2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 158 - CONDUCT OF SCHOOLS -- SPECIAL PROGRAMS 158.782 Guidelines to provide highly skilled education assistance to schools and districts -- Professional leave for selected employee -- Appropriate training -- Review of paperwork requirements.
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158.782 Guidelines to provide highly skilled education assistance to schools
and districts -- Professional leave for selected employee -- Appropriate
training -- Review of paperwork requirements.
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After receiving the advice of the Office of Education Accountability; the School
Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council; and the National
Technical Advisory Panel on Assessment and Accountability, the Kentucky
Board of Education shall promulgate administrative regulations in conformity
with KRS 158.6471 and 158.6472 and KRS Chapter 13A, to set forth the
guidelines for providing highly skilled education assistance to schools and
school districts. The program shall be designed to support improved teaching
and learning and may include, but not be limited to, establishing the following:
(a) Criteria for identifying successful strategies of assistance;
(b) Policies and procedures for providing education assistance, which may
include training, making assignments, employing certified personnel, and
setting salaries that may include supplements; and
(c) Duties of those providing education assistance, which may include
personnel evaluation and recommendations concerning retention,
dismissal, or transfer of personnel.
A district employee selected to provide assistance shall be granted
professional leave pursuant to KRS 161.770 though the time may exceed two
(2) years if determined by the state board to be necessary. A certified
employee shall not lose any employee benefits as a result of a special
assignment.
The Department of Education shall provide appropriate training for the persons
selected to provide assistance that shall include but not be limited to training to
strengthen the school-based decision making process.
The Kentucky Board of Education shall annually review the paperwork required
of schools receiving highly skilled certified education assistance. It shall assure
that paperwork requirements are kept to a minimum, relevant to the needs of
the school, and are directly related to improving teaching and learning.
Effective:July 13, 2004
History: Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 188, sec. 3, effective July 13, 2004. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 598, sec. 14, effective April 14, 1998. -- Amended
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 362, sec. 6, effective 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts
ch. 408, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1994. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 476, Pt. I,
sec. 6, effective July 13, 1990.
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