of Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarships. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB684/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 684
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to student loans; requires for initial issuance and renewal of a professional license that an applicant who has received financial aid is meeting the repayment obligation; requires authority and licensing agency to agree on exchanging information on borrowers; requires the Lottery Corporation and authority to develop a system to provide names of borrowers in default so that prize winnings can be claimed and credited to borrower's account. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/2002rsrecord/HB296/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 296
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Amend current law to increase the amount of compensation for board member of the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to $100/day for their services; to permit meetings of the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation board of directors to be conducted by alternate means rather than personal attendance; maintain public access to meetings; and permit board members to receive $100/day for their services. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recarch/02rs/HB505/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 505
Source: KY Legislature website |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits school closings for primary elections.
Title: H.B. 529
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Extended Day Programs |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the commissioner of education to approve district requests for grant waivers that would allow the district to use grants for extended day/week/year through an "alternative service delivery option," including offering programs during the school day.
Title: H.B. 626
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Creates the "Michael Minger fire prevention fund" with funds collected from civil fines; uses the funds to educate students and campus personnel of postsecondary education institutions regarding the dangers of fire and methods of fire prevention; investigates fires and threatens of fires on campuses. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/recarch/02rs/HB829.htm
Title: H.B. 829
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Renders third degree assault any incidence of recklessly, with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, or intentionally causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a public or private elementary or secondary school employee or volunteer acting in the course and scope of the employee's employment or volunteer's service. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/2002rsrecord/SB80/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 80
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
States intent to ensure to the degree feasible that all students with reading accommodations have textbooks and instructional materials in accessible formats; requires the Department of Education to give preferential procurement status to textbook and instructional materials from publishers who make their materials available in accessible formats for use by students with disabilities. Requires publishers of approved textbooks in public schools in the state to provide computer files or electronic formats of textbooks, as well as digital files from which recordings of the textbook may be made. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/SB243/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 243
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Special Populations--Corrections Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Shortens the detention period of a child charged with a public offense; relates to inspection of juvenile detention facilities; relates to transportation of children; relates to transfer of children; relates to medical care and education of children; relates to criteria for determining how a child is to be tried; relates to imposition of fines; relates to the local alternatives to detention fund and its use.
Title: H.B. 145
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
State Policymaking |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Reorganizes the Kentucky Department of Education by reassigning duties, resources, and staff, renaming and realigning organizational units and abolishing two divisions; provides that the Commissioner of Education shall approve requests for all disaster days from a school district for those days missed because of flooding above 5 days missed for that reason during the 2002 spring semester. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/SB147/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 147
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Student Achievement |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Education, by 11/01 of each year, to provide each school council, or the principal if a school council does not exist, with nonaggregated data on its students' performance on the statewide test with an equity analysis on the achievement gap between the subpopulations of students. Districts and local school councils must set biennial targets for reducing the achievement gap and compose plans addressing specified areas. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/SB168/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 168
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes a study group composed of educators, private citizens, and two legislators to review the current format and scheduling of the boys' and girls' high school state basketball tournaments and make recommendations prior to scheduling the 2003-2004 tournaments. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB593/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 593
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
State Board of Education must require an agency or organization designated to manage interscholastic athletics to adopt bylaws establishing two nonpublic school member representatives on the agency's or organization's board of control. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/SB210/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 210
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Local boards of education must require an annual medical examination performed by a physician, physician assistant, advanced registered nurse practitioner, or chiropractor for a student seeking eligibility to participate in high school interscholastic athletics. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/SB142/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 142
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits the Education Professional Standards Board to issue a conditional one-year certificate to a teacher who has completed teacher preparation program but has not successfully completed the required assessments if the employing school district and teacher preparation institution agree to provide technical assistance and mentoring support to the new teacher. Teacher must successfully complete required assessments before entering the internship program. Bill also revises duties and powers of Education Professional Standards Board as well as powers of the executive director of such. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/SB192/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 192
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to school employees sick leave benefits to include foster care in the definition of immediate family.
Title: H.B. 56
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to teachers; grants a percentage increase in compensation at least equal to the cost-of-living adjustment that is provided state government workers; specifies that a local school district may develop differentiated compensation programs that provide additional compensation; establishes a professional compensation fund to provide grants to local districts.
