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158.7991 Legislative findings and declarations.
(1)
(2)
(a)
The General Assembly finds and declares that the integration of the arts
and foreign languages into the school curriculum benefits students by
increasing their motivation to learn; improves attendance; fosters
multicultural understanding; and develops neurological cognitive potential
through higher-order thinking skills, creativity, and problem solving.
Further, the General Assembly finds and declares that arts and foreign
language education can renew and invigorate faculty and can foster
greater parent and community participation and support.
(b) The General Assembly notes that it created a system of public education
that allows and assists all students to acquire certain capacities provided
under KRS 158.645, including communication skills necessary to function
in a complex and changing civilization and sufficient grounding in the arts
to enable each student to appreciate his or her cultural and historical
heritage.
(c) The General Assembly further notes that its goals for public schools
under KRS 158.6451 include: to develop students abilities to use basic
communication and mathematics skills for purposes and situations they
will encounter throughout their lives; to apply core concepts and principles
from mathematics, the sciences, the arts, the humanities, and social
studies; and to connect and integrate experiences and new knowledge
from all subject matter fields with what they have previously learned and
build on past learning experiences to acquire new information through
various sources.
It is the intent of the General Assembly in enacting KRS 158.7992 to address
the findings and declarations set out in subsection (1) of this section.
Effective:June 24, 2003
History: Created 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 35, sec. 1, effective June 24, 2003.
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