Education, Vocational

State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

A RESOLUTION urging the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Kentucky Department of Education, in partnership with the Secretary of State and education entities, to develop strategies and a timeline for improving Kentucky students’ knowledge and understanding of the constitutional republic of the United States of America and the democratic processes specified in the United States Constitution. [SR-237] [Education ] [Elections ]
Urge the Council of Postsecondary Education and the Kentucky Department of Education, in partnership with the Secretary of State and other education entities, to develop strategies and a timeline for improving Kentucky students’ knowledge and understanding of the constitutional republic of The United States of America and the democratic processes specified therein

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/14/2025

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State (Kentucky)
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.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise 2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025

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State (Kentucky)
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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025

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State (Kentucky)
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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/11/2025

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State (Kentucky)
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.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/05/2025

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State (Kentucky)
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 (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie Taken From Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 03/04/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT establishing the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program. [HB-732] [Education ] [Funding ] [Budget and Spending ] [Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to define terms; establish the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program to provide eligible classroom teachers with financial and technical support in purchasing school supplies; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to adopt policies and promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; require the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into contracts for an online commerce platform and to identify online school supplies vendors for the program; provide that the Act may (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Imes To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to eliminating nontraditional instruction. [HB-737] [Education ]
Amend KRS 158.070 to remove the authorization for nontraditional instruction.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Felicia Rabourn To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to school cooperation with patriotic organizations. [HB-603] [Education ] [Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "organization" as a federally recognized patriotic civic service organization that consists of or serves youths; permit an organization to request and require superintendents to provide an opportunity to provide information to students on school property during a school day.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky School for the Deaf Governance Task Force. [SCR-76] [Education ] [Children and Youth ]
Establish the Kentucky School for the Deaf Governance Task Force; establish duties and membership; direct the task force to study optimal governance models for the Kentucky School for the Deaf, including by a possible independent board of education.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe 2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to compulsory attendance. [SB-213] [Education ] [Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 159.030 to create an exemption for compulsory attendance in school for a child who is at least 16 years old and has obtained a High School Equivalency Diploma.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 02/27/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to scholarships. [SB-253] [Education ] [Student Loans ] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ]
Amend KRS 164.769 to remove repayment obligations from the teacher scholarship program; amend scholorship terms; provide that the scholarship amount shall not exceed the highest in-state tuition rate for a teacher preparation program at a Kentucky public university; amend KRS 164.786 to add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores to the dual credit scholarship program; require an approved dual credit course to be in the statewide general education core; permit up to 20 dual credit courses in a teacher and learning career pathway; provide (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/20/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to education. [SB-207] [Education ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish a procedure for a local board of education to submit a waiver request to the Kentucky Board of Education to waive a statute or administrative regulation; set the terms and limitations of a waivers; authorize the identification of schools of innovation and establish parameters for the status; establish procedures for the renewal of approved waivers; provide the conditions and procedure for rescinding waivers by the state board; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations to adopt necessary (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 113) on 03/27/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to public schools. [SB-5] [Education ]
Amend KRS 160.346 to include identification as a state intervention school when a school enters comprehensive support and improvement status and does not make annual improvement for two years or does not exit the status after three years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "state intervention school"; require the identification of state intervention schools with the 2027-2028 school year; establish the procedures for identification; require the commissioner of education to take management of the state intervention school and develop (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West Taken From Education (s) on 02/28/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the governance of the Kentucky School for the Deaf. [SB-214] [Education ] [Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 167.017 to set timelines for appointment of a search committee for the superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Deaf and appointment of the superintendent; require prioritization of candidates that will be locally available and commit to full-time duties as superintendent; preclude Department of Education employees or Board of Education members from being appointed as superintendent within one year of employment or membership.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe To Education (s) on 02/20/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to moral instruction. [HB-607] [Education ] [Children and Youth ] [Criminal Justice ] [Funding ] [Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 158.200 to detail process by which local boards of education may permit pupils to attend moral instruction; permit individuals or groups offering moral instruction to submit a request to a board and set requirements to be included in request; require superintendents to submit individuals providing transportation or moral instruction for criminal history and CA/N background checks; provide that students attending moral instruction are counted in average daily attendance for SEEK funding; repeal KRS 158.210, 158.220, 158.230, 158.240, 158.250, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to student attendance days and declaring an emergency. [HB-669] [Education ] [Crime ] [Public Safety ] [Children and Youth ] [Law Enforcement ]
Establish a waiver process and eligibility requirements for school districts to be granted credit for student attendance days missed during September 2024 due to dangers posed by criminal activity; EMERGENCY.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Smith 3rd Reading, Passed 85-9 on 03/07/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to virtual education. [SB-268] [Education ] [Technology and Innovation ]
Prohibit the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Board of Education, and the Kentucky Department of Education from establishing or implementing, or requiring a school district to implement, any cap, limitation, or restriction on enrollment for a virtual program; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education from reducing or withholding any funds due to a school district from the fund to Support Education Excellence in Kentucky based on the district's operation of a virtual program; (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills Passed Over And Retained In The Orders Of The Day on 03/05/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky Program. [SB-6] [Education ] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ]
Amend KRS 157.320 to include costs paid on behalf of districts in the definition of "Support Education Excellence in Kentucky"; define "distributable cost" and "on-behalf cost"; amend KRS 157.330 to include appropriations of on-behalf costs in the fund to support education excellence in Kentucky; amend KRS 157.360 to provide for the calculation of total cost of the program to support education excellence in Kentucky to include on-behalf costs and distributable costs; provide for the calculation; provide for the determination of on-behalf costs; (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/13/2025

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to postsecondary education students. [HB-568] [Education ] [Housing ] [Children and Youth ] [Human Services ] [Poverty ] [Student Loans ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms, require postsecondary education institutions to designate at least one employee in an appropriate department to serve as a liaison between the institution and a homeless student or student in care who is enrolled at the institution; detail responsibilities of the liaison, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the institution; require an institution to create a position to carry out the responsibilities of a liaison if the number of students experiencing homelessness or students in care (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025

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