Title: H.B. 402
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Includes persons whose positions require certification or a four-year postsecondary degree and who provide part-time and substitute services in positions traditionally covered by the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System (KTRS) as members so these persons will make contributions to the system and be eligible for benefits. Also addresses KTRS requirements regarding back salary or reinstating membership for certain members. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/record/02rs/HB637/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 637
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Teaching Quality--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits retired teachers and administrators to be appointed to serve on teacher tribunals. Establishes that tribunal members are to be selected from a pool of trained applicants. Permits the Department of Education to use funds appropriated for professional development for tribunal member training. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/SB211/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 211
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Urges local school districts, postsecondary education institutions, the Kentucky Department of Education, and other education entities to promote the formation of Future Educators Clubs.
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/02RS/HJ188/bill.doc
Title: H.J.R. 188
Source: www.lrc.state.ky.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes a burial honor guard program for veteran's funerals; establishes the veterans' service organization burial honor guard trust fund to offset costs; authorizes local school boards to provide academic credit and excused absences for secondary students participating in the Burial Honor Guard Program.
Title: H.B. 231
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Creates a special Parent-Teacher Association license plate.
Title: H.B. 254
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Includes a representative of the State's independent colleges and universities as a member on the Council on Postsecondary Education; requires the member to be selected by the board of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
Title: H.B. 191
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Permits public and private school students to self- administered asthma medications when the school receives written authorization from the parent and health care provider; requires statements to be kept on file at the school; requires parent or guardian to sign a statement acknowledging that the school has no liability from any injury.
Title: H.B. 353
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires high schools to provide access to campuses and to student directory information for official recruiting representatives of various military organizations to inform students of educational and career opportunities in the armed forces.
Title: H.B. 110
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to college preparatory educational programs; requires the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a core advanced placement curriculum, to expand access to advanced placement courses though the Kentucky Virtual High School; requires school districts to grant credit to students for courses taken via the Kentucky Virtual High School.
Title: S.B. 74
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to tobacco research; establishes the Tobacco Research and Development Center to be overseen by the Tobacco Research and Development Center Board; allows for expansion of the new center's research beyond tobacco into related and complementary interests; includes plant natural products research and research into development of new crops based on tobacco and other plants.
Title: S.B. 86
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to the Kentucky Education Excellence Scholarship Program; requires enrollment in a Kentucky high school for at least 140 days of the school term; provides for the students who complete high school graduation requirements at the end of the fall academic term.
Title: H.B. 330
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Adds definitions regarding college tuition waiver programs for deceased veterans' dependents; authorizes promulgation of administrative regulations by the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs; allows tuition waiver to dependents of veterans who served during any war declared by the United States, died while on active duty, or who died as a result of a service connected disability but were not residents of Kentucky; makes other provisions.
Title: H.B. 112
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Provides tuition waivers for children of veterans who acquire a disability as a direct result of the veteran's service.
Title: H.B. 115
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
Postsec. |
Replaces the membership of the Council on Postsecondary Education on the Developmental Disabilities Council with a single member of a nongovernmental agency and private nonprofit groups concerned with services for persons with developmental disabilities.
Title: S.B. 131
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Eliminates specific dates for notification of reductions in teacher salaries or responsibilities in order to create uniform notice periods for school districts operating on year-round and traditional calendars.
Title: H.B. 332
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to Kentucky's Postsecondary Education Prepaid Tuition Program; permits the board to develop and maintain a scholarship program for financially disadvantaged families and students; clarifies the payment of tuition contracts; clarifies the payment procedures and value of accounts when a prepaid tuition contract is terminated.
Title: H.B. 386
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 |
Adds high school certificate of completion as an acceptable credential to meet qualification as a classified school employee. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/2002rsrecord/HB282/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 282
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to criminal records checks; provides that any criminal records checks for school volunteers are valid for five years unless school board determines an additional check is needed earlier based on hearsay or actual evidence; provides that students in an educational institution that observes or participates in educational activities under supervision of a teacher or administrator are exempt from certain provisions; requires teachers to have criminal records checks.
Title: H.B. 204
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Directs a study of the Advanced Placement Program in Kentucky's high schools; directs the co-chairs of the Interim Joint Committee to Education to appoint a special subcommittee composed of four Senate members and four House of Representatives members to study Kentucky's Advanced Placement Program; directs the subcommittee to develop a plan that assures that every Kentucky student has access to Advanced Placement courses and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education.
