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Chapter 156

Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. ch. 156

Department Of Education

Commonwealth of Kentucky

156.005Chief state school officer defined for KRS Chapters 156 to 168.156.007Local Superintendents Advisory Council.156.010Commissioner's authority to organize Department of Education -- Composition -- Functions.156.016Abolition of employment positions -- Reorganization.156.018Role of department with respect to program created by KRS 158.798.156.024Department's budget requests to be submitted to state board.156.026Credits allowed transferred district employee.156.027Preferential procurement status for publishers who supply materials in alternative formats for students with disabilities -- Electronic versions of text that are compatible with Braille translation and speech synthesis software -- Digital files.156.029Kentucky Board of Education -- Membership -- Functions. (Effective until July 15, 2026)156.031Existing State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education to remain active until successor board appointed.156.035Legal status of board -- Administration of fund.156.040Qualification of board members.156.060Quorum -- Meetings -- Location of office -- Compensation.156.070General powers and duties of state board -- Administrative regulations -- Designation of teams -- Eligibility to play -- Athletics participation consent form to include information on child dependency, neglect, and abuse -- Restriction on reporting requirements. (Effective until July 15, 2026)156.071Delegation of taking evidence and writing recommendation of disposition to hearing officer or panel -- Compensatory time for staff conducting school facility public hearings.156.072Waiver of reporting requirement.156.074Purchase contract for supplies, equipment -- Specifications -- Terms.156.076Price contracts information to be furnished district boards -- Purchase conditions.156.095Professional development programs and training schedule -- Required topics -- Professional development coordinator -- Long-term improvement plans -- Training related to communication and sexual misconduct -- Electronic consumer bulletin board -- Training to address needs of students at risk of school failure -- Teacher academics -- Annual report to Juvenile Justice Oversight Council.156.097Teacher institutes -- Regulation.156.101Purpose of section -- Definition of "instructional leader" -- Instructional leader improvement program. (Effective until July 15, 2026)156.106Critical shortage areas -- Definition for section and KRS 161.605 -- Appointment of retired teachers and administrators.156.111Superintendents Training Program and Assessment Center -- Local board not responsible for training costs -- Assessment of superintendents required -- Contracts for training providers permitted.156.132Removal or suspension of public school officers -- Procedure, grounds, conditions.156.136Vacancies caused by suspension -- Appointment -- Term -- Payment.156.138Duty of Attorney General.156.142Jurisdiction.156.147Education Management Selection Commission -- Selection of first commissioner of education.156.1475Date of appointment of first commissioner of education.156.148Commissioner of education -- Selection -- Term -- Duties.156.152Price contract agreements for purchase of school buses.156.153School bus standards -- "School bus" defined -- Standards and specifications for accessory equipment and supplies and replacement equipment -- Standards for use of non-school bus passenger vehicles -- Use of clean transportation fuels.156.154Information respecting established price contract agreements -- Purchase conditions of district boards.156.160Promulgation of administrative regulations by Kentucky Board of Education -- Voluntary compliance -- Penalties. (Effective until July 15, 2026)156.161Waiver of administrative regulations and statutes by Kentucky Board of Education -- Request by local board of education -- Limitations -- Procedures -- Schools of innovation. (Effective until July 15, 2026)156.162Elective course on religious scripture -- Purpose -- Restrictions -- Inclusion of course standards in program of studies.156.190Call and conduct of school conferences.156.200Examination and supervision of reports and accounts of boards of education and educational institutions.156.210Powers of chief state school officer.156.230Chief state school officer to prepare publications.156.240Chief state school officer to electronically publish school laws.156.250Biennial report on education.156.255Definitions for KRS 156.255 to 156.295.156.265State Committee for School District Audits.156.275Accountant -- Selection -- Reports.156.285Access to records -- Witnesses -- Subpoena.156.295Offenses -- Penalties.156.395Definitions for KRS 156.395 to 156.476.156.400School subjects review and selection groups -- Instructional materials purchasing.156.405State Quality Curriculum Task Force -- Duties -- Membership -- Instructional materials reviewers.156.407Selection of instructional materials reviewers -- Review and evaluation process -- State-approved list of instructional materials and programs.156.410Standards and criteria for evaluation of instructional materials and programs -- Submissions by publishers and developers.156.412Instructional materials depository -- Establishment -- Duties -- Required use by school districts and Department of Education.156.415Conditions for placing instructional materials and programs on state-approved list.156.433Instructional materials eligible for purchase with state instructional materials funds -- Administrative regulation -- Review procedure -- Purchases by state and distributions to school districts without cost.156.435Adoption of state-approved list -- Rejections -- Publication of list.156.439District allocation of state instructional materials funds -- Use -- School plans -- Carryover.156.440Sample copies of materials selected and placed on state-approved list of instructional materials.156.445Only state-approved instructional material or program to be used