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158.650 Definitions for KRS 158.680 to 158.710. (Expired)
As used in KRS 158.680 to 158.710, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Department" means the Department of Education;
(2) "Competencies" means the possession of skills, knowledge, and understandings to
the degree they can be demonstrated or measured;
(3) "Performance goals" means expected student and school district outcomes as
approved by the State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education;
(4) "Interim performance goal" means the specified amount of improvement the district
shall achieve toward meeting the performance goal agreed upon in the district
improvement plan;
(5) "Process goals" means systematic and orderly procedures, including specific actions
and time frames to be followed in achieving performance goals;
(6) "Standards" means acceptable levels of attainment school districts shall meet in
student, program, service, and operational performance as established in
administrative regulations adopted by the State Board for Elementary and
Secondary Education;
(7) "Educationally deficient school district" means a school district which does not
meet minimum standards in student, program, service, or operational performance;
(8) "Education development district" means an educationally deficient district which
fails to meet all process goals or to achieve all interim performance goals according
to the timelines established in the district improvement plan;
(9) "Annual performance report" means the report published annually by each local
board of education that presents the district's performance with regard to
performance goals as established by State Board for Elementary and Secondary
Education administrative regulations; and
(10) "District improvement plan" means the plan developed by a local school district in
consultation with the Department of Education, that establishes the process goals
and timelines for correcting identified deficiencies in the achievement of
performance goals and the interim performance goals. The plan shall be approved
by the local board of education and the State Board for Elementary and Secondary
Education.
History: Expired 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. 1, sec. 11, effective June 30, 1996. -Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. I. sec. 8, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended
1988 Ky. Acts ch. 357, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1984 Ky. Acts
ch. 65, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984; and ch. 347, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. -Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 13, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Created 1978 Ky.
Acts ch. 151, sec. 2, effective June 17, 1978.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/96). Because this statute has expired as
of June 30, 1996, under KRS 158.710(6), references to the State Board for
Elementary and Secondary Education within the statute have not been changed to the
Kentucky Board of Education as required by 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 362, sec. 6.
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