Title: S.C.R. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum--Mathematics |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Retains priority for funding to improve middle school mathematics teachers' content knowledge; permits the Department of Education to approve funding for other content areas during 2000-2002 for middle school teachers if all funds are not needed for the first priority; provides that funds in the Teachers' Professional Growth Fund do not lapse at the end of each year.
Title: H.B. 66
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Requires that school districts adopt a school calendar designating opening and closing dates and instructional days and permitting the scheduling of school breaks outside of the minimum school term; requires that schools allow teacher delegates to attend statewide professional meetings and hire substitute teachers if schools are scheduled to operate on meeting days; allows Federal School Breakfast Program to provide students with 15 minutes to eat breakfast.
Title: S.B. 108
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to exceptional children and youth; clarifies a change in educational placement occurs if, due to a suspension, an exceptional child is removed for more than 10 consecutive days during a school year or the child is subjected to a series of removals that constitute a pattern because of the number of days the child is being removed or other factors.
Title: S.B. 64
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Defines the purposes of career and technical education; relates to school district funding for area centers and departments; requires a report on the academic achievement of technical education students with at least 3 high school credits, further assessments and assistance for educational improvement where needed; clarifies that there shall be no funding deduction for students attending state-operated vocational institutions.
Title: H.B. 185
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to school facilities construction; provides that "available local revenue" for school building construction shall no longer include the balance of the general fund budget above 10 percent and shall now include the bonding potential of capital outlay and building funds.
Title: H.B. 173
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to education councils; defines "P-16 council" or "council of partners"; specifies that the Council on Postsecondary Education administer a competitive grant program to enable the establishment of local P-16 councils; criteria for participation in the grant program and the amount of the grants shall be established jointly by the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Kentucky Board of Education; a local P-16 council shall promote teacher preparation and professional development, the alignment of competency standards and the elimination of barriers that impede student transition from preschool through baccalaureate programs; requires an annual report from each P-16 council.
Title: H.B. 17
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the inclusion of students enrolled in a Congressional Page School or in a foreign exchange high school program under the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship Program; permits a student who maintains Kentucky residency to earn credit toward a base Kentucky educational excellence scholarship program award for the academic grade point average earned while participating in an approved foreign exchange program or in the Congressional Page School.
Title: S.B. 71
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
Postsec. |
Requires public postsecondary institutions to waive tuition and mandatory fees for a foster or adopted child who is a full-time student to the extent not covered by other student aid programs; requires that and eligible student meet all entrance requirements and maintain academic eligibility while enrolled; defines eligible student.
Title: H.B. 62
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to gubernatorial appointments to university boards of regents; modifies residency requirements for gubernatorial appointees to university and college boards of regents; relates to gubernatorial appointees to community college boards of regents; relates to gubernatorial appointees to technical college boards of regents.
Title: H.B. 300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--State Prof. Standards Bds. |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to the reorganization of the Education Professional Education Standards Board; authorizes the Board to be one of accrediting authorities for a standard college or university; requires educators to be certified by the Board; the Board and the Kentucky Department of Education shall develop a strategy to increase the number of minority teachers and administrators..
Title: H.B. 78
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to reorganization; provides that certain employees of the Workforce Development Cabinet, Department of Adult Education and Literacy, and the Department for Technical Education may continue to participate in Teachers' Retirement and that others may opt out; provides that certain employees participate in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System.
Title: H.B. 88
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
Signed into law 06/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires statewide teacher recruitment plan; requires state department to establish teacher academies in core disciplines; makes funds available for improvement of teacher preparation programs; establishes comprehensive statewide system for collecting and using data to plan for teaching needs; requires professional standards board to establish criteria for approving colleges of education that include national standards, to define out-of-field teaching and identify the number of teachers in that category and to conduct an annual review of diversity in colleges of education.
Title: S.B. 77
Source: Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, Summer 2000 |
Accountability |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee to advise and monitor the Office of Education Accountability.
Title: S.B. 280
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to adult education and literacy programs; requires the Department for Adult Education and Literacy to enter into long-term agreements with the comprehensive coordinating entities; requires the department to create and implement a funding formula to ensure that all counties have access to core adult education and literacy programs; relates to eligibility for training through the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation; includes training in retail under certain circumstances.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the Kentucky Department of Education to establish and implement a comprehensive statewide strategy to provide assistance to local districts and to address the dropout problem; allocates funds.
