Title XIII, Education

All full-time vacancies shall be posted in all schools and offices ten (10) days prior to filling a certified or equivalent position in the classified section of the personnel system contained in KRS 156.800 to 156.860.

(1) All certified, equivalent, and unclassified employees in the Office of Career and Technical Education shall be: (a) Provided the same health insurance coverage as all other state government employees provided in KRS 18A.225; (b) Eligible to participate in the deferred compens…

(1) The records of the Office of Career and Technical Education shall be public records and shall be open to public inspection, as provided in KRS 61.870 to 61.884. (2) (a) A personnel file shall be maintained by the Department of Education for each employee. The files maintained…

remove a person from, a certified or equivalent position. Except as provided by the provisions of KRS 156.800 to 156.860, the appointing authority or designee for the Office of Career and Technical Education may refuse to consider an applicant for a certified or equivalent positi…

Subject to the provisions of KRS 156.820, any certified and equivalent employee who is convicted of a felony or job-related misdemeanor may be subject to any disciplinary action deemed appropriate, including dismissal.

(1) All certified and equivalent employees who previously held merit status under KRS Chapter 18A shall become continuing status employees in the Office of Career and Technical Education. (2) Prior to dismissal, an employee with continuing status shall be notified in writing of t…

(1) Any final order of the board either upholding or invalidating the dismissal, demotion, suspension, or other penalization of a certified, equivalent, or unclassified employee may be appealed either by the employee or by the appointing authority. (2) The party aggrieved may app…

(1) (a) When a certified, equivalent, or unclassified employee has been finally ordered reinstated without loss of pay, pursuant to the provisions of KRS 156.822, the board shall forward a certified copy of the order to the Department of Education. The department shall process pr…

(1) All certified and equivalent employees shall serve a one (1) year probationary period for renewal of limited status. An employee may be separated from the position or reduced in class during this initial probationary period and shall not have a right to appeal except as provi…

(1) The commissioner of education shall adopt written evaluation procedures for all certified and equivalent employees of the Office of Career and Technical Education. The procedures shall be based upon recommendations received from a committee composed of equal numbers of teache…

(1) It shall be unlawful to coerce certified and equivalent employees who may be or who are subject to lay-off to resign or retire in lieu of lay-off. Dismissals shall comply with applicable statutes and lay-offs shall not be utilized as a method of dismissal. (2) In the same off…

(1) A lay-off of an employee with continuing status in the Office of Career and Technical Education due to the abolition of a position, lack of funds, or economic or employment trends resulting in a lack of work or a material change in duties or organization shall comply with the…

(1) A continuing status employee may appeal his lay-off on the grounds that the procedures in KRS 156.832 were not followed. (2) An appeal filed by a continuing status employee shall be filed with the board within thirty (30) days of the effective date of the lay-off. The board s…

employee. (1) A final order of the board either upholding or invalidating the lay-off of a continuing status employee may be appealed either by the employee or by the appointing authority. (2) The party aggrieved may appeal that order by filing a petition with the clerk of the Fr…

(1) No certified or equivalent employee shall be appointed or promoted to, or demoted or dismissed from, any position or in any way favored or discriminated against with respect to employment because of political or religious opinions or affiliations, ethnic origin, sex, disabili…

(1) The Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board is hereby established to conduct personnel appeals from certified and equivalent employees in the Office of Career and Technical Education under KRS 156.800 to 156.860. Appeals shall be conducted in accordance with the provisio…

secondary area vocational education and technology centers. The Office of Career and Technical Education shall have the management and control of state-operated secondary area vocational education and technology centers, and all programs and services operated in these centers.

to manage and control state-operated secondary vocational education and technology center -- Issues related to transfer of employees. (1) (a) A local board of education may submit a request to the commissioner of education to assume authority for the management and control of a s…

education center -- Issues related to transfer of employees. (1) Notwithstanding KRS 156.808, 156.812, 156.814, 156.816, 156.820, and 156.826, upon approval of the Kentucky Board of Education, a local board of education that has operated an area vocational education and technical…

(1) The executive director of the Office of Adult Education within the Department of Workforce Development in the Education and Labor Cabinet and the commissioner of education may enter into agreements to train workers for new manufacturing jobs in new or expanding industries cha…

This state accepts and agrees to comply with all the provisions of the Acts of Congress of the United States approved February 23, 1917, and all subsequent acts relating to vocational education, the purpose of which is to provide training, develop skills, abilities, understanding…

education programs. The Kentucky Board of Education is vested with the authority to carry out the purposes of the program of vocational education and the provisions of the Acts of Congress accepted by KRS 156.850, and is given all the necessary power and authority in promulgating…

The State Treasurer is custodian of all money received by the state from the federal government under the federal acts accepted by KRS 156.850, and the State Treasurer shall collect the money and pay it out upon the order of the commissioner of education.

centers. Tuition and fees for secondary pupils enrolled in the state secondary area vocational education and technology centers operated by the Office of Career and Technical Education shall be free to all residents of Kentucky. The Kentucky Board of Education shall fix the rate …

vocational schools and centers. The commissioner of education may provide liability insurance for licensed and nonlicensed motor vehicles owned or operated by the Office of Career and Technical Education in vocational schools and centers. If the transportation of members of the s…