as core comprehensive resource -- Exceptions -- When changes to be effective -- Approval of materials for private and parochial schools.156.460School official or employee not to act as instructional material agent.156.465Reward for adoption of instructional materials prohibited.156.476Instructional materials for children with impaired vision -- Requirement that publisher or developer of adopted instructional materials furnish American Printing House for the Blind with text in electronic format.156.480Employees of department or school districts with decision-making authority prohibited from supplying goods or services for which school funds are expended -- Penalties.156.483Restrictions on employing violent offenders or persons convicted of sex crimes -- Criminal record check on job applicants.156.488Department to communicate core content and career-readiness standards, assist in identifying students who are academically behind or have high absentee rates or discipline problems, and develop enhanced courses to be offered.156.492Authority to establish building and construction trade training program -- Conditions. (Effective until July 15, 2026)156.495Program to identify and locate missing children enrolled in Kentucky schools.156.496Family resource and youth services centers -- Design -- Core components -- Location -- Grant program -- Prohibition on abortion counseling and referrals -- Monetary donations.156.4975Definitions for KRS 156.496, 156.4975, and 156.4977.156.4977Grants to local school districts for family resource and youth services centers -- Supplemental grant program to provide health services.156.498Alternate approval procedure for federal food program eligibility for certain organizations.156.500Appointments to reflect reasonable minority representation.156.501Student health services -- Responsibilities of Department of Education and Department for Public Health -- Filling of position.156.502Health services in school setting -- Designated provider -- Liability protection.156.503Committee to study basketball tournaments -- Membership -- Meetings and recommendations.156.551Definitions for KRS 156.551 to 156.555.156.553Teachers' professional growth fund -- Purposes -- Courses -- Duties of Department of Education -- Professional development programs -- Administrative regulations -- Advancement by local boards of funds to teachers for professional development education -- Reimbursement -- Priority for use of funds from 2010 to 2016.156.555Center for Middle School Academic Achievement -- Duties -- Location at college or university.156.557Definitions -- Statewide framework for teaching -- District personnel evaluation system -- Summative evaluations -- Appeals -- Prohibition against disclosure of confidential information -- Limits on reporting of evaluation results.156.560Pilot program for performance-based professional development -- Parameters determined by local board -- Study and report by Department of Education.156.670Development of master plan for education technology. (Effective until July 15, 2026)156.671Strategic plan for distance learning.156.675Prevention of transmission of social media and sexually explicit materials to schools -- Administrative regulations -- Local school district policy on student internet access -- Limitation.156.710Interstate Compact for Education.156.715Kentucky members of interstate commission.156.720Bylaws, where filed.156.730Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.156.735Rights of students whose parents are civilian military employees or members of the National Guard and Reserves same as those afforded in KRS 156.730.156.740Interagency Commission on Educational and Job Training Coordination -- Membership.156.745Purposes -- Responsibilities.156.749Administrative expenses -- Meetings.156.800Definitions for KRS 156.800 to 156.860.156.802Office of Career and Technical Education -- Kentucky Board of Education. (Effective until July 15, 2026)156.804Organizational structure of Office of Career and Technical Education -- Ombudsman.156.806Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee -- Purpose -- Members.156.808Personnel of Office of Career and Technical Education -- Administrative regulations -- Appeals to Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board. (Effective until July 15, 2026)156.810Posting of full-time vacancies.156.812Employee benefits.156.814Personnel files.156.816Grounds for refusal to consider or to disqualify an applicant for, or to remove a person from, a certified or equivalent position.156.818Criminal conviction as grounds for disciplinary action.156.820Employees with continuing status -- Appeals.156.822Appeal from final order of board.156.824Payment of reinstated employee.156.826Employment status.156.828Employee evaluations.156.830Coercion of employees prohibited -- Lay-off priorities.156.832Procedures for lay-offs.156.834Appeal to board of lay-off by continuing status employee.156.836Appeal of board's final order relating to lay-off of continuing status employee.156.838Prohibited activities.156.840Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board.156.842Office of Career and Technical Education to manage state-operated secondary area vocational education and technology centers.156.844Local board's petition to commissioner of education seeking power to manage and control state-operated secondary vocational education and technology center -- Issues related to transfer of employees.156.846Local board's power to relinquish management and control of vocational education center -- Issues related to transfer of employees.156.848Agreements for training workers.156.850Federal acts relating to vocational education accepted.156.852Kentucky Board of Education authorized to carry out vocational education programs.156.854State Treasurer custodian of funds.156.856Tuition and fees in secondary area vocational education and technology centers.156.858Liability insurance for motor vehicles owned or operated by office in vocational schools and centers.156.860Medical and accident insurance for students.156.990Penalties.