Title: H.B. 77
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires state criminal records checks of adult volunteers in public schools who have contact with students on a regularly scheduled or continuing basis; permits school boards to pay costs of criminal records checks.
Title: H.B. 136
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Business Involvement |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Kentucky Innovation Commission to provide ongoing advice, direction and policy recommendations to the governor and general assembly relating to the state's knowledge-driven businesses, research development initiatives and related high-skill training and education in the commonwealth. Creates a Kentucky research & development voucher program that provides funding to small and medium-sized, Kentucky-based companies to work in partnership with universities. The purpose of the voucher program is to accelerate knowledge transfer and technological innovation, and to spur economic growth.
Title: H.B. 572
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs the Interim Joint Committee on Education to study the issue of the instruction of the principles of economics and the need for promoting economic education during the 2000-2002 legislative interim.
Title: H.C.R. 82
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requests the Kentucky Board Of Education to encourage teachers and school administrators to post and teach from historic displays of original documents reflecting American history, which may include the Ten Commandments; permits cost of posting and maintaining displays to be defrayed in whole or part by voluntary private contributions.
Title: S.J.R. 57
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum--Mathematics |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Fund to provide moneys to teachers of middle school mathematics for tuition reimbursements and stipends for approved university and college courses, approved professional development programs and preparation for certification by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.
Title: S.B. 77
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs the Cabinet for Economic Development, the Department of Education, and the Transportation Cabinet to work together to create a unified plan for increasing levels of assistance to counties with high unemployment, low educational attainment, and low per capita income.
Title: H.J.R. 142
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides for the distribution of money received from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement; establishes the Rural Development Fund, the Early Childhood Development Fund, and the Kentucky Health Care Improvement Fund; creates the Lung Cancer Research Fund administered through the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville; provides that all interest income accrue to the funds; provides that the funds are non-lapsing.
Title: H.B. 583
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the Auditor of Public Accounts to be responsible for an annual audit of the funds in each school district cooperative, school district consortium, school district corporation, and any other entity formed by school districts; provides the auditor may allow a certified public accountant to perform the audit but shall retain the right to receive the audit report and management letters.
Title: H.B. 689
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--Site-Based Management |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Deletes the requirement that teacher representatives on school-based decision making councils be Kentucky residents, allows a school district employee working at a different school to require school-based decision making councils to adopt a policy to be implemented by the principal regarding procedures to assist the council with consultation in the selection of personnel by the principal.
Title: S.B. 76
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires immunization certificates for hepatitis B for sixth grade school children; provides that the requirement will sunset following the 2008-2009 school year; provides for promulgation of administrative regulation.
Title: H.B. 564
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the local school superintendent to appoint a finance officer who shall be responsible financial management for that district; requires training and continuing education; requires notification of property tax assessments from the Revenue Cabinet before the Commissioner of Education can certify tax rates; deletes references to several specific taxes that are now part of the general tax rate.
Title: H.B. 668
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Vetoed 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits the spouse of a principal to work in the principal's school if the district contains elementary schools, 1 middle school and 1 high school; changes references from "chief state school officer" to the "commissioner of education"; provides that contract employees are considered employees of the school districts.
Title: S.B. 287
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits a local board to enter into a contract with a superintendent of schools for a term of no more than 3 years that is extended annually for a 1 year period upon evaluation and approval of the board; specifies procedures for contract extensions.
Title: H.B. 420
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to reorganization; creates the Office of Early Childhood Development within the Office of the Governor.
Title: H.B. 240
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Early Childhood Development Authority in the Office of the Governor to manage expenditures of the early childhood development fund; requires 17 members to be appointed; sets term limits for members of the authority; establishes duties of the authority; requires the authority to develop a state plan for funding priorities and programs; creates community early childhood councils for service areas designated by the authority.
Title: H.B. 706
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; expands the definition of college to include postsecondary educational institutions accredited by all regional accrediting associations.
Title: H.B. 44
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Adds a staff member to the board of directors for community colleges; requires that the staff member must be classified or mid-management employee who does not hold faculty rank.
Title: S.B. 259
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Adds a staff member to the board of directors for community colleges; requires that the staff member must be classified or mid-management employee who does not hold faculty rank.