(1) The Kentucky Board of Education is authorized to provide medical and accident insurance for students enrolled in the state secondary area technology centers and area vocational education centers. The Department of Education may enter into a contract or contracts with one (1) …

(1) Any witness who fails, without legal excuse, to attend or to testify, when required by the chief state school officer under these provisions, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars ($25) for each offense. (2) Any person who violates any of the provisions of KRS 156.…

The school fund shall consist of the fund dedicated by the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth for the purpose of sustaining a system of common schools therein. The annual resources of the fund shall consist of: (1) The interest on the bond of the Commonwealth for one mill…

The net revenue of the common school fund accruing during each school year shall constitute the sum to be distributed. No fee, discount, check, or other incidental expense shall be paid out of the distributable share of the revenue apportioned to any school district.

The officials of each educational institution and each school district supported in whole or in part from taxation shall make a report to the Kentucky Board of Education or the Kentucky Technical Education Personnel Board established in KRS 156.840 at the close of each scholastic…

Duties -- Report. (1) The General Assembly hereby finds and declares that: (a) During the first five (5) years of life, children experience rapid learning and development that have effects that endure their lifetimes; (b) A key milestone in children's development is their transit…

(1) Any school that does not offer a school breakfast program shall submit an annual report no later than September 15 to the Kentucky Board of Education indicating the reasons for not offering the program. The report shall include the number of children enrolled at the school an…

(1) To carry out the purpose of rewarding successful schools as provided in KRS Chapter 158, the Kentucky successful schools trust fund is hereby established in the Finance and Administration Cabinet. Funds appropriated by the General Assembly in each biennial budget for payments…

converted career and technical education centers -- Career and technical education innovation and support fund -- Distribution of funds to state- operated area technology centers and locally operated career and technical education -- Oversight by the Office of Career and Technica…

(1) For purposes of this section: (a) "Career academy" means a small learning community within a larger high school that: 1. Consists of a heterogeneous group of students taking classes together for at least two (2) years and who are taught by a team of teachers from different di…

Department of Education recommendations on teacher compensation. (1) For purposes of this section, "compensation" means the combination of base salary, salary supplements, and other benefits provided a teacher. (2) (a) A school district may develop differentiated compensation pro…

distribution. The Commonwealth of Kentucky shall provide funds for textbooks, programs, and other instructional materials that shall be distributed under an administrative regulation promulgated by the Kentucky Board of Education without cost to pupils attending grades kindergart…

Rental of textbooks -- Free textbooks for certain students. (1) In the purchase and distribution of textbooks for grades nine (9) through twelve (12), if sufficient funds are not available to furnish textbooks for all four (4) grades, the chief state school officer, subject to th…

Each pupil, or his parent or guardian, shall be responsible to the teacher for all books not returned by the pupil, and a pupil not returning all books delivered to him shall not be entitled to the benefits of KRS 157.100 to 157.180 until the books are paid for by the pupil, or h…

The chief state school officer shall each year cause textbooks that have not been made obsolete by new adoptions and that are in need of, and have valid content justifying rebinding, to be rebound by entering into a contract with a bindery who will perform services for districts …

All textbooks purchased under the provisions of KRS 157.100 shall be the property of the state. Each superintendent shall be custodian of the books in the district. The superintendent shall issue the books to the various schools in the district according to an administrative regu…

The chief state school officer, subject to the approval of the Kentucky Board of Education, shall promulgate an administrative regulation for the disposal of textbooks and programs that will no longer be used for instruction. Each superintendent may make obsolete books and materi…

The chief state school officer, subject to the approval of the Kentucky Board of Education, shall promulgate an administrative regulation governing the sale of books and materials by superintendents to pupils, parents, or guardians of pupils attending the public schools of the st…

distributing books. No teacher or school employee engaged in the distribution of textbooks under the provisions of KRS 157.100 to 157.170 shall sell, distribute, or in any way deal in any kind of school furniture or supplies for use in any public schools.

specified facilities. The Kentucky Department of Education shall cooperate with the Kentucky Educational Collaborative for State Agency Children to distribute funds for textbooks, programs, and instructional materials for use by children placed in facilities and programs operated…

The General Assembly declares that all students of the Commonwealth have a right to an appropriate and quality education in the public schools and the right to achieve the capacities under KRS 158.645. The General Assembly challenges all school personnel to take the necessary act…

regulations. (1) The General Assembly declares that parents play a critical role in the education of their students. Parents have a major responsibility to assist in the education of their students and deserve respect and meaningful involvement in the decision-making process rela…

(1) The Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations to establish the criteria for the Kentucky Special Education Mentor Program that shall be implemented by July 1, 1999. The designation of "Kentucky Special Education Mentor" shall be given to the stat…

(1) There is created a dyslexia trust fund administered by the Kentucky Department of Education. (2) The dyslexia trust fund may receive appropriations, federal funds, contributions, gifts, and donations. (3) The purpose of the dyslexia trust fund shall be to finance grants to lo…

As used in KRS 157.200 to 157.290: (1) "Admissions and release committee" or "ARC" means a group of individuals that is responsible for developing, reviewing, or revising an individualized education program for an exceptional child or youth; (2) "Caseload" means the number of exc…