Education, Elementary And Secondary
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force. [SCR-147]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force; outline task force duties; establish membership; require the task force to meet monthly; and submit its findings and recommendations by December 1, 2025.
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A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Holly Bloodworth to the Kentucky Board of Education. [SR-145]
[Education ]
Confirm the reappointment of Holly Bloodworth to the Kentucky Board of Education for a term expiring April 14, 2028.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Juston C. Pate to the Kentucky Board of Education. [SR-151]
[Education ]
Confirm the appointment of Juston C. Pate to the Kentucky Board of Education for a term expiring April 14, 2028.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Efficient and Effective Districts Task Force. [SCR-131]
[Elections ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Efficient and Effective Districts Task Force; outline task force duties; require the task force to submit any recommendations and changes the task force may adopt by December 1, 2025; establish membership; require the task force to meet once per month; require the Legislative Research Commission to provide needed staff.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Sharon Porter Robinson to the Kentucky Board of Education. [SR-110]
[Education ]
Confirm the reappointment of Sharon Porter Robinson to the Kentucky Board of Education for a term expiring April 14, 2028.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Matthew Scott "Scottie" Collier to the Education Professional Standards Board. [SR-113]
[Education ]
Confirm the appointment of Matthew Scott "Scottie" Collier to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2, 2025, as Read Across America Day. [HR-72]
[Education ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Children and Youth ]
Recognize March 2, 2025, as Read Across America Day.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending Bowman Skunk Works for empowering Kentucky students for a future in the aviation industry. [SR-91]
[Aerospace ]
[Education ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Recognize and commend Bowman Skunk Works.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to virtual programs and declaring an emergency. [HB-784]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Define "virtual program"; place an enrollment cap on virtual programs for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year and the entirety of the 2025-2026 school year; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school buildings. [HB-807]
[Education ]
[Housing ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 162.055 to allow school property to be utilized for teacher and employee housing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to permit school boards or school district finance corporations to use land currently owned or newly leased to provide affordable housing options for teachers and school employees.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student financial aid. [HB-750]
[Student Loans ]
[Crime ]
[Education ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 164.767 to restrict eligibility for any program authorized under KRS 164.740 to 164.790 to exclude any individual who is a violent offender or who has been convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor and incarcerated individuals convicted of designated crimes; direct KHEAA to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the eligibility restrictions; amend KRS 164.7874 to delete the requirement that an eligible high school student and eligible postsecondary student not be a convicted felon for KEES eligibility
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education. [HB-711]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 164.001 to remove the definition of "committee" and "P-16 council"; amend KRS 164.013 to conform; amend KRS 164.020 to remove the Council on Postsecondary Education's ability to postpone approval of new programs due to an institution's unmet equal educational opportunity goals; amend KRS 164.0211 to attach the Board of Student Body Presidents to the Council on Postsecondary Education for administration and organization purposes; amend KRS 164.321 to require Senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointees to the boards of regents of the
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school resource officers. [HB-728]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 158.4414 to provide up to $20,000 to school districts for each school that employs an on-site full-time certified school resource officer; amend KRS 158.4431 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student health. [HB-809]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize a superintendent or principal to request assistance from a local health department to implement a health curriculum, comply with statutory program requirements, or provide additional health programming for students; provide example programs a local health department may offer; require instruction and programming provided in partnership with a local health department be subject to the curricular requirements of KRS 160.345.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to salaries of school administrators. [HB-752]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 160.350 to require, beginning July 1, 2025, any new or renewal contract of a superintendent shall include a provision to review and adjust the total salary paid and benefits provided at the end of every two contract years; limit the total salary and benefits of a school district superintendent to three times the median Rank I salary on the school district's salary schedule if no less than 50 percent of students in the district are proficient or above, and to two times the median if less than 50 percent are proficient or above; provide
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school mapping. [HB-777]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[National Security ]
Amend KRS 158.442, 39G.010, and 158.4443 to require that administration of the School Mapping Data Program be the responsibility of the Office of Homeland Security instead of the Center for School Safety.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to career and technical education. [HB-758]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 157.069 to apportion supplemental funds for career and technical education to be 75 percent for enrollment-based funding and 25 percent for incentive-based funding; modify incentives to permit two incentives per student; require "concentrator" status as the first incentive before eligibility for a second incentive.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health education. [HB-706]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-8]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 158.645 to modify language on core capacities, specify the intent of K-5 education, and define terms; amend KRS 156.070 to give the state board the responsibility for adopting or rejecting the state academic standards, adopting or rejecting instructional materials collections, setting a timeline for adoption updates, and ensuring alignment of academics across the state; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to deconstruct the approved academic standards and provide free guides to districts
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interscholastic extracurricular activities. [HB-724]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Sports ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize participation in a public school interscholastic extracurricular activity by an at-home private school student; establish criteria for participation; require a parent, guardian, or teacher of an at-home private school student participating in a public school interscholastic activity to verify the student's academic progress; declare a public school student who does not make academic progress at a public school and withdraws and enters an at-home private school program ineligible for participation
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