Title: S.B. 259
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the earthquake emergency procedure system in schools; includes preparedness for tornadoes in the procedures; requires a designated "safe area" defined as an enclosed area with no windows; requires a drop procedure and safe area evacuation practice at least twice each school year.
Title: S.B. 229
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Student Supports--Remediation |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Directs the Education, Assessment, and Accountability Review Subcommittee to study the issues of adequate preparation of students for promotion to higher grades, the establishment of appropriate educational criteria for entrance into higher grades, and remediation rates of entering postsecondary students.
Title: H.C.R. 88
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits a district to establish a sick leave bank for school employees in addition to teachers; provides for both teachers and employees to participate in the sharing of sick leave under specific conditions; adds sick leave bank benefits for castastrophic loss to personal or real property; requires certification of the need for a leave of absence by a physician only if the leave is due to illness, injury, impairment, or a physical or mental condition.
Title: H.B. 373
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires school boards that provide a sick-leave program to certified employees to also provide a sick-leave program for noncertified employees of school boards; purchases service credit for each employee's unused sick leave not in excess of six months; allows unlimited accumulation of sick leave days.
Title: H.B. 675
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to teachers' retirement act; defines critical shortage area as a lack of certified teachers in particular subject matters, in grade levels, or in geographic locations as determined by the commissioner of education; implements the hiring of teachers in critical shortage areas; provides that a retired member may return to work in a critical shortage area without loss of retirement benefits; permits school districts to hire retired members as full-time employees.
Title: H.B. 519
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Governor's Office of Technology; creates the Kentucky Information Technology Advisory Council; abolishes the Department of Information Systems, the Kentucky Information Resources Management Commission and the Communications Advisory Council; transfers the Office of Geographic Information Systems to the new office; exempts retirement system records from the authority of the new office; makes the new office responsible for agency records privacy and confidentiality.
Title: H.B. 842
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to entities authorized to utilize the services of the Kentucky Information Highway, to grant access and use, on the same terms as state agencies, by any entity that has been approved for economic development incentives under programs approved and administered by the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority and by nonprofit organizations whose primary purpose is the delivery of services related to education, economic development, or cultural arts and humanities.
Title: H.B. 901
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the 6 groups for instructional textbooks and programs be arranged by content if possible for all K-12 subject areas; requires the State Textbook Commission to provide a recommended list of textbooks and materials with a consumer guide; provides for textbook and program review standards and reviewer compensation; permits public inspection of textbooks and programs under consideration; requires a public hearing; includes programs and materials for the visually impaired.
Title: S.B. 91
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Governor's Council on Vocational Education; establishes the Kentucky Job Training Coordinating Council; replaces the Kentucky Job Training Coordinating Council with the Office of Training and Reemployment within the Cabinet for Workforce Development.
Title: H.B. 610
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Adds core values and qualities of good character to make moral and ethical decisions in life to the capacities students shall be allowed and assisted to acquire by the system of public education; requires schools to develop their students' ability to become self-sufficient individuals of good character; requires the Board of Education to include strategies to incorporate character education throughout a school's curriculum.
Title: H.B. 157
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to requiring instruction in flag etiquette in schools; requires the Kentucky Board Of Education to develop a program of instruction relating to the United States and the Kentucky state flags; require that the program of instruction be provided to each public school for use in its course of instruction.
Title: H.B. 506
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to geography education; establishes the Kentucky Geographic Education Board and the Kentucky Geography Education Trust Fund; permits the Fund to receive grants and gifts from public and private sources.
Title: H.B. 254
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--District |
*****To GOVERNOR 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires the local school superintendent to appoint a finance officer who shall be responsible financial management for that district; requires 42 hours of training and continuing education every two years from a provider approved by the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 668
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to procurement; increases the cost of construction projects and purchases for which state agencies, institutions of higher education and the legislative branch may use small purchase procedures; provides for local government newspaper advertisement for bids; provides monthly notification to the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation of certain public projects; requests a list of suggested vendors from the Corporation.
Title: H.B. 249
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Kentucky Board of Education, at the request of a local school district superintendent, to waive reporting and paperwork requirements upon a finding of good cause, except reports required by federal law or related to health, safety, or civil rights.
Title: H.B. 884
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--Site-Based Management |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires that a parent member on a school council not be an employee or a relative of an employee of the school in which the parent serves; requires procedures to assist the school council with consultation in the selection of personnel by the principal; requires each school council to annually review data provided by the Kentucky Department of Education by December 31 each year on its students' performance levels and adopt a plan to assure that each student makes progress.
Title: S.B. 265
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-16 or P-20 |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Kentucky Early Mathematics Testing Program, located at a public university, to provide information to high school sophomores and juniors regarding their level of mathematics knowledge in relation to college standards in order to encourage students to take additional high school mathematics courses and reduce the number of students needing mathematics remediation in college.
Title: H.B. 178
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. |
Creates the Commonwealth Postsecondary Education Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund to be governed by a board of directors and administered by a division in the Office of the State Treasurer; establishes membership and duties regarding the prepaid tuition program; identifies use of prepaid tuition; defines processes for termination of prepaid tuition contracts and refunds; makes appropriation.
Title: H.B. 180
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to Education Finance; deletes endowment trust held by the Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust; deletes definition of endowment trust; delegates particular functions to the program administrator; deletes that a beneficiary must be under 15 when account is opened; deletes that payment of benefits must begin once the beneficiary reaches 18; clarifies that earnings in trust not used for qualified educational expenses are not exempt from state taxation.
Title: H.B. 462
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Students--Disabled |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
Postsec. |
Requires that each postsecondary education institution with residence facilities have housing and security policies that assure disabled students a safe environment in which to live and study; provides for an appeals process; requires maintenance of a list of students with disabilities to assure safety of such students during an emergency.
Title: H.B. 321
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Religion |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires a liability insurer to pay according to the terms of the policy an insured who is sued for posting the Ten Commandments in a public school building; provides that such posting is not an illegal act but a legal posting of a historical document.
Title: H.B. 662
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires schools to be closed on the third Monday of January in observance of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.; permits districts to designate the day as one of the four holidays or to not include the day in the minimum school term; requires school closure on day of the general election and on Veteran's Day.
Title: H.B. 347
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Directs the Department of Education to promote strategies to assist school districts in providing a safe transportation system; directs the Department of Education to report on its effect to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by January 1, 2001.
Title: H.J.R. 101
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires each public elementary and secondary school to establish and maintain a school library media center that is staffed by a certified school media librarian; requires school council to consult with the school media librarian on matters pertaining to the facility; permits school media librarian to be employed at two or more schools in a district with the consent of the school council.
Title: H.B. 324
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Service-Learning |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Transfers the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service from the Council on Postsecondary Education to the Office of the Secretary, Cabinet for Families and Children; continues exemption of the Commission's employees from the classified service.
Title: S.B. 233
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates an alternative teaching certification at K-12 and vocational institutions for veterans with at least 6 years on active duty, discharged or released from active duty, at least a bachelor's degree in the subject matter area for which certification is sought, a minimum grade point average and a passing score on the national exam; provides for provisional certification; provides for certification of eligible veterans with 4 or more years of occupational experience.
Title: H.B. 76
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to certified professional counselors; includes licensed professional counseling boards; allows for reciprocity of certification with other states; provides for educational and professional experience levels required for certification by endorsement.
Title: H.B. 290
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides that for persons fired after 8/1/2000, who participate in State Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, State Police Retirement System, or Teachers' Retirement System, there shall be forfeiture of retirement benefits if convicted of a felony related to their employment.
Title: H.B. 737
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Pay-for-Performance |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the intent of the General Assembly to reach a goal that there be at least one national board certified teacher in every public school by 2020; establishes certification trust fund; provides that a public school teacher who attains National Board Certification be given an annual salary supplement.
Title: H.B. 25
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Professional Development |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Permits teachers and employees in the state and locally operated secondary area technology centers to earn up to six college credits per term in tuition-free courses at public postsecondary institutions.
Title: S.B. 240
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Reorganizes departments within the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 79
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
Postsec. |
Reorganizesthe Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority into 6 separate divisions including: Student and Administrative Services,Information Resources and Technology, Legal Services, Loan Policy Services, Loan Administration and Financial Affairs.
Title: H.B. 91
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires a local board of education to develop a policy regarding the possession and use of personal telecommunications devices by a student on school property or at a school-related activity; deletes language prohibiting the possession and use of a paging device by a student on school property or at a school-related activity.
Title: H.B. 266
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Special Education |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; provides that rights for infants, toddlers, and parents served by the State Early Intervention System are mandated by participation in Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; deletes limitation to available funding.
Title: H.B. 51
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |